NYAB Event - Seth Wulsin "Animas"

Seth Wulsin "Animas"

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Seth Wulsin works with space, light and time. A vast number of his profoundly eloquent pieces are large- scale, site-specific sculptural works. Combining surface and depth, the layered fiberglass and spray paint installations explore the spatial and emotional potential of portraiture. The works are comprised of various screen grids that combine to produce ethereal, three-dimensional visages.
In 2006, the artist created 16 Tons, an eighteen storey sculptural installation in the Cárcel de Caseros. An Argentinean prison notorious for the brutal conditions in which its inmates were kept, the almost total lack of sunlight meant that many of the prisoners suffered from acute vitamin D deficiencies. Using sixteen tons of glass, Wulsin chiseled forty-eight human faces and installed them in the window hollows. The shifting light of day created endless effects on the faces gazing out towards the street. Wulsin’s technical　mastery and sophisticated, sensitive approach to conceptual art sets him far apart from his contemporaries. John Beardsley, a senior lecturer in landscape architecture at Harvard University, commended Wulsin on the installation, saying ‘the sculpture engages with history in a critical way’.