Impression transformation icetarget to target on canvas from MT.3.2.
Duration: 40″
Melting Targets No.3 is an improved version of the works Melting Targets No.1 and No.2, in which a metal mould with frozen targets was placed on a canvas. In this third version a contraption of metal rods is put up over the canvas. The frozen targets are connected to the rods and the whole construction turns around its axis.
The improvement lies in the fact that the melting and turning ice targets drip and transform to a new, big target that gradually grows on the canvas underneath.
The installation holds several possibilities for variation: the viscosity of the paint can change, or the gradient of the canvas, the order in which the melting process happens and the distance between the melting targets and the canvas.
If the installation is set up in an exhibition, the painting process can be continued live on the eight canvases.
The meaning of ‘Melting Goals No. 3’ remains the same as in the first two versions. In these works, there is an additional art historical reference to Jasper Johns’ ‘target works’.
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