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Seed, Helix, Miroir d’eau
1996
Tom Carr
Sculpture
As a worthy descendant of those great “artist-cum-engineers” who, from Leonardo da Vinci to Vladimir Tatlin, invariably combined science with artistic creation, Tom Carr developed the recurrent themes of his works in his earliest offerings: a play of geometric forms in space and an exploration of the concepts of balance and perspective. Discs, polygons helicoids and other spirals are the components of his elegant, complex “machines” that attest to both his love of exact science and his fascination for cosmology and formal symbolism. Installed in the Agora of the Société Générale headquarters, the colossal Seed, Helix, Mirror of Water creates a dynamic ascending movement.
Sculptor.
Even in Tom Carr’s early work – stairs, fortifications and monumental towers of archaic or cyclopean inspiration – it is easy to make out his major themes: how simple architectural shapes appear in space and the ongoing question of balance and perspective. In the tradition that stretches from Leonardo da Vinci to Vladimir Tatlin, his creations draw their elegance from the amazing study of exact science and symbolic shapes.
Like the monumental work installed in Agora, the works presented here recall the treaties of perspective from the Renaissance period and the sketches of machines by Leonardo da Vinci. They play on the laws of gravity. The engineer’s precise calculations combine with the light touch of the artist’s hand.
Miro Foundation in Barcelona, Contemporary Art Museum in Madrid, Outdoor Sculpture Installations in Graz, Austria, San José in California and Barcelona.
Artworks of
Tom Carr
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