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Sara Rees Comments:
  The word 'eurhythmy' relates to structure, order and harmony, and also to the expression of the spirit of music through bodily movements. Eu, meaning good [via Latin from Greek] and rhuthmos, meaning proportion. Through an exploration and application of Classic principles of form, Andrew Cooper has created an inter-active sculptural work. 
   Appropriately occupying 'centre stage' in the Glassworks show is Cooper's Eurhythmy - a large glass house, which stands on a lawn of green rubber. Both in and around the glass room are a series of structures, of varying heights, made from the bottle-green glass plates of electricity pylons, acting as conductors. Outside the room, these are free standing, while within they are suspended from rafters, hovering low above the ground. Cooper has created a glass forest, a strange space in which one's movements provide triggers for sound. It is a sonic chamber, an alchemical vessel, in which movement is transformed into sound. The viewer also becomes part of the sculpture visually, as he/she moves within, observed by others outside. 
    Experiencing Eurhythmy may cause us to reflect on the nature of our relationships - with our environment, with others, and with the world. One moves intimately amongst these structures, as in the city amongst people, or a forest through trees, and our actions have an impact. It has been built both in ralation to human form and to the larger space in which it stands. Indeed, one could read this as a site-specific work, for it's scale in terms of the space has such a pleasing effect of 'rightness', while its structure echoes the unique idiosyncrasies of the architecture of the space. This concern with architecture is further demonstrated by the presence of three architectural drawings against the back wall.

©Andrew Cooper 2000 Produced by Beaulieu Associates