Robert Barnstone
Body Shells, 2020
NSW, Australia & USA
corten steel
gene: 325 x 90 x 45cm
rosa: 300 x 100 x 50cm
Body Shells by Robert Barnstone is a pair of sculptures that recall the body, vessels of containment and shell forms. Made with corten steel, they are scaled to the body and have been formed with figurative geometry in mind. They suggest the form of a shell or of an arthropod that has moulted and shed its exoskeleton. While they have geometric skin, they are also hollow, empty containers creating voids that prompt inquisitiveness about the containment of space itself.
Barnstone, an artist, architect and professor suggests; "The void offers access to the space of the imagination. By definition, the void is always an unknown space. A contained space is a void until it is filled with something. But before it becomes occupied, it is resonant with a second presence".
