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Die Aufgaben der Brueder at HINTERLAND 2009

DIE AUFGABEN DER BRUEDER
Sculptural Works by Bradley Borthwick

Bradley Borthwick's sculptural involvement is an ongoing investigation of conceptual and material aspects of cultural artifacts. He is interested in how a range of formal and material references evokes the idea of the artifact; this evocation causes him to question his placement as an artist within contemporary Western culture.

His work is dedicated to the working of materials in an effort to develop a sensitivity and a reverence for traditional notions of endurance in physical form. The rediscovery of works in a temporally distant context provokes a mythology of the object and its maker, especially if the mark of the maker predominates the material character of the remnant. Simply stated, he compares traditions of fabrication from earlier commercial contexts to traditions upheld in the making of works of art. Borthwick's interest specifically rests with a pre-industrial aesthetic in utilitarian objects that are, in later times, often viewed as art.

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Die Aufgaben der Brueder at HINTERLAND 2009