GOLDSMITHS | MFA 2020

Olga Ulmann



Clinamen und Skulptiere/Clinamen and Sculpturians
Clinamen und die Skulptiere is a visual reference to the art historian Didi-Huberman’s expression 'Clinamen' that he uses to describe the declination of the female figure of Venus in Boticelli, di Cosimo and Titian’s paintings. He refers to it as the slow movement to the ground, 'as if the folds of the garment slid to the floor all by themselves, in slow motion, and the young women undressed just before she reaches the floor, where the fabric catches her. In this process the drapery gains autonomy and takes on a new iconographic, now serving as a reservoir for the imaginary substance of desire' in Didi - Huberman, Georges, Ninfa Moderna. Über den Fall des Faltenwurfs (Ninfa Moderna. About the Fall of Drapery), 2006.
Sewn white plastic sheet, wood, flag holder, golden spray paint, latex, construction foam, 220 x 180 x 230 cm, 2020.
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Clinamen und Skulptiere/Clinamen and Sculpturians by Olga Ulmann

Clinamen und Skulptiere/Clinamen and Sculpturians
Clinamen und die Skulptiere is a visual reference to the art historian Didi-Huberman’s expression 'Clinamen' that he uses to describe the declination of the female figure of Venus in Boticelli, di Cosimo and Titian’s paintings. He refers to it as the slow movement to the ground, 'as if the folds of the garment slid to the floor all by themselves, in slow motion, and the young women undressed just before she reaches the floor, where the fabric catches her. In this process the drapery gains autonomy and takes on a new iconographic, now serving as a reservoir for the imaginary substance of desire' in Didi - Huberman, Georges, Ninfa Moderna. Über den Fall des Faltenwurfs (Ninfa Moderna. About the Fall of Drapery), 2006.
Sewn white plastic sheet, wood, flag holder, golden spray paint, latex, construction foam, 220 x 180 x 230 cm, 2020.