Word: spatiality
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...sculptural face of a modern city playground rarely gets more monumental than a jungle gym. Its rectilinear ziggurat of steel lattice is a joy toy for kids, and a spatial bore. But then, who considers a playground worthy of a sculptor's talents? At least, New York city's housing authority did, and let Costantino Nivola, 53, see how he could improve on the blight of monkey bars, slides, and swings that make play grounds across the nation look like a titanic display of naked plumbing...
...eternally true what is only historically conditioned. He suggests that Christianity abandon the notion of the Trinity, which has now become a pagan tritheism instead of what the church fathers intended to say. To avoid confusion of the "packaging" with the "product," Pike would do away with all spatial images of God, everything that suggests a distinction between the sacred and the secular...
...Architecture and dance can be very similar in spatial and rhythmic elements as well as design," Miss Kirpich explained. She added, however, that while the dance will not attempt to reproduce the building which inspired its creation, the two art forms will be recognizably similar in general atmosphere...
...hover and float* above their pedestals, attached by almost imperceptible nylon strings. The effect is playful and magical-rather like Collie himself, who combines the hot-eyed zeal of a young Merlin with the twinkle-eyed grin of a boy with a toy. Collie, 25, calls his works spatial-absolutes: spatial because they are floating in space, absolute because "the true essence of a shape, its 100% value" can be fully experienced and appreciated only when it is lifted from its base...
Collie's spatial-absolutes represent a marriage of technology and art, but science is clearly the stronger partner. Yet Collie insists that he is no technological faddist catering to a novelty-hungry art public that is ready to pay $1,000 to $3,500 for his floating sculpture. In his obsession with simplicity and freedom of form, he argues that his shapes "derive from Brancusi. If he were alive today, he would have released his Bird in Space and freed the Fish to swim. He simply lacked the technology that we have today. His work implies flight." Collie promises...