2015.50 Not Vital, Lotus Flowers (Lotus Blumen)


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Not Vital’s body of work includes drawings, paintings, sculptures, installations, and buildings, but all his pieces are defined by a pursuit to emulate the beauty of nature. This work celebrates the already sculptural beauty of a lotus bud. The stainless steel gives the structure a polished hardness and permanence. The material might imply that the flower’s blossom is eternally obstructed, forever con­cealing the beauty of the flower, but instead the elegance of the form is emphasized.

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Anna Katherine Brodbeck, ed., TWO X TWO X TWENTY: Two Decades Supporting Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art), 2018, 270.

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Did not get object file- streamlined process, no provenance. CLC, 11/15/18.  

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Not Vital’s body of work includes drawings, paintings, sculptures, installations, and buildings, but all his pieces are defined by a pursuit to emulate the beauty of nature. This work celebrates the already sculptural beauty of a lotus bud. The stainless steel gives the structure a polished hardness and permanence. The material might imply that the flower’s blossom is eternally obstructed, forever con­cealing the beauty of the flower, but instead the elegance of the form is emphasized.

Excerpt from
Anna Katherine Brodbeck, ed., TWO X TWO X TWENTY: Two Decades Supporting Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art), 2018, 270.

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Notes
Did not get object file- streamlined process, no provenance. CLC, 11/15/18.  

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scale (relative size): AAT: 300056307
installations (visual works): AAT: 300047896
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stainless steel: AAT: 300010920
buds: AAT: 300375399
Vital_Not: ULAN: 500067365
lotus (plant): AAT: 300375570
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