Luke Hart

In this encounter of Art, Design and Architecture of Monterrey named CUADRANTE during the Santa Lucia Festival, Colector will reveal a public sculpture on the esplanade of new building Guayalejo 100, designed by architect Benjamin Felix Chapman, in one of the most important avenues of our municipality. Chain-Link Twist II: Unrolled Cone by Luke Hart (London) is the first large scale sculptural arrangement in his series of Chain-Link Twist sculptures. This consists of a variety of configurations of serial bars of steel connected by flexible mechanical joints and twisted into structural and self-supporting standing structures. This work is on show, while three new works in the series are in development in Monterrey. The works in the series continue and expand upon an interest that he has had with making functional sculptural structures, with functional in this sense being distinct from having use value, the word used in the sense that the works perform the basic function of simply standing. Also on show is Tri-Ped I, from a related series of works, which suspend steel bars in different geometric compositions, balanced between compression and tension. All these configurations, while potentially aesthetically pleasing, are based more upon geometric logic, and functionality, while hoping to interest the viewer in a physical and experiential sense, rather than a purely aesthetic one.

— Colector