2014: Seven Thousand Cords – by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle

Seven Thousand Cords – by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle

2014

Steel and Wood

Seven Thousand Cords [After Beuys] by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle is a contemporary response to Joseph Beuys’s renowned social sculpture/ecological project 7000 Oaks, composed of seven cords of wood as distinct sculptural elements. For more, read the SAIC website entry,  “A Lived Practise”..   click here..

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2014: Seven Thousand Cords – by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle

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2014: Seven Thousand Cords – by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle

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The above image shows Manglano-Ovalle’s sculpture, entitled “Seven Thousand Cords (after Beuys), 2014 – ongoing” exhibited in the north lawn of the Farnsworth House, Plano, IL. The piece incorporates wood from the Farnsworth House property.

The installation at Farnsworth House was part of “Architecture + Art: Inspiration Amplified”; a collaboration between the National Trust for Historic Preservation and United States Artists to create a public program for the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The program is the presentation of works by two United States Artists Fellows that have been inspired by the Farnsworth House and its landscape. The two artists are Mary Ellen Childs, a musical composer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, a sculptor based in Evanston, Illinois.

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2014: Seven Thousand Cords – by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle / exhibited at Sullivan Gallery

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2014: Seven Thousand Cords – by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle

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2014: Seven Thousand Cords – by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle

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2014: Seven Thousand Cords – by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle

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2014: Seven Thousand Cords – by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle

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2014: Seven Thousand Cords – by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle

2009: Gravity is a force to be reckoned with by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle

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Gravity is a force to be reckoned with – by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle

2009

Structural steel, wood and mixed-media

12″ x 12″ x 30′

Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle’s project Gravity Is a Force to be Reckoned With, is based upon Mies van der Rohe’s uncompleted project, the House with Four Columns (1951), a square structure open to view on all four sides through glass walls. In Manglano-Ovalle’s work, the house is constructed at approximately half scale and inverted, the ceiling of the original becoming the sculpture’s floor, the floor becoming the ceiling, and all interior elements such as Mies-designed furniture and partition walls installed upside down.

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2009: Gravity is a force to be reckoned with by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle

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2009: Gravity is a force to be reckoned with – by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle

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2009: Gravity is a force to be reckoned with by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle

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