Not exact matches
The C5 and C6 frames used hydroformed side rails — single
pieces of steel tubing running the full length
of the frame,
bent into shape via internal hydraulic pressure.
Spanning two floors
of the 24 Grafton Street location in London, the exhibition will feature works that relate to the artist's ongoing series
of «collage sculptures» begun in 2016, characterized by square
steel tubing that has been crushed and
bent into soft folds that belie their material construction, then painted in a uniform color and variably combined with found
pieces of scrap metal and a smooth, highly polished
steel disk.
Additionally, there are
pieces made
of welded sheets
of bent steel that bring to mind Caro, Richard Serra, and Brian Wall, and seem at first the opposite
of her totemic, hand molded and painted bronze
pieces in the other spaces, the body
of work to which Pas de Deux also belongs.
The large suspended
pieces, each called «Bird Song,» in her third solo at Talwar, are based on armatures made
of stainless -
steel tubing
bent into curves.
One critical step involves short
pieces of steel rod that are
bent and secured around long vertical elements — holding them together like the metal bands wrapping a wooden barrel support the staves.