3 Sculptures

Tommy Støckel has developed a series of large scale sculptures and installations using cheap and readily available materials that resemble stage sets or props; while at the same time their simple geometric language references Minimal Art. Constructed from materials such as paper, cardboard and polystyrene, their temporality eludes solid and permanent sculpture. There is a suggestion that there’s more at stake in Støckel’s work than a clever amusement with references to high and low culture. Upon closer inspection, his sculptures look unfinished, or that they are in a state of decay. This is the subject of an ongoing speculative research into the fictitious passing of time, alternative presents and unidentified futures.

The exhibition 3 Sculptures presents a shift of focus and is one of the most ambitious and technically challenging projects that Støckel has been working on to date. For the first time his interest in the unfinished or decayed is being worked out in photography, rather than through sculptures’ finished and perfect state. Støckel utilizes photography’s documentary character to track the temporal aspects of sculpture and exhibition making, as well as an engagement with the notion of surface, materiality and the permanence of art objects.