Awful as the Clam Diggers mostly are, they preserve
body fragments as tabletop sculpture.
Many of his works used metonymic representation of
gendered body fragments in ways that reflected surrealist roots.
Now, as then, The Uncanny brings together a wide range of figurative sculptures, mannequins, dummies and sex - dolls, animatronic puppets, body - casts and
anatomical body fragments and models, religious statuary, stuffed animals, photographs, film stills and photographic archive material; as well as Kelley's own oddball collections of ephemera, which he calls his «harems», and which are now in the possession of another Los Angeles collector.
Other artists seminal in using the body as a metaphor for psychological conditions are Bruce Nauman, whose severed heads are forever frustrated in their inability to communicate with the rest of the body, and Louise Bourgeois, whose assemblages of
cast body fragments and objects inside cubelike interiors, or «cells,» as she calls them, are the symbolic plasma of an individual.
With their striking materiality and their folds — which seem to shape sexual organs, nipples, navels and skin marks — the objects reveal themselves as
nude body fragments, confronting the spectator.
Perhaps the photographic work on the wall reinforces the impression of the sculpture to question perception, just as the skin tone grid pressed
onto body fragments reorganizes and redirects our vision.
The harmful allergen they create comes from their fecal pellets and
body fragments.
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The exhibition contains work from all areas of Mapplethorpe's principal aesthetic interests including; still lifes, portraits, figure studies, flowers,
body fragments and classical statues.
The selection of silver gelatin prints represents several areas of Mapplethorpe's aesthetic interests including; still lifes, portraits, figure studies,
body fragments and classical statues which facilitate the unique opportunity to see Mapplethorpe's work through the matrix of Neoclassicism.
Known for highly sensual, abstract oil paintings that appear to be word forms,
body fragments, or unidentifiable shapes, their ambiguities are grounded by an involved relationship to the materiality of paint and an investigation of colour.
Several of the works present a type of disembodiment and
body fragments - finger - tips cast in gold, hands and feet cast in bronze, a gilded skull - suspended from the ceiling and grounded by circles of translucent alabaster on the floor.