Sentences with phrase «cast body fragments»
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.
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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.
This body of work continues Ostoff's exploration of objects and spaces within the interior domestic sphere — cast shadows, reflected light, random surface marks, and fragments of commonplace objects, the type of overlooked elements one might find half - concealed in the background of a generic family snapshot — with the aim of addressing both memory, and the unheimlich (Freud's term for the «estranged familiar»).
Casts of dried mud dislodged whole from the body, or mummified fragments: Embodied Forms, the first exhibition dedicated to the work of Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz since her death last year at 86, welcomes us with arms, formed or partially formed up to the elbow, from resin - stiffened burlap (From the Anatomy Cycle: Anatomy 21, 29 & 32, 2009)
The diverse body of work includes Anish Kapoor's wood fragments in red Perspex box, Douglas Gordon's burnt wood cast in bronze and Grayson Perry's ceramic with the words «Art is dead.
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.