Alex Roskin, Roco Console, USA, 2017

Alex Roskin, Roco Console, USA, 2017
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Alex Roskinโ€™sย Roco Consoleย reflects modernist and primitivist influences.

The consoleโ€™s sculptedย shape resembles an anatomical form. Theย top, cast in bronze, is polished to a mirror finish. The baseย of the table, bowed and sinuous, fluidly extends to meet hand-carved walnut legs. Theย console is designed to assume a rich patina as it ages.

Roskinโ€™s works blend functional design with modernist sculptural references. A natural successor of innovative artists such as Richard Serra, Jean Arp, and Constantin Brancusi, Roskinโ€™s cast bronze, stainless steel, and carved wood worksย reflects the artistโ€™s modernist and primitive influences. Beginning with a series of quick sketches, Roskin captures the movement of a basic form. By sculpting in foam and wood Roskin translates that movement into a structural model that is then 3D scanned so that it can then be cast in bronze, aluminum or steel, and finished with carved wood elements. His works often feature a mammalian physicality with heaving sinuous forms and legs that extend from the body in a bowed fashion.

Rejecting outright anthropomorphic mimicry in favor of subtle, sculpted muscular forms, Roskin notes: โ€œI try with each piece to create a stance and a presence, some with more contrapposto. I aim to give each piece a feeling it is inhaling or ready to make a move. I try to steer clear of the decorative, but rather to draw on mass, volume, line, negative space, and my love of materials and the craft of working with them.โ€

Bronze, Walnut

33 1/2h x 46w x 12d in
85.09h x 116.84w x 30.48d cm

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