Robert Burnier: Of No Particular King

I employ models and structures that exist prior to the formal choices I make, giving those spaces over to imaginative alteration. Materials offer resistance and guide my path. The specific and the given are historical facts to contend with as an artwork emerges. Municipal hues are chosen that signify collective action and reciprocity, inviting subjective response and the possibility of pleasure.

All aspects of this site are acknowledged, built upon, or circumvented. They convene to arrive at a form. And yet these elements, while involved, do not determine: the sculpture stands autonomously and as go between. Structure yields to wind, rain, and natural forces in order to persist. A faceless king, boundaries of a city’s conception, a devotional procedural picture.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.