Oscar Tuazon

Hammer

2014

Oscar Tuazon, Hammer, 2014

Oscar Tuazon‘s sculptural oeuvre is situated at the border of art, architecture and technology. Engaging different methods of construction, he frequently uses wood, concrete, glass, steel, and piping as materials to create his structures and installations. Tuazon’s works have roots in minimalism, conceptualism, and architecture, and have a direct relationship with both the site in which they are presented, as well as with their viewer, often through physical engagement. They maintain an improvised, precarious quality that draws upon his long-standing interest in how the built environment is redefined and redesigned by the act of inhabitation. In the series Hammer, the loss of functionality of the chisels molded into concrete cylinders gives form to a sculptural object with a new practicality that can be read in light of its title.

Oscar Tuazon is an artist working mainly with natural and industrial materials – such as wood, concrete, glass, steel, and piping – to create inventive objects, structures, and installations that viewers can use, occupy, or otherwise engage. Although he identifies primarily as a sculptor and his work is rooted in the history of minimalism and its strategies, Tuazon's practice occupies a position between architecture and activism, and his concern is with relationality and presence over purity in form. Responding to the specificity of the sites he works in, often in both spatial and social terms, Tuazon explores individuals' relationship to and perception of space. His work addresses preservation, functionality and livelihood questions, examining and etching alternative conceptions of public and private spaces and raising awareness of our ecosystems' fragility.

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Oscar Tuazon Hammer

Oscar Tuazon

Hammer