Within the sculpture garden larger scale
bronze works such as Four - Square Walk Through and Sphere with Inner Forms can be found.
Not exact matches
Other highlights include Fawn and Snag, two remarkable
bronze works from 1944, and earlier
works such as the untitled brightly coloured standing mobile from around 1942 that Calder gifted to his good friend, the artist Jean Hélion.
Marcel Wanders» total environment will include several bodies of
work: large abstract figural mirrors,
such as Dysmorphophobia 1, 2 and 3, with carved details and cutouts, create an illusion of a character or ghostly figure; Self 2 is a steel cabinet and kinetic piece, balancing a sculptural ovoid form that abstracts a human head and physically rocks on the top surface; Tempter, an over-sized adult rocking unicorn is cast in
bronze with metal chain stirrups; Shiqule Nuhai, two ceramic vases, monumental in height, reference Marcel Wanders» Delft Blue collection with a darker sensibility, using black glaze.
His later
works,
such as plaster pianos, blue Murano glass musical instruments and
bronze and ceramic turtles, achieve a perfect equilibrium between conceptual conviction and aesthetic concerns, and also reflect a real pleasure of making.
In more recent
works such as Pile (2004), a painted
bronze sculpture of a pile of garbage bags, Turk explores the way in which a
work of art is conferred with iconic status and value.
While related
works such as the Hotel Grand series of gouaches, the
bronze I Wanted You More (which mirrors the pose in the photograph) and the neon texts all address the perplexing inability to recall sexual intimacy, Emin further extends the theme of the exhibition — in
works such as I waited and sat by your side and GONE — to reflect an altogether different kind of loss, that of bereavement.
Drawing upon traditional and newer forms of craftsmanship, her
work employs a variety of materials
such as
bronze, plaster, glass, porcelain, paper, aluminum, latex, feathers or beeswax.
Pushing personal boundaries still at the age of eighty - five this is the first time Kusama has
worked with
bronze on
such a large scale.
The signature unorthodox, «poor» materials in his
works include steel tubes, cloth, newspapers, and wax; [3] the artist, however, often used also traditional and expensive art materials
such as gold, marble, and
bronze.
To Snitzer's point, there was a great deal of exhaustively manipulated
work; Syrian photographer Hrair Sarkissian recreated and destroyed an architecturally exact model of the house his parents are still living in, Urs Fischer planted an elaborate installation under a flurry of green raindrops, and Mickalene Thomas crafted a walk - in room in homage to her mother that recreated her lamp, favourite chair and a diary of personal items
such as lipsticks, jewellery and underwear cast in
bronze.
Fantastic and exotic representational subjects sourced from objects found in nature
such as dried plant detritus, (leaves, pods, twigs, etc...) are ruminated over, then transformed into
bronzes and paintings in this most recent solo exhibit of Kat's
work.
Influenced by artists
such as Michelangelo Pistoletto, Turk's skilful manipulation of materials was evident throughout the show, for example in his exquisitely - cast
bronze rubbish bags, and with the major sculptural
work Ariadne (2006 — 2014).
Another
work, This second Dreamer, 2017, a
bronze female head with a braided crown that lies sleeping on a large wooden block, reclaims the appropriated African masks that influenced a generation of modernist sculptors (
such as Constantin Brancusi).
Though absent of the wax batik textiles Shonibare typically uses, this new body of
work translates
such patterns and colours into mural painting,
bronze sculptures and screen prints, producing fantastical reimaginings of some of art history's most sacred figures.
For the next three decades, Dehner experimented with an array of materials, starting with rectilinear, Surrealism - influenced cast
bronze, which resulted in
works such as her totem - like «Cenotaph» and «Ladder» series.
Works in Lucite, bronze, and steel span Safer's career and will include early geometric works such as Cube on Cube, 1969 and lyrical forms that evoke the movements of athletes and dancers such as Serve, 1989 and Dancer and the Dance,
Works in Lucite,
bronze, and steel span Safer's career and will include early geometric
works such as Cube on Cube, 1969 and lyrical forms that evoke the movements of athletes and dancers such as Serve, 1989 and Dancer and the Dance,
works such as Cube on Cube, 1969 and lyrical forms that evoke the movements of athletes and dancers
such as Serve, 1989 and Dancer and the Dance, 1993.
«I give the State all my
works in marble,
bronze and stone, together with my drawings and the collection of antiquities that I had
such pleasure in assembling -LSB-...] And I ask the state to keep all these collections in the Hôtel Biron, which will become the Musée Rodin, preserving the right to reside there for the rest of my life.»
The
works consist of traditional materials
such as
bronze, wood and metal; but each is characterized...
Throughout Akashi's
work, glass forms are often placed in combination with other objects,
such as candles and lost - wax
bronze casts.
In 1972, de Kooning made several figures related to the paintings that immediately preceded his
work with sculpture,
such as Cross-legged Figure (1972), a
bronze figure twisted around a central axis with its limbs flayed outwards.
Renowned for her ability to
work with a variety media, in her practice Chu integrates wood,
bronze, ceramic, resin and fabric in
such...
Students will have the opportunity to
work in traditional mediums
such as — clay,
bronze, wood, steel, and plaster.
This is an artist with a rich technical vocabulary, unique vision and unsurpassed skill, who is just as comfortable
working with unconventional materials
such as glass tableware, thousands of dice stacked together to form fluid overlapping folds, found objects, and plastics, as he is with the more accepted media,
such as perforated steel, wood or
bronze.
Through their
work in traditional Chinese media like porcelain,
bronze, and painting as well as radical forms of expression that relate to destruction
such as ash and razor blades, each has helped inform China's subsequent outlook on its history.
He also
works with traditional materials
such as
bronze and marble.
Attending the University of Houston to attain his BFA, then acquiring his MFA at University of Texas at San Antonio, Gregory's
work became more concept - driven, using materials
such as
bronze, resin, and even assemblage.
Luciano Fabro thrived in
works that treated sensibility and seeing as symbiotic.His later and more mature pieces may have employed sumptuous materials
such as silk, marble and
bronze, but the
works of this latest show incorporated experimental artistic poetry that eventually turned out to be the creative roots of the man's near five - decade - long career.
Examples of these are
works such as the melted shelf made of
bronze and patina, Dodge (2012), the chair stamped in a block, Angst / Lache Hochgebirge, and Toilet made of compressed wood and resin (both of 2014), the exaggeratedly huge clock, Lost (2015), the cabinet that seems to have been bashed in, First Ascent — North Wall (2016), among others.
The imagery of the gum and eraser sculptures is also manifest in larger single ceramic and
bronze works, and latex pieces
such as Pink Champagne (1975), a large - scale petal - like structure which in all its fleshy pink and tactile softness becomes a highly sensuous and seductive evocation of the female form.
After leaving art school, Gangloff
worked in a
bronze foundry and made illustrations for publications
such as the New York Times, the New Yorker, Spin Magazine, and Built by Wendy.
When his pieces were initially exhibited by Castelli Gallery in the 1960s, Sonnier set a precedent for abandoning the rules of traditional sculpture, forgoing the pedestal to create wall - based
works and trading traditional media
such as
bronze and marble for unconventional and psychologically loaded materials,
such as cloth and latex.
Like his earlier
works, these pieces are assembled from found materials
such as pieces of wood or packaging, or cast in
bronze and covered in white paint and plaster.
Though there is an element of public sculpture in Shapiro's
work — Verge (2003 — 08), a commission for the nearby 23 Savile Row, comprises four
bronze cuboids that seem to hover above the street — for the most part its energies are turned inwards, creating private experiences, seemingly untroubled by the political ambitions that often breathe life into
such projects.
In his sculptural
works that explore materials
such as
bronze and ceramic, the artist makes physical some of his more curious and eccentric propositions by transforming found objects or by playing with their scale.
In this show of recent
work, «Signal,» he presented eight preliminary drawings and eight sculptures made of materials
such as painted cherry and poplar wood, along with steel, aluminum, and
bronze.
An extensive plates section surveys her
work since 1996, covering the full range of sculpture in clay,
bronze, and steel, as well as in less traditional materials,
such as neon.
Sculptural
works based on forgotten, neo-gothic statues,
such as La Pêche Clockwise (2011) and La Pêche Counterclockwise (2011), are also re / deformed into tornados of sumptuous nickled -
bronze to disrupt established ideas and liberate interpretations.
By the 1960's, Bourgeois began using materials
such as rubber,
bronze, and stone and the
works themselves became larger in size.
Cragg's
work in his forthcoming exhibition at Lisson Gallery will be made from materials
such as stone, kevlar (carbon fibre)
bronze and wood.
Ericsson constructs his
work using traditional art materials
such as canvas,
bronze, photography, and clay as well as video, found objects, and artifacts taken from his family archives.
Inspired by masters
such as Marino Marini and Henry Moore, Caroline d'Andlau's
work comprises original linear
bronze female nudes, animals and figured groupings, the latter including Massai warriors.
Though comparisons to other large - scale
works,
such as Claes Oldenburg's oversized soft sculpture, Jeff Koon's giant outdoor kitsch, or Louise Bourgeois» huge
bronze spiders may come to mind, Busby did not arrive in the art world via the art historical canon.
Since the 1970s, he has consistently traveled throughout Africa, which is often reflected in his titles,
such as Igun Eronmwon (1993), a street in Benin City, Nigeria where
bronze casting families live and
work.
Alongside her neo-folk paintings, Los Angeles - based artist Ruby Neri (b. 1970, United States) has been experimenting with sculpture in a series of
works made by assembling disparate materials
such as ceramics,
bronze, plaster, and found objects.
Drawing inspiration from the Renaissance cabinets de curiosites (intimate and private spaces for the collector but also workshops for scientific research),» Freedom Not Genius» is crowded with stuffed animals from various periods; anatomical studies and
bronze casts; an 18th - century plaster cast of a horse's leg; drawings of African mammals; and more recent
works by artists
such as Banksy, Marcus Harvey, Michael Joo, Sean Landers and Colin Lowe, recreating the imaginary animal world that attracts Hirst the collector.
Embodying Hepworth's investigations of abstraction and the body, A Matter of Form includes
works in a range media — from
bronze and marble to mahogany and aluminum — as well as sculptures from across Hepworth's thematic range —
such as relationships between mother and child, man and nature, and the individual to the group.
In his latest
work, Shonibare removes the fabric altogether, employing instead the batik designs in new modes
such as mural painting,
bronze sculpture, screen prints on canvas and classical sculpture.
They may also be seen in the context of Moore's totemic
bronzes,
such as Upright Motive No. 1 Glenkiln Cross, 1955 - 6 (Alan Bowness ed., Henry Moore Sculpture and Drawings, Volume 3: Sculpture 1955 - 64, 1965, LH 377, pls.18 - 20), and the columnar
works of William Turnbull,
such as Janus 2, 1959 (Tate Gallery T01382, repr.
Often making reference to Italy's history and culture in his
works, he has employed traditional mediums
such as
bronze sculpture, mural painting, and mosaic, and often references Italian Futurism, aiming to connect the present and the past.
Nash's metal
works explore fundamental shapes
such as the cross, or expertly mimic the surface of his charred wooden sculptures, which are then cast in
bronze.