José Maria Sicilia | CECILIA (Constellations)
I wasn’t crazy about the other pieces in the current show at Galerie Chantal Crousel but I liked the simple gestures of Sicilia’s Cecilia sculptures. Flat door sized slabs of marble, leaning against the wall, covered in smooth round “bubbles” that seems to float on the surface of still water. The effect was clean and contemplative; each protrusion existed in communion with the others, but also in it’s own separate world. The only aspect that I found annoying was that the “bubbles” were surrounded by shallow, round, concave pools. The works were made by cutting into a stone of a certain width, and if the artist has began the work with a thicker stone, which would have allowed some more subtle variations in the depth and size of each “bubble,” as well as its’ relation to the surrounding space…