princeton NEW JERSEY

Princeton University
critic: Stan ALLEN.

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Hans TURSACK: Graphic Fields is a series of drawings, renderings, models and a text researching compositional principles that stage interactions between flat shapes and volumetric systems.

Each experiment plays with a loose, but finite grammar of objects, architectural elements, and graphic fragments distributed in a (primarily) plan-based matrix. Ambiguous in scale and program, different iterations recall game-board layouts, athletic fields, and vacant stage sets.

The project embraces the semantically charged obstacle course-gardens or “complexes” developed by Post-Minimal sculptors like Alice Aycock, Nancy Holt, Mary Miss and Robert Morris as a formal type. Like the complexes of that era, the compositions that make up Graphic Fields are open-ended aggregations of overlapping visual systems; movements between structure and informality suggests growth and change.

sP: What or who influenced this project?
HT: Early Alice Aycock, West Coast Minimalism, Peter Halley.

sP: What were you reading/listening to/watching while developing this project?
HT: Listening: anything off of Night Slugs and Fade to Mind. Especially Jam City and Nguzunguzu.
Reading: Composition, Non-Composition by Jacques Lucan. Design and Crime by Hal Foster.

sP: Whose work is currently on your radar?
HT: Antoine Catala, Alisa Baremboym, Alex Da Corte

Additional Credits/Links:

Fabrication with Dan Morgan at Substrate Fabrication (http://substratefab.com)
Photography/Printed Matter: Brilliant Graphics (https://brilliant-graphics.com)
Additional Collaborators: Yshai Yudekowitz, Cyrus Penarroyo, Loren Yu, Dorit Aviv