In Eva Rothschild's sculptures, the magical meets the minimal. The artist has inherited certain formal concerns from artists of the 1960s and 1970s, but she is also inspired by mysticism and new-age spiritual practices. Rothschild harnesses these diverse influences by using evocative materials, such as leather fringe and incense sticks, and by mining an archive of universally resonant forms, such as spheres and pyramids. In works like Stalker, she uses narrow strips of wood and transparent acrylic to outline a series of pyramids or temple-like structures. She is particularly interested in the way objects have a power over us, especially in relation to religious thought and superstition. This is reflected in her fascination with sacred or lucky symbols, ranging from spheres and pyramids to new age charms. In this way, competing influences are combined to create hybrid forms that explore how meaning is ascribed to things.
In ?s oeuvre, the insignia of Modernity are subverted by irrationality, emotionality and unsettling contents; perhaps for this very reason they cast the viewer's possible projections back onto him. The works in black Plexiglas, in which Rothschild takes upright triangular forms and dovetails them using various different combinatorial systems to generate a kind of kit-like Serra sculpture, both trivialize and reactivate abstract shapes and their reception. Eva Rothschild is interested in the reasons why certain things or objects amount to more than the pure material properties. She is interested in the intellectual desire that, in the form of projections, focuses on the objects.There's the sense that the colours are relatively new - you definitely wouldn't find them in a Renaissance painting, they seem to have originated with dye technology in the 1960s. They're quite flat, but can become three-dimensional depending on how the colours lie together. They're also very harsh, a short-hand for a forcefulness that isn't easy to ignore, while some of the subjects I use are very romantic. I like that mixture.