Sentences with phrase «cast iron sculptures»

Thames Water, Nicolas Deshayes» first solo exhibition at Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London, comprises a series of new cast iron sculptures, made by the artist with an industrial foundry in the British Midlands.
He's presenting two cast iron sculptures and a bronze work.
Shawcross, the youngest living Royal Academician, is currently fabricating a series of cast iron sculptures for Dulwich Park, which will be launched to the public on 18 April 2015.
Described by the artist as «visual descriptions of musical chords», Three Perpetual Chords is a series of monumental, spheroidal, cast iron sculptures.
Three Perpetual Chords honours the park's original sculpture by Barbara Hepworth with a series of cast iron sculptures, each created in relation to the mathematical patterns found in music.
MEMES featured 33 small - scale cast iron sculptures from the series of the same name which Antony Gormley started in 2007.
Gormley's most famous works include Event Horizon (a project consisting of 31 life - size male bodies installed separately in Rio, Sao Paulo, NYC, and London), Another Place (100 cast iron sculptures of the artist's own body installed at Crosby Beach), and the monumental installation Angel of the North near Gateshead.
In addition to this minimalist work by Carl Andre will be a cast iron sculpture by Joel Shapiro.
The Iron Root by Ai Weiwei, is a cast iron sculpture of a tree root sprayed in purple car paint, closely connected to the trees currently on display at the Royal Academy of Arts in London for Ai's retrospective and celebration of the artist becoming a Royal Academician; juxtaposed with the carbon monochrome reflections from the concave sculpture Untitled (Storm Grey) 2015 by Kapoor.
A monumental cast iron sculpture by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa has been purchased by the Toledo Museum of Art.
A cast iron sculpture by Antony Gormley on a rocky beach battered by the elements is unlikely to be reinstated after falling over for a second time.
Untitled wrought iron, glass, and cast iron sculpture by Rosemarie Trockel.

Not exact matches

The 27 rooms feature hand - painted Mexican tiles, hand - made cast iron beds, prints, sculptures and colonial - style furniture.
Set out to explore the Vigeland Sculpture Park, a magical landscape decorated with more than 200 stone, bronze, and cast - iron sculptures by native artist Gustav Vigeland.
Her glass figures combine life - size blown - glass sculptures with cast iron and steel, merging the fluidity of glass with the strength of metal.
His sculptures are modelled in clay and afterwards casted in plaster or they are constructed around an iron formwork and covered with plaster.
In this video, Sakshi Gupta talks about her work Strange Beginnings I, a sculpture made of cast cement, iron sheet and bird feathers.
John Chamberlain's galvanized iron sculpture imposed itself dramatically at the entrance while Dan Flavin's bold red florescent sculpture defined the corner of the back room and cast a glow over the entire space.
Gravitas was well rewarded, however; a wall of Louise Bourgeois gouaches at Hauser & Wirth, an Antony Gormley cast - iron Prop lV at Sean Kelly, a gleaming stainless steel Saint Clair Cemin at Paul Kasmin, and Lygia Clark's interlocking sculptures — all sold the first day.
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Landmark Trust, the exhibition LAND, which first opened in May 2015, comprises distinct life - size standing sculptures cast in iron at five Landmark Trust sites.
In June eleven sculptures were installed throughout the public spaces of Bordeaux, France for the exhibition Jaume Plensa in Bordeaux and two cast iron heads, Marianna W and Chloe, were show in the UK.
Although trained as a painter at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, New York — based artist Lionel Maunz works primarily in iron, steel, and concrete sculpture, employing casting as an integral part of his methodology, as well as delicate drawings in graphite on paper.
Although trained as a painter at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, the artist works primarily in iron, steel, and concrete sculpture, employing casting as an integral part of his methodology, as well as delicate drawings in graphite on paper.
Previous iterations of the sculptures were made in solid Jesmonite or cast iron.
Lehmann Maupin Gallery have the honour of presenting a solo show by English artist Tracey Emin, entitled I Fell in Love, the show will debut the artists bronze sculpture The Heart Has Its Reasons while the Sean Kelly Gallery will feature works from esteemed British sculptor Antony Gormley, famed for his giant Angel of the North sculpture located in Gateshead, UK and his Another Place work that saw the sculptor place 100 cast iron figures facing out to sea on Crosby Beach near Liverpool in the UK.
The fourteen - piece retrospective — ranging from 1988's Shallow Breath to two substantial sculptures realized this year, including a cast - iron floor piece — emphasizes the formal, «minimalist» containment of Whiteread's casts rather than their petrified histories and content.
The methodically placed cast iron and concrete sculptures stand and lay around the gallery, feeling neither cluttered nor sparse.
Each of those three will show different examples of Mr. Ai's recent sculpture, which include symbols of uprootedness and displacement, such as cast - iron tree trunks.
For example, his 1979 sculpture Big Wheel combines a stabilized motorcycle that, when the engine is revved, spins a massive antique cast - iron flywheel set behind the driver.
In the early 1970s, when sculpture was ruled by modernist monuments and Minimalist hulks, Joel Shapiro caused a sensation when he placed three - inch - high bronze or cast - iron domestic objects — a chair, a dollhouse, a coffin, a bird — on the floor of Paula Cooper's SoHo gallery.
REFLECTION, 2001 Cast iron 191 x 68 x 37 cm (2 bodyforms) QUANTUM CLOUD XXIII, 2000 Stainless steel bar, 4.76 mm x 4.76 mm 243 x 152 x 146 cm Installation view, Contemporary Sculpture Centre, Tokyo, Japan, 2001
REFLECTION, 2001 Cast iron 191 x 68 x 37 cm (2 bodyforms) Installation view, Contemporary Sculpture Centre, Tokyo, Japan, 2001
ANOTHER TIME is a series of one hundred, solid cast - iron figures by Antony Gormley who is known for his sculptures and installations that explore the experience of being human, of inhabiting a human body.
Made from iron, a material more usually associated with heavy industry, the industrial method of casting the sculpture is readable on its surface, whilst invisible joint lines reveal the way the plaster mould was divided and reassembled prior to casting.
Exploring the aesthetics of self - destruction, Lionel Maunz uses cast iron, concrete, and steel to create dystopian figurative sculptures — surprisingly organic forms that appear distorted by dismemberment and decay.
Antony Gormley has created over two thousand sculptures based on his own body, the greatest of which is arguably the cast iron «Angel of the North» which towers over the landscape and has become a British landmark.
Its title gives it away as a statement against Anthony Gormley's «Angel of the North», a popular public sculpture, but Perry's terracotta - colored, infant - sized cast iron «coffin» also borrows imagery from medieval cathedrals and African bronzes.
Meanwhile, his bronze Insects (cast from his earlier 1950s iron sculptures) stand as sculptural counterparts to Bernard Buffet's Le Coq Rouge (1959), which depicts a rooster in the artist's recognizably brutalist style.
A multi-disciplinary endeavor, METAL: The Exhibition will include cast, fabricated and free - formed metal sculptures and molten iron drawings by Michael Dominick.
In 1968, Donald Judd — the artist known for his boxy, implacable sculptures and wall pieces — paid $ 68,000 for 101 Spring Street, a graceful but dilapidated five - story cast - iron building, and began his renovation by hauling out truckloads of trash.
On 7 September 2016 as part of Antony Gormley — OBJECT, his first display at the National Portrait Gallery, a cast - iron sculpture cast from the artist's body will be suspended from the ceiling of the Main Hall.
Most famous for his Angel of the North sculpture, the artist has developed this series titled Another Time which includes 100 solid cast iron figures presented across the UK and other parts of the world.
Among these are Negev at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1987; Space of Dragon, Olympic Park, Seoul, South Korea, 1985; Becalmed Beings, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan, 1993; Space of Unknown Growth, Europos Parkas, Vilnius, Lithuania, 1997 - 98; Unrecognized, Citadel Park, Poznan, Poland, 2002; Space of Stone, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey, 2003; and her last major public work, Agora, a sculptural group comprised of 106 unique cast - iron figures measuring over nine - feet tall permanently installed in Chicago's Grant Park in 2006.
Conceived by Deshayes as an ode to the river Thames and the city of London, the exhibition draws a parallel between the sculptures» cast iron material and its decorative and functional use in urban elements such as radiators, cookware, bollards and architectural ornament.
Standing at more than 22 feet tall, the iron pieces that comprise the sculpture were cast from tree elements found around the southern China.
For the event, the artist has populated the gallery with felled, cast - iron tree trunks, nearly sixteen feet in length, and a series of iron root sculptures set against the backdrop of a new wallpaper installation.
Mr. Ropac, who also has spaces in Paris and Salzburg, Austria, debuted at 37 Dover Street in London with four presentations, two of which combine works on loan and for sale: Early - 1970s Gilbert & George videos and photographic «Drinking Pieces,» one of which is available for 145,000 pounds, or about $ 185,000, and another at 150,000; Conceptual and Minimal works from the collection of Egidio Marzona (prices yet to be disclosed); new works by the British sound sculptor Oliver Beer, priced at # 10,000 to # 100,000; and early drawings by Joseph Beuys, shown alongside the enigmatic cast - iron sculpture «Backrest of a Fine - Limbed Person (Hare - Type) of the 20th Century A.D.,» dating from 1972 to 1982 and on sale for 2.5 million euros.
Examples include Still Falling, 1991, a massive cast iron and air sculpture by Antony Gormley and Juan Muñoz's Dublin Rain Room, 1994, a scale model of one of the gallery spaces where it perpetually rains indoors.
Artworks will include two new sculptures made in cast iron that stand 21 feet tall, the monumental icon House of Knowledge, and several new works continuing Plensa's exploration of the human figure created through language and symbols.
Though fabricated in cast iron, the sculpture appears like a hologram, fugitive despite its great materiality.
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