Streamline - Torso 3
- Artist:
- Type: Sculpture
- Medium: Indian black granite
- Medium: Granite
- Production Date: 2009
- Description: ‘The "Streamline" series started with an interest in 1920s -30s streamlined car design. Streamlining was believed to be the most efficient way for a machine to move through space. Now we know that this was not only a manifestation of the principals of physics, but also an expression of human imagination, expectations and desires. This can be symbolic key of human feeling negotiating with nature. In order to investigate what our contemporary society is about, I tried to extract the design essence of the streamline curves as independent objects to give the impression of speed and efficiency modern society was aiming for.‘
In this series, inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and using Japanese-style flowing simple lines with the dynamism and grace of the early 20th Century modern design movement, Katagiri identified the design essence as a strong symbol of modernity and condensed it into abstract form. He is trying to raise the question of what the modern was, and reassess the philosophy of modernism for today. - Dimensions: 193 x 22 x 20 h cm
- Digital Copy:A digital copy exists.
- Location: Pathfoot Courtyard 5
- Related Material: AC/AF/K/1
- Accession Number: L.2012.3
- Contact: University of Stirling Art Collection
