Franz West Double Ring 2004photograph by Pamela Crimmins
The absurdist quality of Mr. West's work derives mostly from their process. They obviously start life as the sculptural equivalent of doodles, childlike plasticine sausage improvisations. And whatever form or sensation they come to resemble in the blown-up rendering, they retain the qualities of the pinched and the provisional. Even when they get big (some are the height of a family house), they are never monumental. Belligerently whimsical, as cuddly as beach toys, they are happy to seem - literally - inflated.
The absurdist quality of Mr. West's work derives mostly from their process. They obviously start life as the sculptural equivalent of doodles, childlike plasticine sausage improvisations. And whatever form or sensation they come to resemble in the blown-up rendering, they retain the qualities of the pinched and the provisional. Even when they get big (some are the height of a family house), they are never monumental. Belligerently whimsical, as cuddly as beach toys, they are happy to seem - literally - inflated.
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