In the section of Bourriaud's Postproduction entitled The Flea Market: The Dominant Art Form of the Nineties, Bourriaud makes mention of sculptor Jason Rhoades. Of Rhoade's piece, Perfect World, he remarks "The space of the work is urban space, traversed at a certain speed: the objects that endure are therefore necessarily enormous or reduced to the size of the car's interior, which takes on the role of an optical tool allowing one to select forms." (Bourriaud, 30). I am particularly interested in the the role of the car as an optical tool-- especially when compared to other man made optical tools such as cameras. Yet while I find this comment compelling, I question the qualitative difference between selection and creation. Although I was unable to find adequate images of Perfect World, I was able to find images of other pieces by Rhoades, such as Broken Audio Tour. I feel that work concerning itself only with raw selection rather than reinterpretation, is less interesting and of less artistic merit than work by artists who use such objects as building blocks rather than final products. A good example of an artist who uses objects as building blocks is Sarah Sze, a sculptor who uses a vast array of commercial materials to create intricate worlds.
Sarah Sze, Boesky 1, Mixed Media, 2005
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