Eye, Heart, Diaphragm and Adrenal. MDF, wood and paint, 65x325x45cm,
David Fusco’s works are distillations from an abundance of slowly organised material, rather than absolute, revealed statements. The pieces are realised as partial sequences, in balanced groups; similes of common experiences composed of objects which are re-manufactures, hybrids and inventions; instruments, tools and containers. They backtrack experience, holding and revealing memory and sensation.
Two particular references have been part of the development of Eye, Heart, Diaphragm and Adrenal. Descartes’ ‘cut-away’ diagrams of the eye, in which he explains, through hydraulics, how the human senses function; and Robert Fludd’s Microcosmic man, whose viscera are spread above him as a schematic diagram - re-aligned in correspondence with heavenly phenomena. In this piece, Fusco uses forms and similes on several levels, the weight and form of an original soap dispenser parallels the heart, and repeats the forms in Fludd’s drawings as well as his own.
Fusco’s work doesn’t contain riddles to be unravelled - the pieces are monumental in that their physical presence and formal geometry are assimilated immediately, the detail and internal relationships acting on, and confirming the first understanding.
Statement: 'Reform'
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Two particular references have been part of the development of Eye, Heart, Diaphragm and Adrenal. Descartes’ ‘cut-away’ diagrams of the eye, in which he explains, through hydraulics, how the human senses function; and Robert Fludd’s Microcosmic man, whose viscera are spread above him as a schematic diagram - re-aligned in correspondence with heavenly phenomena. In this piece, Fusco uses forms and similes on several levels, the weight and form of an original soap dispenser parallels the heart, and repeats the forms in Fludd’s drawings as well as his own.
Fusco’s work doesn’t contain riddles to be unravelled - the pieces are monumental in that their physical presence and formal geometry are assimilated immediately, the detail and internal relationships acting on, and confirming the first understanding.
Statement: 'Reform'
http://www.wonder-dog.co.uk/wp-content/themes/wonderdog/reform/df.html
Royal College of Art. Sculpture School. M.A. R.C.A.
Group Exhibitions.
1993 Morley Gallery, London
1994 ‘Big Sky’, Tricycle Gallery, London.
2001 Objects, Yurakucho, Tokyo.
2006 Fieldgate Gallery, 'Houses in Motion'.
2012 UAL Camberwell 'Outlook'
Solo Exhibitions.
1992 Cooperage, Brick Lane, London.
1994 Atlantis Gallery, London.
1995 Tricycle gallery London.
1996 Whitechapel open/ Orsman Road, London.
2000 Nature and City’ Standort Ausstellungshalle, Frankfurt am Main.
Publications.
1995 Time Out, Sarah Kent. David Fusco at the Tricycle Gallery.
1995 Guardian, ‘A Brush With Genius’.
1997 Art in the Workplace, BBC Radio 4.
1998 ‘Art at the Airports’ BAA Catalogue
1999 ‘Reform’, Collaboration Project. ISBN 0 9535767 01
2000 ‘Erst die Dinge, dann wir’ Frankfurt Randszhar.
2001 Rein-Main-Aktuell. / Art Kaleidescope, Frankfurt.
2006 Tate Gallery Website, David Fusco to Nigel Bents.
Work in Public Collections.
B.A.A. Collection, installation at Heathrow Airport.
Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Group Exhibitions.
1993 Morley Gallery, London
1994 ‘Big Sky’, Tricycle Gallery, London.
2001 Objects, Yurakucho, Tokyo.
2006 Fieldgate Gallery, 'Houses in Motion'.
2012 UAL Camberwell 'Outlook'
Solo Exhibitions.
1992 Cooperage, Brick Lane, London.
1994 Atlantis Gallery, London.
1995 Tricycle gallery London.
1996 Whitechapel open/ Orsman Road, London.
2000 Nature and City’ Standort Ausstellungshalle, Frankfurt am Main.
Publications.
1995 Time Out, Sarah Kent. David Fusco at the Tricycle Gallery.
1995 Guardian, ‘A Brush With Genius’.
1997 Art in the Workplace, BBC Radio 4.
1998 ‘Art at the Airports’ BAA Catalogue
1999 ‘Reform’, Collaboration Project. ISBN 0 9535767 01
2000 ‘Erst die Dinge, dann wir’ Frankfurt Randszhar.
2001 Rein-Main-Aktuell. / Art Kaleidescope, Frankfurt.
2006 Tate Gallery Website, David Fusco to Nigel Bents.
Work in Public Collections.
B.A.A. Collection, installation at Heathrow Airport.
Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Heathrow: (composite)