Molecular (SYDNEY)

The unifying thread in Serge Spitzer’s works since the 1970s has been the challenging of assumptions about the nature of sculpture.

Whether transforming architectural spaces by flooding them with masses of unexpected, incongruous objects, or arranging a seemingly endless piece of thread into a tangle of lines as a ‘drawing’, Spitzer manages to gift his audience with a sense of wonder. For more than ten years he has been creating a series of Molecular installations that make a virtue of randomness – myriad small units are placed in a loose molecular structure that permeates, reflects and defines a given space and, through the agency of human transmission, even goes far beyond it. The viral paradigm that Spitzer proposes for art and its audience is, in fact, how cultures have always renewed and replicated themselves.

Spitzer presented Molecular (SYDNEY) (2002–10) in the abandoned, roofless Guard House at the top of Cockatoo Island for the 17th Biennale of Sydney (2010).