Sentences with phrase «central floor sculpture»

Here one does best to defer an encounter with de Maria's central floor sculpture until later, so that it serves first as a point of orientation for other, repeated discoveries, rather than a deadening mall.

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Inside, the Si boasts deeply sculptured performance seats, a 60/40 split folding rear seat (which can be folded down completely to create a flat cargo floor), dramatic black - on - white gauges, a silver central control pod, and a thick three - spoke steering wheel.

Returning to the central, almost figural form in the work, its contraposto exposing a skeletal armature that reminded me not only of the macabre Giacometti floor sculpture often called The Rape but of the large grisaille anti-war statement Picasso painted in June and July of 1945, The Charnel House.

In celebration of the American sculptor Joel Shapiro, the Nasher Sculpture Center, which holds six examples of his work in their permanent collection, has unveiled a new piece specifically designed for the central gallery on the ground floor.

The ground floor opens into the 15,000 - square - foot sculpture garden, the museum's central gathering space, which will showcase an annual schedule of site - specific commissions, gifts, and long - term loans, including major sculptural works by both post-war and contemporary artists.

Part of a network of art sites on island developed by Japanese businessman and art collector Soichiro Fukutake, the museum features polished concrete chambers housing the work of three artists: a selection of Claude Monet's water lily paintings (the skylight and glistening mosaic floor creates a shrine - like experience); an installation by Walter de Maria that consists of a central, polished granite sphere sitting on a staircase with surrounding gilded wall sculptures; and three James Turrell light works.

For example, the biomorphic, expressionistic, ungainly weirdness established in a central sculpture by Huma Bhabha in a second floor gallery is echoed in surrounding paintings by Verne Dawson, George Condo, Aurel Schmidt and the fiercely subversive graphic panels of comix iconoclast Robert Williams.