Take Five invites previously featured artists on Progress Report to present the work
of five artists they admire, draw inspiration from, and would like to share. In this segment, painter Douglas Melini features the work of five sculptors.
Stefan Eberstadt
b. 1961, Germany, lives and works in Munich.
Rucksack House, 2004
8' x 8' x 12'
"Rucksack House created by Stefan Eberstadt is a great new way to expand your living space perched between art and architecture, form and function. A hovering illuminated space that looks like a cross between temporary scaffolding and minimal sculpture. As mobile as a rucksack, this mini-house is intended to be an additional room that can be suspended from the façade of any residential building.
The cube is a light and empty space, free from connotations and open to its user’s needs. While still being inside a private atmosphere, one has the impression of floating outside of the confines of the actual dwelling above the public space. Fold down furnishings and a multitude of built-in openings on the inside provide extra living space with direct daylight. Sections of the walls unfold, with the help of hidden magnets, into a desk, shelves, and a platform for reading or sleeping. The Rucksack box is suspended from steel cables that are anchored to the roof or to the facade of the existing building. The construction is a welded steel cage with a light birch veneered plywood interior cladding. The outside cladding is exterior grade plywood with an absorbent resin surface punctuated by Plexiglas inserts."
24 Hour Piece, Economist Plaza, St. James Street, London
LOOP_Dallas, 2008
a space within a space, within a space.
Josh Criscione Nusbaum
b. Boston, MA, lives and works in Bronx, NY.
As Saturn Grew From Her Ear, 2005
wall hanging made of watercolor paper, beach towel, and steel wire, 20” x 8 1/2” x 20 1/2”
Abstraction Memory/Vision 1: Visiting a Collector or Dealer’s Home, 2006
wall hanging made of watercolor paper, sweater material, plaid shirt fabric, silk fabric, leather, wicker basket, brass, vellum, and museum board: mounted on plywood
23 1/2” x 15 3/4” x 35 3/4”
Abstraction Memory/Vision 1: Visiting a Collector or Dealer’s Home, detail
Observer is Watching You, 2008
wall hanging made of mahogany wood, leather, winter jacket,
acrylic, Italian pipe, wicker basket, and brass
39” x 18 1/2” x 33 1/2”
Observer is Watching You, detail
Michael Sailstorfer
b. Germany, lives and works in Berlin.
3 Ster mitt Ausblick, 2002
wood cabin and wood burning stove
"3 Ster mit Ausblick (2002) (done in collaboration with Jürgen Heinert) records a wooden country house consuming itself by gradually burning its structural parts in its own stove. A consequence of this implied self-destruction is that the viewer witnesses the house seemingly acting in its own right. This inverts the meaning of the house from a safe haven to a self-destructive place. What is commonly considered the material and spiritual center of the house—the stove—becomes the inner enemy attacking the foundation of its own domesticity."
Schlagzeug (German Police Car), 2003
drum set built with the metal from a German police car 55" x 78 3/4" x 53 1/4"
Untitled (Performing Sculpture), 2008
tire, electrical engine, electric current, dimensions variable
Letha Wilson
b. Honolulu, Hawaii, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Right Back At You, 2009
digital print, flashlight, rocks, 36" x 24" x 30"
Vertical Horizon, 2010
c-print, cut plexiglass, aluminum frame, dimensions variable
Double Dip, 2009
wood, digital prints, 80" x 5" x 38"
Tamara Zahaykevich
b. New Jersey, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Uki Painting, 2008
polystyrene, paper, acrylic paint, glue, 18.5" x 13" x 1.5"
Harry Goody, 2010
polystyrene, paper, ink, canned foam, glue, 4.75" x 5.5" x 4"
Minerva Waves, 2010
polystyrene, paper, acrylic paint, glue, 10.25" x 7" x 2"
Douglas Melini - 12.22.10.