Harmony 3
Dan Kainz
1993
MATERIAL: stone: Vermont marble
DIMENSIONS: overall: 68 in x 106 in x 78 in
EDITION: Unique
CREDIT: Grounds For Sculpture, Gift of The Seward Johnson Atelier
© Artist or Artist's Estate
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In the summer of 1993, Daniel Kainz was one of thirteen sculptors invited to partake in the Allentown sculpture workshop sponsored by Philip and Muriel Berman. For three weeks, he and his colleagues were given virtually free reign of two workshops, a factory stocked with state-of-the-art tools, machinery, materials, cranes, and anything else necessary to create monumental, finished sculptures. Kainz participated in the project and also ran the workshop’s stone yard. In the Spring/Summer Exhibition of 1995, Grounds For Sculpture exhibited nineteen works, some of which were made during the Allentown workshop and others made by the original thirteen participants and other artists at the same facilities. This group of works included Kainz’s ‘Harmony 3’, now part of the GFS collection.
‘Harmony 3’ was made by placing a single block of stone on a rotating turntable while a vertical blade made successive cuts to form a dynamic cascade of delicate ridges. The natural gray veins of the marble run along the twisting vortex of the interior to create a visual counterpoint to the horizontal cuts. The more natural, roughly finished exterior combined with the wave-like interior invites metaphorical references to landscape as they demonstrate the artist’s appreciation and understanding of the inherent character of the stone and an eloquent mastery of technique and materials.
