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Residual Stacks

Robert Schlotter — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 00:22:30 +0000

The dynamic ordering and the daily reshuffling of materials are references that lead to disruptions for users and enable casual encounters. Residual Stacks is a document of work Kate Morrell undertook on-site over five days and nights, using materials extracted from the drawers of the Sitterwerk Foundation’s Werkstoffarchiv. A series of constructed images produced over one quiet week in early summer, when left uninterrupted to handle materials and accumulate books and materials with a single workspace.

The ‚stacks‘ integrate objects from the many sections of the archive (metals, minerals, textiles, ceramics, paper etc.), disrupting any established hierarchies of materials. The accession numbers and element listings supplied, are as recorded in the Sitterwerk Catalogue.

This series of images and this publication are made in conversation with a library sub-section of exhibition catalogues, mainly Swiss-designed; these slim catalogues were published c1960s-70s, illustrated with black and white images documenting European post-war sculpture, contemporary minimalism, modernist sculpture and monumental words in marble, steel and bronze.

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Museum Pictorial Bronze mirror, incised

Robert Schlotter — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 16:19:56 +0000

Museum Pictorial showcases and expands upon, a selection of bronze mirrors which are on permanent display at Kendal Museum, Cumbria. In the museum’s archaeology collections, displayed in 3 separate display cases, are 3 ancient mirrors: 1 Egyptian, 1 Celtic and 1 Roman. The mirrors are formed from the same material (bronze), but vary in appearance. One mirror is gold in colour, one has a silvered-effect surface and one is vivid green and oxidized. Bronze smelting developed at different rates throughout the ancient world and examples of bronze mirrors can be found within many different cultures and civilizations.

Bronze mirror, incised, presents a selective overview of ancient mirrors, placing 2 Kendal mirrors in a broader context. Additional objects of note are selected by Kate Morrell, directed by the artists’ research at Kendal Museum and online digital collections, including The British Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The featured mirrors are made from a variety of materials: bronze, copper, gold silver, obsidian, pyrite and glass. The earliest example presented in the pictorial, dates from the Stone Age

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Index: A Land. Fragments from the Jacquetta Hawkes Archive

Robert Schlotter — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 21:37:11 +0000

This publication is a reproduction of a handwritten and annotated index for A Land, a non-fiction book by archaeologist and writer Jacquetta Hawkes, first published in 1951.

Produced from archival material held in The Jacquetta Hawkes Archive, Special Collections at University of Bradford. The original index was written and compiled by Jacquetta and Nicolas Hawkes.

Index: A Land is reprinted with the kind permission of Special Collections, University of Bradford and Nicolas Hawkes.

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