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Elizabeth TurkPassage 12014-22
2014-22
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Elegant and understated, the beauty of calligraphic scripts has resonated across cultures and time. Elizabeth Turk: Written in Stone marks the change caused by technological communication – the ubiquitous keyboard and AI – and seeks to question the transformation of everyday handwriting and the human experience. What happens when the curved lines of a scripted passage no longer hold meaning, or even exist? Or when the generations of tomorrow merely glance at a handwritten letter, fail to understand it, cannot decipher it, and simply move on, losing its nuances to history? Through this new series, Elizabeth Turk conveys this fundamental shift with unmatched grace and technical dexterity.
Marble, a memorial stone, is Turk’s chosen material to convey this shift. As Turk writes in the catalogue essay, “For me, an aimless curved line with its own tenuous link to a greater geological story is the ideal metaphor. I sculpt an endless line that leads nowhere… defying the notion of stone as a solid, everlasting monument. There is an obvious paradox in a memorial of something as ephemeral and anthropocentric as script created with a solid, seemingly permanent rock gilded with a mineral, gold leaf.” Over the ten years that Turk has been making these works, fewer and fewer children have learned how to read or write script. Turk calls this a “quiet extinction, one that is happening every day.” Long after the changes of this moment take place, these sculptures will remind us of the strength, endurance, and lasting importance of what we have left behind.
- Creator:Elizabeth Turk (1961, American)
- Creation Year:2014-22
- Dimensions:Height: 6 in (15.24 cm)Width: 12 in (30.48 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:Seller: M 10063D.2801stDibs: LU2313221042
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Located in New York, NY
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Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
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