"Moonstruck" by Don Saco.
Despite their abstract qualities, Don Saco’s sculptures, on exhibit at the Southampton Cultural Center through January 30, nevertheless maintain powerful reminders of the figurative impulses that characterized his earlier work before moving to the East End in 2003.
Substituting gestural impulse for anatomical purity while still allowing line and shape to delineate movement in space, the works echo Constantin Brancusi’s observation that rather than fantastic hallucinations, abstraction is not unconnected to reality because “what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.” In addition, in their compositional configurations, the artist maintains the strong emotional overtones that dominated his more figurative pieces.
Rather than a twisting torso bent by some invisible force of nature, however, the viewer extrapolates a similarly demonstrative sensation from sensuous abstract forms intertwined in... more
Substituting gestural impulse for anatomical purity while still allowing line and shape to delineate movement in space, the works echo Constantin Brancusi’s observation that rather than fantastic hallucinations, abstraction is not unconnected to reality because “what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.” In addition, in their compositional configurations, the artist maintains the strong emotional overtones that dominated his more figurative pieces.
Rather than a twisting torso bent by some invisible force of nature, however, the viewer extrapolates a similarly demonstrative sensation from sensuous abstract forms intertwined in... more
