The show at MOCA gives a detailed overview of aesthetic shifts happening during Andre's career, including the most
important floor sculptures and modular arrangements made of brick stacks, slabs, and timber blocks.
Not exact matches
Other
important pieces from this era, including the sagging soft
sculptures Floor Burger (1962) and Soft Bathtub (1966), gave instantly recognizable items new textures and shapes.
«Now with Texas
Sculpture, we are pleased to showcase in one of our first -
floor galleries these nine excellent
sculptures from our collections by some of the state's most
important artists.»
Visitors see the first -
floor sculpture studio, renovated in 1963 by the artist; temporary exhibition on the 2nd
floor; and on the 3rd
floor, the living and dining space featuring over 200 works from Gross's extensive global art collection, including
important American paintings by Marsden Hartley, Willem De Kooning, Milton Avery, Jacob Lawrence and many others, installed by the artist and preserved as he had it during his lifetime.
As I absorbed the monumental color field paintings and scrutinized the circular bands of steel
sculpture on the
floor — representing two
important aspects of his work in the seventies — I recalled that Olitski was the first living artist to be given an exhibition in 1969 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by the curator Henry Geldzahler.
JOSEPH BEUYS: BACKREST FOR A FINE - LIMBED PERSON OF THE 20TH CENTURY AD, 1972 - 1982, AND EARLY DRAWINGS: Located in the Chapel Gallery on the first
floor of Ely House, this exhibition brings together a series of early drawings alongside an
important sculpture by German artist Joseph Beuys, highlighting Thaddaeus Ropac's long - standing relationship to the artist's oeuvre.
Another
important figure in the movement was Carl Andre, who shared a studio space with Stella and whose
sculpture was exhibited for the first time in 1964, known for his use of materials such as bricks and metal plates arranged in simple geometric compositions positioned on the
floor.
A selection of nearly 100 works, including paintings,
sculptures and drawings, will occupy the second
floor and one gallery on the first
floor, with particular emphasis on the most
important thematic series created by the artist over the course of his career.
Patching and piecing remains an
important element for the show with the exhibition of new quilt - like pieces on canvas,
floor sculptures, suspended articles, as well as larger installation work.
The upper
floors, first and second, are dedicated to the preparatory drawings, cut - outs,
sculptures, tapestries and collages made for what promises to be one of the most
important artistic events of 2016: «Triumphs and Laments», a project inspired by the history of Rome, which will be launched on April 21st on the embankments of the Tiber River walls that stretches between Ponte Sisto and Ponte Mazzini.