At a Hayward gallery exhibition, she cast an appraising eye on an installation of coiled rope by Barry Flanagan, then asked "Did he make the rope?" The question, as her son noted, deftly deflated the pretensions of conceptual art.
He seems to be an all-American guy except that he creates strange installations of hanging ropes, and suffers from visions -- of himself as a child in Afghanistan in traditional dress, of smoke and bombs, of his dead parents and the Russian soldier who shot them during the Soviet invasion.
In a toolshed, Ms. Dagnal created an installation of salvaged wood, coils of rope and chains.
A transparent installation made up of five kilometres of rope and 24 glass pipettes, the ropes are suspended from three cylinders that reach from the ceiling to (just above) the floor.
Waves is an installation that uses two motors to oscillate a length of rope, creating a visual reminiscent of a digital waveform while creating it's own whipping hum from the motion of the rope cutting through the air.
She came on to many more people's radar when she filled Tate Britain's huge Duveen galleries with her monumental work Dock, a breathtakingly ramshackle installation of wooden scaffolding, polystyrene, pallets and rope.
Events take place in the museum's courtyard, which will also house "Holding Pattern," an interactive installation by the New York architecture firm Interboro Partners that includes benches, mirrors, Ping-Pong tables and trees beneath a canopy of rope and fabric, all of which will be donated to local community organizations in the fall.
A coil of rope occupies a bench.
That buys you a lot of rope.
The recursive formulas of ROPE are as follows.
