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David Barr
David Barr "Four Corners Project" UofM Complete Portfolio Set of 4 Plus Booklet
1981

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"Four Corners Project" lithographs by David Barr. These lithographs show the places on the earth where where the four points exist and have been marked by David. Throughout his life Barr was interested in engineering, structure, mathematics and nature. David's "Four Corners Project" contains Nystuen's calculations, used by Barr to position his abstract tetrahedral sculpture within the earth. Placement of the sculpture vertices in Easter Island, South Africa, Greenland, and Indonesia. It has been chronicled in film by The Archives of American Art for The Smithsonian Institution. Working with a model of the world and an appropriately sized tetrahedron placed inside, Barr fixed the general location of the points of the tetrahedron, but their exact location was plotted by John Nystuen of the Geography department of the University of Michigan. Although this project is clearly the brain child of David Barr, it has involved the expertise and the cooperative effort of the Artist's friends and colleagues in many professions. The FOUR CORNERS PROJECT is the construction of the world's largest sculpture using the least amount of material. It consists of an invisible tetrahedron spanning the inside of the earth with the four outer corners just protruding from the crust of the earth. These visible corners are located in Easter Island, South Africa, New Guinea, and Greenland, with Imaginary planes extending through the earth from each corner to the other three. The corner is a pinnacle of marble (a four inch tetrahedron) barely emerging from the ground like a sprouting plant. The sculpture is a color/form of such vastness that, like the planet itself, it is impossible to perceive it as an entity. Its viability resides in its being collectively contracted and collectively experienced. Its process of construction and communication is a cultural/geographic/spiritual/esthetic metaphor. The project has laminations of data and concepts which give it resonance beyond its temporal physical character. Easter Island is known by its native inhabitants as Te Pito No Te Henua, the "Navel of the World," the first corner was created there. Easter Island produced one of the most isolated and spectacular cultures in the world. The second corner was implanted at Revile, South Africa. The co-ordinates placed it on the farm Karee Boom. Africa is currently considered the cradle of the human species. Greenland follows where the co-ordinate is on the ice cap three KM above sea level. Greenland is the largest island in the world. And, finally, Iran Jaya, New Guinea is the last corner. New Guinea is the second largest island in the world. This project, as an act of constructive creation, has at its core a faith in humanity and a faith that when we are united by the arts, the world community is most loving, most sane, and most human. The structures that bind humans through interests, needs, relationships, heritage, intellect, faith, and understanding, are an invisible filigree of connective links, a filigree that embraces innumerable people in the past, present, and future. When our spirit is enlarged, enriched, and enjoyed through connection, it moves quite naturally toward the celebration of that reality. The culmination of connection is celebration in its most transcendent form. - David Barr Born in Detroit in 1939, Structurist artist David Barr did not express an interest in the arts until college. As a child growing up in the suburb of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, it seemed that he would pursue a more conventional route — Barr’s father was an engineer at Chrysler and his mother worked as a secretary in the public library. Following in his father’s footsteps, Barr enrolled at Wayne State University to study engineering but felt like an outsider among the other students. When a friend introduced him to the fine arts college Barr decided to change paths and focus his studies on sculpture and industrial design. At Wayne State, Barr incorporated materials and concepts found in the engineering trades into full-scale sculptures and reliefs. Combining mathematics, nature and Structurist principles, Barr began to define the visual vocabulary which he would continue to use throughout his career. He graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts in 1965 and later that same year, Barr accepted an associate professor position at Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan which he would hold for thirty-seven years. In 1979, interested in the connective power of art, Barr began to formulate ideas for a conceptual sculpture spanning the globe. The Four Corners Project, completed in 1981, consisted of an invisible tetrahedron under the earth’s crust with four protruding corners located on Easter Island, South Africa, New Guinea and Greenland. At each corner, he installed a pinnacle of marble to mark the intersecting planes. Barr was awarded the Governor’s Michigan Artist Award in 1988, and during his acceptance speech he announced his plans for a public sculpture park. In 1995 Barr realized his dream of creating an outdoor sanctuary for artists, poets and naturalists alike when he founded the thirty-acre Michigan Legacy Art Park at Crystal Mountain, southwest of Traverse City in Thompsonville, Michigan. Furthering his commitment to the community, in 2012 he sold his Villa Barr home and surrounding property to the city of Novi, Michigan to be used as a sculpture garden, artist residence and cultural education center. Throughout his career, Barr completed numerous sculptural commissions at sites around the world including the iconic tribute to the auto industry, Transcending at Hart Plaza in Detroit, a marble monument to astronomer Galileo at Town Hall in Pisa, Italy, and two gear-inspired companion sculptures,Revolution I and II, at the Chrysler European Headquarters in Brussels and the Chrysler World Headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan. His work is housed in various collections and institutions across the United States including the AT&T Corporate Collection, Chicago, the Atlantic-Richfield Company, Los Angeles, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Portland Art Museum and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. David Barr died on August 28tʰ, 2015 leaving behind a legacy committed to public art and a vast body of work. David Barr was an artist who knew that the iPhone employed the Golden Section as the shape of its screen. He knew that the Golden Section (1:1.62…) was integral with the Fibonacci Series (0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21…) that governs much of Life on Earth. He knew that Art History showed that this mathematical treasure was key to much of great art and he pursued a synthesis of Art, Mathematics, and Life. David’s Energy constantly explored the varieties of relationships between Art, Math, and Life. His reliefs, his steel and stone works, his housebuilding, and his writings connected ideas, numbers, and even color in a logical, thoughtful way. He sought to enrich the world and the lives of those of us who knew him. He was a trailblazer in many ways, enthusiastically reaching for a grand synthesis in his works. We still have many works of his with us and will continue to appreciate them into the future.

Creator:
David Barr (1939 - 2015)
Creation Year:
1981
Dimensions:
Height: 19.25 in (48.9 cm)Width: 23.75 in (60.33 cm)
Medium:
Lithograph
Movement & Style:
Conceptual
Period:
1980-1989
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Detroit, MI
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1286112826282

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