Charles Ginnever, Visiting Artist Lecture 1977

Charles Ginnever gives a lecture at Skowhegan talking about his sculpture practice and his time living in Paris and San Francisco which has had an important impact on him as an artist. Ginnever utilizes a wide range of materials in his work ranging from wood, plexiglass, metal, and steel. Ginnever is concerned with the elements and forms of sculpture and creating perceptions of illusion. By creating these perceptions, Ginnever states how he tries to disconnect from the habit one has of looking at things through an instinctive translation. Ginnever explores this by drawing on the renaissance concept of space. Ginnever says how this is a concept of space that is unique to western art and is not something that is paid that much attention in eastern art. Ginnever also tells participants how he is interested in creating the kinds of spaces one also finds in Japanese woodcuts and Chinese landscape paintings; spaces that according to Ginnever deal with reverse perspectives due to their better use of expressing these perspectives.