Dove Bradshaw, Waterstone, 1996-2007, pietra calcarea, acqua, vetro

ROME, ITALY.- Senzatitolo presents Dove Bradshaw’s first exhibition in Italy. She will exhibit installations, paintings and sculptures that incorporate the element of time. Her silver Contingency Pour (1996), from a series begun in the early eighties, has been chemically-activated to react to changing atmospheric conditions. Weather serves as a catalyst in her Indeterminacy and Material/ Immaterial works which slowly capture transient metamorphoses in marble, pyrite and copper. In other works Bradshaw sets into motion the gradual erosion of stone and salt, using water as the transformative agent. In Waterstone from 1996 water slowly erodes a limestone block. The centerpiece of this exhibition, Negative Ions II, a salt work also from 1996, has been exhibited widely. Unique in this installation, its water-filled funnel hung eyelevel releases drop by drop through a square opening in the floor down to a salt mound a story below. During the exhibition the salt will continuously re-crystallize.
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