Black Wall 1959
Painted wood
2632 x 2165 x 648mm
Louise Nevelson’s Black Wall 1959 is a sculptural assemblage comprised of twenty-four wooden boxes arranged in the style for which the artist would become famous.
Made from materials found in the street, Nevelson’s early ‘walls’ are further explored in this In Focus through her habits as a collector and their connections to the Manhattan neighbourhood of Kips Bay in which she lived.
https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/in-focus/black-wall-louise-nevelson
Excerpts & Reflections
# ‘Artists are born collectors’
# By cataloguing and classifying, the collection could thereby be seen to yield the knowledge and understanding conventionally associated with taxonomic systems, which order, rank and define.
# We don’t have to worry about what to collect, when to collect. Just do it.
# Develop collecting habits and transform them into an aesthetic mode, leading to the production of artworks.
More images of her artworks
Louise Nevelson – Black Zag I, 1968
Find more ➡️ http://www.louisenevelsonfoundation.org/