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Wood Row - 1999

"Wood Row", sculpture by Sebastian Bieniek, 1999

What is the differance between Installation Art , "other conceptual art" and sculpture?

Installation is somehow big. If you can't carry it away it's an Installation.

If it's small enough that you can carry it away and when it's technically not unique (so you can't recognize a signature by the making, or - even - somobody else did it, like the "
overpainted Sebastian Bieniek") but - may be - by the "spin" of the idea, than it's  Bieniek's "other conceptual art".


And than: sculpture is when it's made by the artist himself and one needs a little "artist like" skills to do it, or at least everbody would do it kind of different, but this "different" was made by the artist himself.


Nevertheless some artwork like "Recycled Sol LeWitt" , or the "The Stolen 100 DM" are still hard to collate. What is it? At the beginning it's "Action Art", than depending on the presentation, it could be an Installation (if you take a lot and make it big), and if you just take (one) the final result could also be a sculpture, but according to the definition "without special skills and skill-signature it's other conceptual art, it's "other conceptual art.



(Bieniek's definition)


"Wood Row" (ger. "Holzreihe"), sculpture by Sebastian Bieniek, 1999

"Wood Row" (ger. "Holzreihe"), 1999. Wooden sculpture (wooden beams and flower pots). This sculpture, like the "Color Row" by Sebastian Bieniek, was destroyed in 2003 and therefore only exists in photos.

"Wood Row" (ger. "Holzreihe"), sculpture by Sebastian Bieniek, 1999


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