Michael Ross

For nearly 30 years, MICHAEL ROSS (1954, USA), who lives and works in New York, has created smallscale sculptures employing unexpected combinations of everyday elements and materials. Within the space of a few inches or even less, bits, parts, scraps and fragments of forgotten things, his anti-heroic and uncompromised world resonates. Ross has created several works in public spaces which subtly interact with civic space. In Venice, a small buoyant sculpture containing a triangle of Venetian glass floated down a canal; on the streets of Tokyo, micro-texts composed by the artist and engraved onto steel utility poles presented haiku of celestial activity. Ross’ enigmatic sculptures and public gestures transform ordinary places and things into a mysterious and poetic vision.

Sindre Andersen is a Norwegian translator and critic.

In his essay on Michael Ross’ work Tre Eventyr (Three Fairy Tales), he draws on Astrid Lindgren’s classic adventure novel Mio, my Mio.

Read the essay here:
THE FAIRY-TALE THAT WHISPERED ITSELF