The Genius of Little Things (Published 2008)
Plastic Cups - Tara Donovan - To construct “Untitled (Plastic Cups)” in 2006, at the PaceWildenstein Gallery in New York (USA), which must be freshly built each time it is shown, she stacks millions of transparent plastic cups in a tight, rigorous grid and sculptures the swaying piles into gentle waves that suggest a cross-section of a pixilated landscape. Like much of her work, it can be expanded or contracted to fit the space.
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Yasuaki Onishi, Reverse of volume RG. 2012, glue, plastic sheet. Onishi uses the simplest materials - plastic sheeting and black hot glue - to create a monumental, floating form. The process that he calls “casting the invisible” involves draping plastic sheeting over stacked cardboard boxes, which are then removed to leave only their impressions.
