Untitled (2015)

Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York (the USA).

Bronze.

This is a bronze sculpture, consisting of uneven turns of wire. The artist found this material on a farm he bought in Martha, Texas. The wire was commonly used by farmers to make corral fences. The three-dimensional visual image indicates a random but organic form. According to critic Mark Prince, the sculpture “is teasingly similar to the figure but is not entirely figurative”; this emphasizes the constant characterization of most of the works of Wool. In this sense, the author defines the very condition of the sculpture as the desire to imagine the absence of something specific. The critic adds that Christopher Wool “turns this formalism into a statement of the loss of everything, first of all, the loss of meaning”.