"My approach tends to be from experiments. I need the challenge. If I know how to do something well, there's no need to do it all the time because it becomes a little monotonous. So I like to find a challenge."
"berwici pici pa" (2004)
"berwici pici pa," 2004
Cedar and graphite, 8 x 86 2/3 x 5 1/2 feet. Public commission for the Bloomberg Building, New York.
© Ursula von Rydingsvard, courtesy the artist and Galerie Lelong, New York.
Cedar and graphite, 8 x 86 2/3 x 5 1/2 feet. Public commission for the Bloomberg Building, New York.
© Ursula von Rydingsvard, courtesy the artist and Galerie Lelong, New York.
"‘Berwici pici pa’ is loaded with lips. (I call it a lip because, of all the parts, it’s the only one that sort of hangs loose toward the front. I could almost call it a kind of apron, but that wouldn’t be quite right. I think lip is closer to it.) The piece has a very flat back, but it’s got these voluptuous lips that come in and scoot out in a way that’s very different from the way my flat pieces function. This is very primitive voluptuous wandering. That’s what I wanted, a procession that you go through, when you enter the building. It’s a kind of procession that the sculpture makes with the people as they walk in."
- Ursula von Rydingsvard
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