Not exact matches
► Keep household cleaners, electrical cords, garbage and
fragile objects safely away
from your pet.
Keep household cleaners, electrical cords, and
fragile objects safely away
from your cat.
The
fragile child is able to absorb blood
from any red
object in the environment, and is then able to transfer that blood to
objects lacking life.
Its opening exhibition, «Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 - 2016,» is on par with the best museum exhibitions in ambition and quality, comprising many rare, big and
fragile objects on loan
from some of the major museums of the world.
Drawn primarily
from collections of the Musée Rodin, Paris, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the exhibition brings together more than 200
objects —
fragile plasters, patinated bronzes, marbles, ceramics and works on paper — and examines the artist's creative process.
One is quickly caught scanning their shapes in search of the identifying markers of human features: welded
from found steel
objects, Melvin Edwards's contorted mask Iraq (2003) was made in response to the war's dramatic events; Nicholas Cheveldave created an uncanny medical cast of Kaspar, a robot with minimal facial expressions that helps children with autism; The Grantchester Pottery deconstructed the
fragile outline of muse Dora Maar's eyes, mouth, nose and tears in glazed stoneware gracefully suspended
from hemp cords.
The new works, whose mediums range
from materials as durable as iron or as
fragile as paper plates, represent ideas and
objects that have been intrinsic to Oldenburg's career.
Common
objects like rocks, newspapers, and furniture mutate
from something known, to something foreign,
fragile, newly composed, and entirely transformed.
The new works re-contextualize small - scale sculptures ranging in subject
from bowling pins to a paintbrush and a slice of pizza — created by the artist and Coosje van Bruggen in diverse materials, some as durable as iron and others as
fragile as paper plates, as well as found
objects from the artist's shelves.
The sparse,
fragile constellation of
objects lies underneath a thick rain of narrow brass rods suspended
from the ceiling.
The archive is brought together
from found, donated and created
objects each lending its weight towards preserving a
fragile memory of a particular event.
An artist continually writing his signature in a spiral for the life of an ink cartridge (Tom Friedman); a square section of drywall polished to a
fragile, mirror - like finish (Karin Sander); a film that records an image of the sun
from sunrise to sunset (Paul Pfeiffer); a rectangular Plexiglass volume with water inside it (Hans Haacke), are but a few examples of how modest means evolve into
objects which are complex ruminations on presence and absence, nature and culture, order and chaos.