"Color Row", sculpture by Sebastian Bieniek, 1999
What is the differance between
Installation Art , "other conceptual art" and
sculpture?
Installation is somehow big. If you can't carry it away it's an Installation.
If it's small enough that you can carry it away and when it's technically not unique (so you can't recognize a signature by the making, or - even - somobody else did it, like the "overpainted Sebastian Bieniek") but - may be - by the "spin" of the idea, than it's Bieniek's "other conceptual art".
And than: sculpture is when it's made by the artist himself and one needs a little "artist like" skills to do it, or at least everbody would do it kind of different, but this "different" was made by the artist himself.
Nevertheless some artwork like "Recycled Sol LeWitt" , or the "The Stolen 100 DM" are still hard to collate. What is it? At the beginning it's "Action Art", than depending on the presentation, it could be an Installation (if you take a lot and make it big), and if you just take (one) the final result could also be a sculpture, but according to the definition "without special skills and skill-signature it's other conceptual art, it's "other conceptual art.
(Bieniek's definition)
The "Color Row", like the "Wood Row", was destroyed by Sebastian Bieniek in 2003 and only exists in photos.
Press on "Color Row" (translated from original German):
... The artist Sebastian Bieniek, on the other hand, tries to make time concretely visible and tangible. For example, he picks up the topmost dried layer from an open bucket of wall paint, places it on a glass, waits and lets the next layer dry. Five pictures are created in this way, the work of art creates itself ... "
DIE TAZ, 19.10.1999 (german daily printed nationwide newspaper)
Original German text:
"...Der Künstler Sebastian Bieniek hingegen versucht die Zeit konkret sichtbar und spürbar zu machen. So hebt er zum Beispiel von geöffneten Eimer Wandfarbe die -jeweils oberste eingetrocknete Schicht ab, legt sie auf ein Glas, wartet und lässt die nächste Schicht trocknen. Fünf bilder entstehen so, das Kunstwerk erschafft sich selbst..."
DIE TAZ, 19.10.1999
"Color Row" (ger. "Farbreihe"), sculpture by Sebastian Bieniek, 1999.