Sentences with phrase «igloo sculpture»

On display is an inlaid mirrored igloo sculpture by Linda Pace, a San Antonio - based sculptor and philanthropist who died in 2007 but whose Artpace residency and exhibition program continues to nourish the local art community while maintaining an international presence.

The sale also features an igloo sculpture by Mario Merz which, like so many of the artist's works, is an exercise in fluid creativity — a structure that infuses the space around it with light, energy and a pervasive sense of the endless procreative flow of the cosmos.

Giap Igloo — If the Enemy Masses His Forces, He Looses Ground: If He Scatters, He Loses Strength (1968) represents a body of work that became an enduring motif throughout Merz's career, since he began making igloo sculptures in 1967.

Not exact matches

At nearby Asahikawa, dozens of dazzling ice sculptures shine with ghostly luminescence in the frigid air; farther south at Yokote, the locals construct 10,000 candlelit kamakura igloos throughout the town.

In college Rubins worked primarily with clay, creating igloo - like sculptures out of mud, concrete, and straw.

And it wasn't simply Italian or Roman art that these artists incorporated into their works — Merz was often a fan of appropriating igloos or other nomadic objects into his sculptures.

In his forthcoming essay on Mario Merz's Igloo (1971), Matt Jolly explicates the political vicissitudes of the Arte Povera artist's porous, hemispherical structure that hovers somewhere between sculpture and habitable architecture within the white cube, pointing toward more strident forms of institutional critique following the social upheaval of the late 1960s.