Index Code:

ART-STA-BOV

Orgin:

Switzerland/USA

Field Notes:

Bent steel tubes fossils and found objects coexist so that history appears as a spatial diagram of collisions

Defining Moment:

The crushed columns and looping beams arranged with pedestals where rust and polish stage structure as both ruin and proposal

Carol Bove

(

1971–

)

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Bove built a world where steel, shells, and found objects merge into poised compositions — forms balancing severity and delicacy.

Her sculptures reveal restraint as structural intelligence.

Structural Focus

Material as Condition

Material behavior determines outcome more than composition or image. Gravity, density, texture, or resistance guide form.

In Carol Bove’s work, this approach appears where sculptural arrangements are shaped by material presence and precise placement.

Position

Material as Condition

Material behavior determines outcome more than composition or image. Gravity, density, texture, or resistance guide form.

In Carol Bove’s work, this approach appears where sculptural arrangements are shaped by material presence and precise placement.

Constructed Surfaces

Surfaces are built through layering, joining, and controlled fabrication.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Material

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Proportion

Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.

Structure

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Art

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Contemporary

Current practice engages inherited structures under present conditions.

Sculptural Modernism

Modernist form asserts volume, mass, and spatial presence.

Carol Bove

Structural Focus

Material as Condition

Position

Material as Condition

Observartory

In Dialogue

Carol Bove

Structural Focus

Material as Condition

Position

Material as Condition

Observartory

By Structural Focus

In Dialogue