Exhibition with Tommy Støckel 25.10-12.11

Iaspis Time Told by the Shape of a Shadow, Paper, Cardboard, Polystyrene, Tommy Støckel, 2006 Tommy Støckel Clash of the Classics The Project Studio, Iaspis, Stockholm 25 October 12 November 2006 Opening 25 October 6-8 PM 6.30 PM Turing test performed on Tommy Støckel by Robert Stasinski Iaspis International Artist Studio Program in Sweden T: 46 (0)8-402 35 77 E: info@iaspis.com http://www.iaspis.com Clash of the Classics In Tommy Støckels constructions, hyper design is blended with classic archetypal form. He uses paper, cardboard, foam and polystyrene to create sculptures and collages that play with design histories. Both the gallery floor and walls are sites for Støckels sculptures, which can take organic as well as machine-made shapes. His works re-describe the boundaries between 2D and 3D installations through warped angles and perspectives, creating a slight nausea within the white cube. The works are dressed up as classical sculpture, but at times using subtle modifications referring to the Renaissance canon, molecular structure and artificial life. Contemporary sci-fi art usually wrestles with premises from the academic world of natural science and empirical research, but, interestingly, Støckel manages to merge artistic paradigms with scientific ones. A text about the artist accompanies the exhibition, written as an imaginative conversation between Tommy Støckel, the mathematically inspired 20th century artist M. C. Escher and Robert Stasinski, project manager at Iaspis. The conversation attempts to bridge the gap of the modernist construct of physicality and todays microcosm of nano-technologies, made through a dialogue on the works of Støckel. Tommy Støckel, born in 1972 in Copenhagen, lives and works in Berlin. In 2006, he held a NIFCA-residency at Iaspis in Stockholm, where parts of the present exhibition was formed.