Toshio Sasaki
Sculpture, Video

This installation included a monumental sculpture consisting of a cast-iron boat embedded in a concrete curtain-wall constructed in the workshop. Viewers could see both sides of the boat and wall construction, which extended from one of the columns to the left-hand wall of the space. A tape recording of the sea and sounds made by the artist while constructing the boat accompanied the piece. On view was a video piece for two monitors, placed one on top of the other making the piece resemble an hourglass, since the sawdust in the top image seemed to pour into the image into the lower monitor. Available for reference at the gallery was Sasaki’s portfolio notebook of earlier work, which showed the large steel funnel used in the production of the video piece.

Excerpted from Brentano, R., & Savitt, M. (1981). 112 Workshop, 112 Greene Street: History, artists & artworks. New York: New York University Press.