Building the boxes is one thing... but the real difficulty is the joinery. That's a tremendous amount of work particularly if something has to join at two points, so that was really brutal. I decided to use wedges, each connection where there was a separation there would be a wedge of natural wood and in that wedge there'd be a mechanical connection but it's the mechanical connections that are so difficult. It's the structure of the piece, otherwise you don't take the form itself and alter the form, you make the connection to fit the form and I think that's hard to do and that's what took so much time.

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Joel Shapiro, the eminent sculptor, was invited by the Musée d&apos;Orsay in Paris to participate in their project series titled Correspondences, the aim of which was to achieve new insights into the complexity of art through confronti...

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Joel Shapiro: 20 Elements

Joel Shapiro, the eminent sculptor, was invited by the Musée d&apos;Orsay to participate in their project series Correspondences, the aim of which was to achieve new insights into the complexity of art through confronting the museum&apos;s masterpieces with ambitious contemporary works. Opting to juxtapose Carpeaux&apos;s La Danse, Shapiro is questioned by curators on the issues of this daring engagement.

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Joel Shapiro, the eminent sculptor, was invited by the Musée d'Orsay in Paris to participate in their project series titled Correspondences, the aim of which was to achieve new insights into the complexity of art through confronting some of the museum's masterpieces with ambitious contemporary works. Shapiro chose to juxtapose Jean Baptiste Carpeaux's La Danse, a large-scale manifestation of human sensuality which once adorned the exterior of the Paris Opera. The camera follows the assembly of 20 boldly colored wooden elements, a shining example of Shapiro's brilliant use of joinery, as the artist and two assistants work on putting the sculpture together and placing it in just the right spot in relation to La Danse. The film represents a unique opportunity to meet the artist and experience a rare art historical event as historians and curators question him on the issues of this daring engagement with Carpeaux.

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