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Leonardo Drew in "Investigation"Preview
In this preview from the Art21’s Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 7 episode, Investigation, artist Leonardo Drew is shown at work in his Brooklyn, New York studio in 2013, surrounded by multiple sections of in-progress sculptures positioned throughout the floors and walls of his studio.
“They speak to one another,” says the artist, describing the interconnected relationships amongst each of the sections. “A lot of times I can rip things out…and the longer the work hangs around, the better off it is.”
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Although often mistaken for accumulations of found objects, Leonardo Drew’s sculptures are instead made of “brand new stuff”—materials such as wood, rusted iron, cotton, paper, and mud—that he intentionally subjects to processes of weathering, burning, oxidation, and decay. Whether jutting out from a wall or traversing rooms as freestanding installations, his pieces challenge the architecture of the space in which they’re shown. Never content with work that comes easily, Drew constantly reaches beyond “what’s comfortable” and charts a course of daily investigation, never knowing what the work will be about but letting it find its way, and asking, “What if….”
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