Ruimte : Space

from 2D illusion to 3D occupation of space

IBDP

by Yvette Poorter
2016

02 March

Illusion of space (2D representation)

Size and Position

Overlapping
Repoussoir
Light and dark
Detail and Texture
Perspective: Linear
Perspective: Atmospheric
Colour

From the illusion of space (2D) to

the occupation of space (3D)

Lis Rhodes Light Music 1975 Photo: Tate Lis Rhodes Light Music
is two projected beams that traverse one another in the space
between the two projections.

POSITIVE and NEGATIVE space

Left top: Stonehenge (UK) built between 3000 BC to 2000 BC.

Right: The Grand Canyon (Arizona, USA) 17 million years ago

Top left and right: A cave house built into

the village of Vals in the Swiss Alps by
Christian Muller Architects and SeARCH.

Left: Anish Kapoor Cloud Gate

(stainless steel plates, 2004).

Stonehenge (UK) 3000-2000 BC.

Pyramids of Giza (Egypt) 25602540 BC.

ADDITIVE technique

The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the state of Arizona in
the United States at least 17 million years ago.

Film still from: Loose Fit: Table Beggar

Abbie Stephens (2011)

SUBTRACTIVE
technique

From the website Stone Project, no artist or title

mentioned with this image (2007-2011).

Sol LeWitt Incomplete Open Cube (baked enamel on aluminum, 1974)

DEFINING and ORGANISING space

Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty (1970)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGZDY9mfua4

Nancy Holt Sun Tunnels (concrete, 1976)

INTERIOR and EXTERIOR space

Walter De Maria Lightning Field (400 stainless steel poles, 1977). Photograph: John Cliett

MATERIALS:
COLOUR,
DENSITY and
VOLUME

MATERIALS:

Above left: Joseph Beuys Fat Corner (fat, 1963)

Above right: Joseph Beuys Felt Corner (felt, 1963)

Right: Anish Kapoor 1000 names (wood, gesso, pigment, 1980-1981)

COLOUR
and VOLUME

Left: Marc Quinn, Sky (human placenta and umbilical cord, stainless steel, perspex and refrigeration
equipment, 2006)
Right: Marc Quinn Self (artists blood, stainless steel, perspex and refrigeration equipment, 2001)

Rachel Whiteread House (concrete, 1993)

Mona Hatoum Impenetrable, (barbed wire, 2009)

MATERIALS:
DENSITY and VOLUME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH-groCeKbE

Francis Als, Zcalo, May 22, 1999, Mexico City, D. F. 1999. Single screen DVD projection with sound
track. Variable dimensions, 12 hour duration, edition of 4.

VOCABULARY and IDEAS of 3D space:

time
positive/negative space
additive/subtractive techniques
defining and arranging space
interior/exterior space
materials: colour, density, volume