Folded Steel
“New
is only half of it. Davy’s work is both a radical departure and a
highly successful one. The internal tensions and the concern for
balance remain, although the forms are no longer cantilevered beams:
they are folded steel tubes rising triumphantly up from the floor like
an outcropping of silvery reeds. Some are so tall they graze the
ceiling, and each one is girdles at the center, top or bottom by heavy
iron chains. Reminiscent of Giaciometti’s attenuated figures as well as
the bondage of Michaelangelo’s slaves, these very contemporary
abstractions communicate an existential tesion between transcendence
and restraint, freedom and limitation. Being upright as well as
tubular, they suggest the human form as well as the human condition,
reaching up but never entirely defying gravity. One can only marvel at
how Davy managed to take such a quantum leap and make the shift so
gracefully.”
- Dinah Berland, art critic
Long Beach Press Telegram, May 13, 1990
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