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Nausica PASTRA : Points of Reference by Emmanuel Mavromatis 2 / 6 |
This was also the idea behind the artist's
own text, published in the same exhibition
catalog, in which she wrote.. "In this work the methodological
hypothesis concerns the state of the Subsequent
cases and the evolution of the organization of
special conditions and moments which are
created within the system...., either in terms of
induction (analysis, abstraction) or in terms of
deduction (relationship, composition). Since both
of these processes are interdependent, each
deduction is the
starting point for a new induction, and the
induction which is produced is the starting point for
another deduction."
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Thus, during the following years there was a
systematic, parallel development of her drawing
and sculptural work in two simultaneous
directions analytical and compositional. This
parallel development was examined by the artist
herself and continued to be employed in the spirit
of the original methodology, as in the Rhythms and Relationships
from 1988, exhibited in a solo exhibition at the
Gallery in Rotterdam (1989) and the French
Institute of Thessaloniki the same year. There was
a noted change in these works: a morphological
change in the drawing
(and the sculptural) programs in which the original analytical and synthetic relationships of the
square and the circle was replaced by the study
of the relatlonships between these two things, as
they would be the subsequent object arising from
the study of these original relationships.
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Série Analogiques 1
Synectron, 1968 - 1976
7 elements, in blue and red painted metal, each 90 x 45 x 30 cm
Salon de la Jeune Sculpture, Paris 1970
These works were refined and analyzed in a
series of successive solo exhibitions:
Rhythms and Relationships at Gallery 7 in
Athens, in 1991 and 1994; at Saint-Etienne and
Bologna, in 1992, and finally in Thessaloniki at
the Mylos Art Center where
Rhythms and Relationships T.E. was shown in
1995.
One of the drawings in Rhythms and
Relationships,
from the series Analogiques 1, was published
in
Heads & Legs (Liege 1990)10,
along with the works
of eleven other international artists representative of
this movement.
Here it is germane to remark that Rhythms and Relationships (the first specific reference to which was made by the artist in the 1976 catalog, characterizing them as, "three analytical drawings/sections of the asymmetrical composition no 1 ") marked the beginning of a qualitative interruption or, more precisely, a rupture in this system's interior. Also, Rhythms and Relationships originally analyzed (and later described) over more specifically the most definitive structures arising out of the preceding analysis. In the beginning these were the relationships of the specific, tangible objects that she was working on, the geometric figures in the drawings or sculptures. |
Série Analogiques 1
Synectron, 1968 - 1976 Blue and red painted wood each 270 x 135 x 90 cm Salon de la Jeune Sculpture, Paris 1970 |
But while the study of the relationships is the
precondition for the synthesis-which in its turn
establishes and makes use of these relationships-
the beforehand analysis is what confirms and
acknowledges these relationships, making them
legitimate. Thus we find that the analysis itself
constitutes a kind of origin (a condition), and
always a preceding one. Later, Pastra went on to
examine the relationships within it as well as the
new relationships arising from it. For this reason,
at each stage the corresponding entities in
Rhythms and Relationships tend to become
independent. They reveal and project the characteristic kinds of relationships
governing this particular phase, as well as the
rhythms by which these kinds of relationships
are organized among themselves and which
designate their particular period, their ability to
recur. Thus Rhythms and Relationships
also appear as a typology of the most inevitable
relationships, successive in terms of each stage
of relationships. |
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