Kaiser Suidan Large Ceramic Cubes Mixed Media Ceramic Dimensions Variable (5.5′′ x 5.5′′ each)
Sculpture in the contemporary art world is as diverse in process as it is in materials, continually pushing the boundaries of possibility. Todays artists range from using innovative materials and computer aided design to upholding traditional or classical methods and materials often mixing the two in their processes. They also having the ability to create sculpture in the round or free-standing such as statues and relief sculpture or wall sculpture as it is so often classified today by the degree of projection from the wall into low or high relief. Stone, ceramic or metal bronze casting, steel orwood are just a few of the many diverse materials. Painting techniques including tempera, oilpainting, gilding, house paint, aerosol, enamel and sandblasting land since the 1960s, acrylics and other plastics have been used.
In art history Pablo Picasso’s sculptures included bicycle parts. Alexander Calder and other modernists made spectacular use of painted steel. Andy Goldsworthy made his unusually ephemeral sculptures from almost entirely natural materials in natural settings. Today artists such as Kaiser Suidan create exciting commercial and residential installations andwall sculptures. Utilizing traditional techniques of mold-making, clay and ceramic glaze combined with geometry, colors that pop and decal work, his ability to merge 2-D elements of pattern and repetition with his 3-D relief giving way to a unique presentation on the wall. In his artist statement he explains “My recent work is a study in order and structure, based on the simplest of geometric forms. There is a great deal of freedom involved in the imposition of strict rules – within the structure of the grid, the confines of the cube, spheres and jacks. There is thepossibility of endless variation” I address the ordered system of a grid through the play of opposite words and color schemes, which give way to the free expression of sensuality, movement, and energy.”