Texts and Contact
Studio Address.
44 Drumlanrig Street
Thornhill
DG3 5LJ
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additional site: https://fuscoart.wixsite.com/stones
Standort:
The works are distillations from an abundance of slowly organised material, realised as sequences and groups; similes of common experiences composed of objects which are re-manufactures, hybrids and inventions; instruments, tools and containers. The objects are crafted to maintain a close link with the manufactured originals, but scale, and the narrative of the groups allows any initial recognition to move on to explore new public and personal meanings.
..In "Eye,heart,diaphragm and Adrenal', Fusco uses forms and similes on several levels, the weight and form of an original soap dispenser parallels the heart, and repeats forms in Fludd and Descarte's drawings as well as his own.
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“Where an earlier piece like ‘Wet & Dry’ defines extremes in a set, ‘Dew’ presents range of 'matter', using the codes of expectation by which we recognise and use substances. We have a learned language for common designed objects, but only ever consider it in an unfamiliar setting, or when confused by a new substance. It’s a commentary on material aesthetics. but the change of scale lets bigger narratives, references, and dialogues take place. Its not about the object, its about the viewer.” DF.
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Atlantis / Tricycle Gallery.
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“Nine coloured objects are attached to the wall in a grid. They look like parts of an educational toy. There’s a blue disc with a triangular slot and a red one with a star shaped hole through which to post the appropriately shaped bricks. But the solids don’t match the gaps. At a pinch, the elliptical shaft might slide through the elliptical ring above it; on the other hand, the ridges might interfere. The yellow crown-like object has no matching receptacle, nor does the maroon half-ziggurat. These odd shapes could be based on (mis) remembered playthings from childhood, or on things that David Fusco has found on a beach and can’t positively identify…but beautifully crafted in wood and painted, these wall sculptures employ an elegant formalism to resist banal attributions.
Familiarity breeds contempt; adopting familiar shapes, while playing a humorous game of the denial of identity, leads to seduction. It’s a matter of timing, of playing hard to get – deferring the gratification of recognition.”
Sarah Kent. Time Out.
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Zones:
"The forms and ideas were developed from scientific 'boundary' data, invisible zones revealed by flight technology, that were digitally converted into line drawings and used as working templates.
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"The latest versions use reclaimed sandstone, gathered originally to create a commission for a charity auction. One of the challenges set after moving to Thornhill from London was to use a traditional local material rather than the manufactured materials I had used in my work before."
Metals.
“I was working with reactive materials, with exhausted processes, alchemy, the actions of decay, heat and light on salts and metals. The first pieces were based on observation, and later the scientific information gave me a numerical series to work with in drawings, leading to a single sculptural object.”
Selected CV
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Royal College of Art. Sculpture School. M.A.
Group Exhibitions.
1993 Morley Gallery, London
1994 ‘Big Sky’, Tricycle Gallery, London.
2001 Objects, Yurakucho, Tokyo.
2006 Fieldgate Gallery, 'Houses in Motion'.
​2012 UAL Camberwell 'Outlook'
Solo Exhibitions.
1992 Cooperage, Brick Lane, London. Whitechapel Open.
1994 Atlantis Gallery, London.
1995 Tricycle gallery London.
1996 Whitechapel open/ Orsman Road, London.
2000 Nature and City’ Standort Ausstellungshalle, Frankfurt am Main.
Publications.
1995 Time Out, Sarah Kent. David Fusco at the Tricycle Gallery.
1995 Guardian, ‘A Brush With Genius’.
1997 Art in the Workplace, BBC Radio 4.
1998 ‘Art at the Airports’ BAA Catalogue
1999 ‘Reform’, Collaboration Project. ISBN 0 9535767 01
2000 ‘Erst die Dinge, dann wir’ Frankfurt Randszhar.
2001 Rein-Main-Aktuell. / Art Kaleidescope, Frankfurt.
2006 Tate Gallery Website, David Fusco to Nigel Bents.
Work in Public Collections.
B.A.A. Collection, installation at Heathrow Airport.
Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Railtrack Norwich.
Norwich : Railtrack.
BAA Heathrow: Corridor installation, Studio record.