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Capital<\/em>\u00a0is a sculpture made of medium density, material composed of medium-density wood fiber panels.<\/p>\n

The sculpture is formed by eight elements assembled together, with the two ending ones with a semi-cylindrical shape, while others have a parallelepiped shape. Each element is made of a structure in plywood lined with medium density panels. The upper and the lower margins of each element have moldings. The visible surface is smooth and homogeneous, in a beige-ocher color. At the center there are only the two elements of semi-cylindrical shape. Grenville Davey mainly uses materials already tested, or that garantuee a duration in time. Capital can remember a table but also a model of an urban landscape, or a loaf of bread, a curved side and one straight.<\/p>\n

Excerpts from the technical interview to Grenville Davey:<\/span><\/p>\n

“There are common materials in any work that I produce,<\/strong> works that share the same formal guidelines.\u00a0It is a way to communicate something through the installation.\u00a0Often this relationship is only suggested but the audience can get it, the law in the workplace and in the authoritativeness of the sculptures, their strong physical presence reinforces this impression and connection.\u00a0It is a way of making your life difficult! <\/span>“<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

“My works are unique, but there are shared details. <\/span>The common scale is the human being, the surface is always inert, industrial production.\u00a0<\/span><\/em>I do a lot of things on my own and I ask for help when I need engineers and carpenters, building with them a close dialogue.\u00a0I have a couple of people, technicians I have a long working relationship with, this is important as we understand each another. <\/em>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI had one or two works damaged beyond repair by an irresponsible shipping!\u00a0You should always try to make sense of the distribution when transposrting heavy loads, it should avoid air bubbles or store material on material in transit.\u00a0In one occasion a job has been commented on by insurers as more expensive to repair than to have it done again from the beginning! \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe work is not like a machine that can be repaired and repainted, there is a tension in the material that is inherent to the original design.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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The interview was carried out within the project <\/span>\u00a0Interview with art<\/a>,<\/strong> by Benedetta Bodo Albaretto in collaboration with the\u00a0<\/span>Center of Conservation and Restoration of Venaria Reale<\/a><\/strong> and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo,<\/strong><\/a> Turin.<\/p>\n

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Capital\u00a0is a sculpture made of medium density, material composed of medium-density wood fiber panels. The sculpture is formed by eight elements assembled together, with the two ending ones with a semi-cylindrical shape, while others have a parallelepiped shape. Each element is made of a structure in plywood lined with medium density panels. The upper and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":173,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1993","opera","type-opera","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectmarta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera\/1993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectmarta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectmarta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/opera"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projectmarta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera\/1993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365,"href":"https:\/\/projectmarta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera\/1993\/revisions\/2365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectmarta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectmarta.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}