File:Heide Fasnacht Demo 2000.jpg

Sculpture by Heide Fasnacht, Demo (graphite powder in matte medium on neoprene and styrofoam, 112" x 125" x 120", 2000). The image illustrates a mid-career stage and body of work in Heide Fasnacht's career beginning in the mid-1990s, after she shifted from abstraction to sculptural works based on pre-existing photographs (often stop-action) from dated science textbooks and magazines. These works depicted ephemeral, sudden or violent events—in this case, a building demolition. Fasnacht froze them in time in abstract or cartoony fashion using molded polymer, wire and neoprene sprayed through mesh as objects of contemplation. Works such as this one, dated 2000, from 2000 were later noted for their uncanny prophetic quality in light of the subsequent 9-11 attacks. This work and similar works have been publicly exhibited in prominent venues, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications, and acquired by museums.

Artist Heide Fasnacht. Copyright held by the artist.

Heide Fasnacht

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a mid-career stage and body of work in Heide Fasnacht's career beginning in the mid-1990s: her sculptural works based on pre-existing photographs (often stop-action) from dated science textbooks and magazines, which depicted ephemeral, sudden or violent events involving wind, air, movement and space and ranging from sneezes to explosions, demolitions and natural phenomena. These works issued from walls or erupted from floors, freezing such events in abstract or cartoony fashion for contemplation in terms of visual pleasure, danger, wonder, intellectual stimulation, and absurd humor. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to visualize this key, developmental phase in her career, which brought widespread recognition through exhibition in major venues, coverage by major critics in publications and books, and museum acquisitions. Fasnacht's work of this type and this work in particular is discussed in the article and by prominent critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Heide Fasnacht, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.