Glass is experienced in her powerful
cylindrical sculptures as a fascinatingly translucent volume, as a block of matter that one moment ago was liquid and is now solid.
The «Bourke's Luck Potholes» have taken thousands of years to form strange
cylindrical sculptures carved by swirling water.
In the garden, patrons can find Richard Serra's
cylindrical sculpture, One, at the end of a long sloping staircase amidst trees, as well as Mark diSuervo's K Piece, a bright red steel sculpture with an rigid shape befitting its name.
Finally, a last work inhabits the roof terrace; it is
another cylindrical sculpture made of bamboo, aluminium honeycomb and beeswax that stands proudly in the landscape, blending with the other vertical elements of the roof.
Not exact matches
As guests enter the space, they are greeted by a lounge with an undulating seating area crowned with a magnificent
cylindrical hanging light
sculpture made of hundreds of white and gold ceramic fish, swirling to welcome people.
Two rivers meet at the beginning of the Blyde River Canyon and the effect of their tumultuous and consistent swirling has resulted in a series of
cylindrical rock
sculptures in a range of brown, white and yellow.
Also known as giant's kettles, or
cylindrical potholes, there are a number of good vantage points from which to view the natural
sculptures as bridges and walkways criss - cross the formations.
TWO YEARS FROM NOW, in 2017, Los Angeles artist Mark Bradford (above) plans to take full advantage of the unique
cylindrical structure of the Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C..
EXHIBITION Mark Bradford @ Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. (November 2017): Los Angeles - based artist Mark Bradford will take full advantage of the unique
cylindrical structure of the Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., installing a suite of site - specific paintings on the second floor of the Smithsonian museum where the work will occupy the entire circumference of the curved galleries.
Both spaces have been populated by groupings of
sculptures made from pool noodles, colourful
cylindrical flotation devices, which stand in for figures, or in this case, for representations of youthful tribes and typically American sub-cultures.
Roman Gysin, in the Monte Vista Projects / Å + project space created a minute, yet expansive floor
sculpture of tiny pointed
cylindrical shapes, above which a thin rope
sculpture is suspended.
The
cylindrical orange and red shaft emitting a conical gray - white beam — the most overtly representational element in the artist's recent exhibition «Peinture
sculpture peinture» — encouraged viewers to seek out figuration and symbolism in other works on view, which might otherwise be mistaken as exemplars of pure Minimalism.
A similar tension of opposites informed his visual language; although distinctly minimal in composition and form, the active interplay of cuboid and
cylindrical forms infuse his
sculptures with life, whilst in others, it is the reconciliation of that tension that informs their power and elegance.
The emergence of Mono - ha is widely attributed to Sekine's iconic Phase — Mother Earth (1968), a
cylindrical hole in the ground, seven feet wide and nine feet deep, accompanied by an adjacent
cylindrical tower of earth molded into exactly the same dimensions, exhibited at the 1st Contemporary
Sculpture Exhibition at the Suma Rikyu Park in Kobe.
One earthbound
sculpture takes the form of a cluster of
cylindrical vessels resembling earthenware pots or cross-sections of pipe; these sit like archaeological fragments amid a heap of dust — but might as easily be the remnants of a building site as an historical excavation.