Not exact matches
The heads presage a self - portrait print from 1990, displayed nearby, as well as the soft
fabric figurative sculptures that Bourgeois took up in the late»90s.
Since the early 1990s Lappas has become recognizable with his monochromatic,
figurative sculptures, in human scale, assembled with materials such as steel, aluminium, plastic, polyester,
fabrics and neon.
This
figurative sculpture made from frozen
fabric is the first work I saw on entering the fair and it's a perfect representation of the fair in taking a typically European
sculpture pose and infusing it with African influence.
Filling the rear part of CHARLIE SMITH is Joshua Raffell — a graduate of Chelsea College of Art and Design — with another his mixed media
figurative sculptures; provocative and a little disturbing — a patchwork grotesque, the artist's puppet - like figures — sometimes kinetic in nature — are like a Frankenstein's monster with an overt sexuality stitched into the intricate detail of colourful
fabrics alluding to taboos that would normally illicit the opposite response in society.