This focused exhibition presents works
by figurative sculptor Ghisha Koenig (1921 - 1993).
Not exact matches
It features works
by abstract and
figurative painters and
sculptors, as well as pioneers of installation and performance art.
DHC / ART is delighted to present two concurrent solo exhibitions
by acclaimed Belgian
sculptor Berlinde De Bruyckere and American painter John Currin — two leading international
figurative artists working in a virtuosic, old masterly tradition yet testing and expanding the parameters of their respective disciplines.
DHC / ART is delighted to present a solo exhibitions
by acclaimed Belgian
sculptor Berlinde De Bruyckere, a leading international
figurative artist working in a virtuosic, old masterly tradition yet testing and expanding the parameters of their discipline.
On display are Magdalena Abakanowicz» Hurma, an epic
figurative environment
by the Polish
sculptor; Isaac Julien's Western Union: Small Boats, a video installation on migration and the hope for a better life; George Osodi's Oil Rich Niger Delta, a photographic essay on the people of Nigeria; and Photography and Sculpture: A Correlated Exhibition (new and vintage photography linked to contemporary sculpture).
Having first met with some success as a
figurative sculptor,
by the end of the 1960s he was making a new sort of utterly abstract sculpture.
Partly responding to an upward - spiraling art market, partly from a lack of means to evoke a stressed - out world made porous
by virtual reality,
sculptors from Paul McCarthy and Urs Fischer to David Altmejd and Thomas Houseago have powered a new monstrosity in
figurative sculpture.
These works,
by various artists, photographers, painters,
sculptors are mostly
figurative.
The English
sculptor Henry Moore (1898 - 1986) brought about a renewed interest in direct carving and enriched the formal vocabulary of the medium
by his continuous examination of
figurative motifs and abstract shapes derived from natural phenomena.
Elizabeth Jaeger is a New York based
sculptor who explores notions of memento mori
by embedding emotions and experiences within handmade representations of everyday objects and
figurative sculptures.
Cady Noland, for example, who holds the record for the highest price ever paid for an artwork
by a living woman ($ 6.6 m), is a reclusive
figurative sculptor whose work explores the sordid underbelly of the American dream.
Although realist sculpture first emerged in the form of portrait busts of Roman Emperors (compare these gritty works with romantic Greek sculpture), and was continued most memorably
by sculptors like Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917), it wasn't until the advent of Pop - Art in the 1960s that artists like Duane Hanson (1925 - 96), John De Andrea (b. 1941) and Feuerman began to produce superrealist
figurative sculpture.
Returning to Poland in 1951, she established a reputation as a
figurative sculptor through official commissions, such as the 1953 «Monument to Russian - Polish Friendship», and in 1958 she was one of seven shortlisted artists in an international competition chaired
by Henry Moore to create a memorial to Auschwitz.
All - media artists,
sculptors, and photographers have created visual works interpreting a «
figurative» theme in multiple ways: thorough the human form, or
by exploring a broader interpretation of the theme, such as figures of speech.
All - media artists,
sculptors, and photographers are invited to create visual works that interpret the theme «Figuratively Speaking» in two different ways:
by depicting human forms, faces and features in representational or abstract works (portraiture, sculpture and all subject matter including people); or works which depict a broader interpretation of the theme, such as
figurative language and figures of speech.