Bosco Sodi

Clay Cubes

Mark Gisbourne editor Dakin Hart editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Hatje Cantz

Published:17th Feb '17

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Bosco Sodi cover

Working with nature: clay and chance

It starts with a simple idea: massive cubes of clay, half a meter high. The sculptures of Mexican artist Bosco Sodi (*1970 in Mexico City), cubes of fired clay stacked in high columns, ought to have exploded while being fired due to the extreme heat released in the material: sand, earth, and water. The richly illustrated publication on Sodi’s Clay Cubes explores the course of his experiment. He worked for several months creating the cubes, from compounding the material through layering and forming to drying and firing them in a kiln built especially for this purpose. Piled up to columns in the exhibition, they resemble the proportions of the human body and at the same time create an architecture reduced to the essential. Each cube bears the traces of the work process, following Sodi’s typical approach: the process of trying out and arriving as a result whose appearance he may influence, but not foresee.

ISBN: 9783775742771

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1280g

148 pages