Archive 2008-09
Timo Kube
- Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
- Start: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:00:00 GMT
- End: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:00:00 GMT
“What if the materials, embodied in everyday, and familiar objects protest to one’s ability to understand, compose concepts, and so unveil the meaning involved in the most simplest of comprehension? Kube’s works, in part offer no resolve other than positioning us as viewers; we may be able to look at what is represented but not into, or inside; the thing never presents, its presence reserved by the opacity of its material surface. We are outsiders, as one is to all works of art – in turn, per chance if there is a beauty to be experienced it is seldom acquired, a matter of meditation, a slow inspection.
To find such experience the investigation, or better chance encounter comes not so much in forms of grand displays, overwhelming one with a massive sculptural volume, which is why his subject matter stresses that which is closest, most common, too familiar, passed barely unnoticed. Additionally, his choice of functional items as subjects intensifies the fragile experience in its complexity; a window invites more than observation, as much as a door, inviting one to open. Ironically, the invitation is held up, the entrance too dark to peer into, the curtain obscuring what is ahead; such is the resistance to anything more than looking. Even silent, exemplified for instance in a concrete chest of drawers, the muteness of the object appears via its grey exterior. Our sense of the work, the experience, or even its sensation derives from a kind of single point of view, or seeing it from one side: outside… in.
It seems that the only option of engaging (his) art is the predominant one, that of appreciating what the material bears, in other words believing in what qualities are present in the surface, be it canvas, or sculpted envelope.
His utilizing constructions that are almost too familiar in an everyday, or better functional context add to the hindering of comprehension: a plane window, or an office door.
Text by Robert Luzar
Winter, 2007