Summary
Morceau Accrochant is a hanging mobile installation consisting of 482 strands of string and silk-screened paper suspended from the ceiling to create a three-dimensional volume of dense colour and, what the artist has called, ‘an exploration of movement contained’ (quoted in Alex Farquharson, 'About the Exhibition', http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/detail/exhibition_id/63, accessed 9 June 2010). Each strand of polyester string is a composite of a long yellow portion to which a shorter red length is knotted. Five or six discs of colour-saturated paper are threaded onto each red section, creating a flurried mass that recalls both the applied and decorative arts as well as the Bauhaus functionality of the architect Walter Gropius (1883–1969). The variously-sized discs are two separate pieces adhered to create a bi-coloured unit, the top part of which has had a radial section excised… (read more)
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