Simon Denny And Still Faster

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The larger-than-life tap painted in the centre of this work has all the signs of hasty application. Rendered in spray paint on cheap trade-store polystyrene, then propped out from the wall, it looks casual. The above-human scale gives the work a drama that exceeds the ordinary nature of its image and forms. Like Simon Denny’s other early sculptural works, And Still Faster resists its supports – the wall and floor. It appears to lurch and teeter. The material capacity of objects is stretched, as if they are attempting something outside their capability.

Artist:
Simon Denny 
Title:
And Still Faster 
Production Date:
2007 
Medium:
polystyrene sheet, blackboard paint, spraypaint, dressed pine and dowel 
Size (hxw):
2440 x 2400 x 50 mm 
Credit Line:
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2007 
Accession No:
C2007/1/19.1-3 
Copyright:
Copying restrictions apply 
Department:
New Zealand Art 

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