If we divided the process of a work of art, broadly speaking we can find three stages: the most creative one in which you get the ideas, after that, you can produce it, make it physical or real; and finally, you try to show it to the world.
Always, I wanted to be involved in an art process that wasn’t mine. I wanted to know more about how the process worked; from coming up with the idea to the installation in the gallery. I am an intern in A.I.R. Gallery and I was working in the Sylvia Netzer’s studio.
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First, It is intimate moment of the artist, so I have the opportunity to ask the artist directly.
Do you follow any method to create?
“My method to get to the final idea was through the drawings. I draw a lot before to get to the idea of necklace.”
How do you get the idea of those new pieces?
“Last year I had a show where the pieces where hanging from the ceiling and I thought about making the next pieces hang from the wall. I don’t like the pedestal for sculpture because I find them very old fashioned. They require that each piece be thought about very carefully (size, shape, proportions…).”
What are your influences?
“My influence was the film “Auntie Mame” by Morton DaCosta, 1958. It is about a rich eccentric woman and her wild style of life. She wants to decorate her house and she hung the furniture from the ceiling and it could lift like an elevator.”
During two months, we were working on the process for Sylvia Netzer’s exhibit for A.I.R. Gallery, “Redux”. I worked with her during the production stage.
The necklaces are made with clay, but the clay process wasn’t typical.
“I was very under time pressure, then I decided to use molds”. We made something like clay blankets and we adapted them to the molds (we had several, that is why each ball of the necklace was different).
The next stage was the installation.
The installation was insane. Sylvia wanted to hang the pieces like a necklace on the wall. Each ball was very heavy to hang in a usual way (and we only had two days). After all, all the works look amazing.
“During the install I felt very nervous and anxious.”
How do you feel when you see them? Do you feel that you need to build a relationship with their subjects or do you need to remain detached?
“I still feel nervous, I am happy, I love the show. I feel a relationship. When I have a show, I feel very exposed. I feel my work is very personal; often, psychological and sexual, and relating with biology and science.”
What perception do you think the observer has?
“A lot of them feel like “what is this??” “That doesn’t mean anything” but it means so much for me. I am pleased to be able to make what I imagine.”
At the end, I have a quote, “Only when one approaches the work of art non-judgmentally does it begin to reveal the artist’s personality and creativity and their relationship.’’
- Donald Kuspit, “The End of Art”
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