“Yellow
Eight testifies
to Wentworth's affection for the mundane: two galvanised steel buckets have been cut and soldered together to produce a
hybrid, figure-of-eight object that is both single and double. An impression of
water inside the buckets is created by the reflective surface of a highly
polished brass sheet inserted just below the rim. Wentworth has frequently used
buckets in his work. His decision to do so is prompted by a disdain for
monumentality and a penchant for the everyday. His approach typically involves
taking a mundane utilitarian object and transforming its role and identity. He
establishes a double role for such everyday, manufactured objects as ladles,
chairs and disrupts their conventional significance. While he is always careful
to retain the defining characteristics of the objects he works with,
Wentworth's subtle alterations block their usual functions. Everyday household
objects thus assume new identities as works of art, embodying thereafter both
the familiar and the unfamiliar.” [link]
Yellow Eight, 1985
Plume, 2012
World Soup, 1991
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