
“Then I kept looking at the structure and I realized, the metal was made from bending, and so I wondered what would happen, if I continued bending.”
Wade Guyton's stainless steel sculpture embodies a meditative exploration of the material's inherent properties, as the work traces the logical conclusion of a single industrial process taken to its expressive extreme. The piece emerges from a conceptual dialogue between observation and action, with Guyton interrogating how repetitive bending transforms rigid metal into something that carries the record of its own making. The resulting form exists as both object and argument, asking viewers to consider how structure and process are fundamentally inseparable.
- Medium
- stainless steel
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Evening Sale
November 11, 2013
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