Tuesday Evenings at the Modern - Tom Sachs
Tom Sachs, described by
Emma Allen for the
New Yorker as a “mix of mad scientist, obsessive tinkerer, cult guru, taskmaster general, starry-eyed theoretician, and workout champion,” is an original advocate of bricolage, or
DIY, and one of today’s most inspiring and influential sculptors.
Best known for elaborate and innovative re-creations of various
Modern icons, re-creations that are masterpieces of engineering and design of one kind or another, Sachs explains, “I’m obsessed with innovation.
It’s like that
David Foster Wallace thing: If you worship money, you’ll always feel poor. If you worship beauty, you’ll always feel ugly. If you worship power, you always feel powerless. I worship innovation and I always feel like I’m not doing enough new stuff. That’s my impulsiveness.”
With his cu
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