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A brief flash, a impression of the transformation, then another step has been taken towards the desired goal. For a moment the form stands alone, then further ele-ments come to join it.
A tone seeks shape, like the branch of a tree it has to grow high, and, guided know-ingly by the artist’s hand, find its form, adapt to the overriding harmony.
Only now does the possibility arise - the transformation is shape, but it still has no soul.
The purpose and fulfilment of the whole cycle lie in the action, in the act. Through the hand the state again becomes whole, becomes deep black. A tone, transformed out of the original material, a tone again, but now a new world.
Gary Stern
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Our handling of tin and lead when making organ pipes fascinated Gary Stern (www.garystern.ch) from the beginning. The procedure of making pipes, the trans-formation of tin and lead ingots into liquid metal which takes shape cast as solid tin sheet, the treatment, cutting, moulding and soldering: in his etchings he repro-duces this metamorphosis.
In this 3rd and last series the artist completes his work and closes the circle. The unfinished pipe is given its tone on site, becomes a part of the whole, of the organ. The print of the third tin sheet, now completely worked, is shown in a rich, deep black and is a symbolic representation of the whole instrument, the secret of which is manifested not visually but in its tone.
The basis and the workpiece for Gary Stern’s endeavour are the crude tin plates cut to a size of 16.6 x 18.6 cm. Their woven texture, which is created by casting on cloth, forms the matrix for Gary Stern’s work.
Kuhn Organ Buildsers Ltd
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Profile:
Gary Stern was born in 1958 and grew up in Zurich. From 1980 to 1983 he completed an apprenticeship as scenic designer and scenic painter in the Studio and Forum of Stage Design of Lester Polakov in New York. After returning to Switzerland, he was co-founder of several scenic construction companies and worked for the free the-atre scene of Zurich. He works as an independent artist, scenic painter and teacher of scenic painting at the vocational school of design in Zurich, always searching and sometimes finding.
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