The Iron Root by Ai Weiwei, is a cast
iron sculpture of a tree root sprayed in purple car paint, closely connected to the trees currently on display at the Royal Academy of Arts in London for Ai's retrospective and celebration of the artist becoming a Royal Academician; juxtaposed with the carbon monochrome reflections from the concave sculpture Untitled (Storm Grey) 2015 by Kapoor.
Gormley's most famous works include Event Horizon (a project consisting of 31 life - size male bodies installed separately in Rio, Sao Paulo, NYC, and London), Another Place (100 cast
iron sculptures of the artist's own body installed at Crosby Beach), and the monumental installation Angel of the North near Gateshead.
It is commonly believed that artist Julio González coined the term «drawing in space» in 1932, when he wrote about Pablo Picasso's
iron sculptures of 1928, which Picasso had adapted from some of his earlier line drawings.
Not exact matches
Known as the «
iron man,» a 24 - centimeter - high
sculpture was likely created from a piece
of the Chinga meteorite that was strewn across the border region between Russia and Mongolia between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago
Iron oxidizing within the rock creates the surreal orange and red hues
of these natural
sculptures.
Working in teams, Sklar's
sculpture students make rough sketches
of would - be monuments that honor a range
of North Star State treasures: natural resources, the
iron - ore range, the shipping and flower industries.
Her glass figures combine life - size blown - glass
sculptures with cast
iron and steel, merging the fluidity
of glass with the strength
of metal.
The sale will include 200 original paintings as well as a wide assortment
of unique and affordable gifts, including silk scarves, jewelry, and
iron sculpture.
Grounding the works culturally and geographically, the paintings and
sculpture in the show are composed
of materials — rocks and minerals,
iron rich soil, roots, and branches — sourced from various locales in East Africa.
In addition to the drawings, one
of Beuys» most iconic
sculptures, Backrest
of a fine - limbed person (hare - type)
of the 20th Century AD (1972 - 1982), an
iron form that resembles a human torso, is on display.
In this video, Sakshi Gupta talks about her work Strange Beginnings I, a
sculpture made
of cast cement,
iron sheet and bird feathers.
John Chamberlain's galvanized
iron sculpture imposed itself dramatically at the entrance while Dan Flavin's bold red florescent
sculpture defined the corner
of the back room and cast a glow over the entire space.
As an example, he has made a series
of sculptures inspired by the wrought
iron fence from a childhood balcony intermixed with elements
of porcelain that liken them to a traditional pattern one might find in a china cabinet
of an older neighbor or relative, in this case, white ground with a traditional cobalt blue.
Debris and recycled remains become the structure
of his
sculptures, where beams and planks
of wood found in the street or on building sites, assembled with concrete,
iron or steel, become the protagonists
of his projects, infused with energy and tension that suggest deep meanings.
Gravitas was well rewarded, however; a wall
of Louise Bourgeois gouaches at Hauser & Wirth, an Antony Gormley cast -
iron Prop lV at Sean Kelly, a gleaming stainless steel Saint Clair Cemin at Paul Kasmin, and Lygia Clark's interlocking
sculptures — all sold the first day.
Celebrating the 50th anniversary
of The Landmark Trust, the exhibition LAND, which first opened in May 2015, comprises distinct life - size standing
sculptures cast in
iron at five Landmark Trust sites.
Ordovas will present the first dedicated exhibition in London
of Chillida's
sculpture for almost twenty years; Chillida: From
Iron to Light has been organised in collaboration with artist's estate and will go on public display from 5 June until 27 July 2013.
Foregrounding a new development in the artist's practice, which moves beyond notions
of verisimilitude, the exhibition presents the Rooter series
of iron sculptures, all made in the past two years, which apply plant - like branching systems to map a human body in space.
In June eleven
sculptures were installed throughout the public spaces
of Bordeaux, France for the exhibition Jaume Plensa in Bordeaux and two cast
iron heads, Marianna W and Chloe, were show in the UK.
His use
of classical figurative techniques with a honed attention to aesthetics
of form and surface — such as in the velvety finished concrete or waxed
iron patina surfaces
of his
sculptures — reflect an embrace
of the making
of objects that seems refreshingly out
of step with the digital era.
More stitching is evident in the clothing incorporated into her
sculptures, from the tufted embroidery in a wedding dress to stacks
of ironed cotton shirts.
Celebrated for his full - scale installations and wall - mounted
sculptures, Drew uses a variety
of materials such as wood,
iron, cotton, paper and mud to re-work in the building
of new and lively forms.
The historically important site located in the 1st arrondissement will serve as an architectural setting for the group
of sculptures by Valdés: female heads in aluminum,
iron or marble, their unique ornamentations on unforgettable display.
Although trained as a painter at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, New York — based artist Lionel Maunz works primarily in
iron, steel, and concrete
sculpture, employing casting as an integral part
of his methodology, as well as delicate drawings in graphite on paper.
Although trained as a painter at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, the artist works primarily in
iron, steel, and concrete
sculpture, employing casting as an integral part
of his methodology, as well as delicate drawings in graphite on paper.
In his workshop, learn to build
sculptures as big as your house with materials you can find in your closet, as Stayrook teaches a technique to bind plastic sheets (garbage bags) together with the use
of wax paper and an
iron.
In the first years
of his career, he made «poor»
sculptures, using industrial mterials like Eternit,
iron, wood and enamel paint.
Weissmann's «Untitled»
sculpture of red painted
iron also relates to Sol LeWitt's open cube structures, highlighting conceptual links between these continents.
Previous iterations
of the
sculptures were made in solid Jesmonite or cast
iron.
Concerned with movement, balance, flow, tension these
sculptures and their harnesses
of iron play with tactility and texture: softness
of clay, the cold
of metal and the warmth
of ceramics.
Joyce, a 2003 winner
of a MacArthur «genius» grant and a longtime Santa Fe resident, forges powerful, often experimental
sculptures that explore his decades - long fascination with
iron.
Lehmann Maupin Gallery have the honour
of presenting a solo show by English artist Tracey Emin, entitled I Fell in Love, the show will debut the artists bronze
sculpture The Heart Has Its Reasons while the Sean Kelly Gallery will feature works from esteemed British sculptor Antony Gormley, famed for his giant Angel
of the North
sculpture located in Gateshead, UK and his Another Place work that saw the sculptor place 100 cast
iron figures facing out to sea on Crosby Beach near Liverpool in the UK.
Deploying emotive and uncannily realistic materials — wax, wood,
iron, wool, hair and the hides
of horses — her figurative
sculptures are life - like yet unnaturally distorted.
With the
sculptures of this project, Barney has moved away from his signature materials — thermal plastic and petroleum jelly — towards metals, materials, which, on the one hand, are more typical
of traditional
sculpture and, on the other hand,
of industrial processes:
iron, bronze, lead, copper, brass, zinc, silver, as well as the continued employment
of organic elements such as sulphur and salt.
These kinetic
sculptures in the shape
of flowers have steam
irons for petals which open and close to mimic the movement
of real flowers.
The fourteen - piece retrospective — ranging from 1988's Shallow Breath to two substantial
sculptures realized this year, including a cast -
iron floor piece — emphasizes the formal, «minimalist» containment
of Whiteread's casts rather than their petrified histories and content.
Each
of those three will show different examples
of Mr. Ai's recent
sculpture, which include symbols
of uprootedness and displacement, such as cast -
iron tree trunks.
However, the turning point in Uncini's artistic development came with the creation, in 1957 and 1958,
of his first Cementiarmati [Reinforced concrete],
sculptures created using
iron, cement and wire netting.
The works
of Christoforos Savva (1924 — 1968) Cube (Abstract
sculpture)(1962/65), Nikos Kouroussis (b. 1937) Untitled (1970), Angelos Makrides (b. 1942) The Great Greek Encyclopaedia (1972), Aristidis Anastasiadis (1940 - 2014) Positive Space (1992), and Mary Plant (b. 1943) Anthograms (2004 - 2005) are studies
of personal and interpersonal topographies embracing diverse materials and ranging from wood,
iron, and paper to stone and gypsum.
In the final part
of the studio visit Patrick Meagher and Theodore Bouloukos have a look at current projects: The branding
irons of Etymology (Burn Branded Cowhide), presented at The Armory Show 2007 at Socrates
Sculpture Park; Barriers to Entry (obstacles); and Springs Eternal, 2006.
Entering the gallery the viewer is almost walking into Map
of China, a large
sculpture made out
of Iron wood (Tieli wood) that Ai Weiwei has collected from dismantled temples
of the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911).
Performative, Poetic, Powerful Examining the various aesthetic and conceptual turns that typify César's practice, the show at Luxembourg & Dayan will present historically significant examples from his Compression, Human Imprint, and Expansion series, as well as such early figurative works as the Venus - like welded
iron sculpture Torso (1954), on loan from the permanent collection
of The Museum
of Modern Art.
A monumental cast
iron sculpture by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa has been purchased by the Toledo Museum
of Art.
She wanted to make an
iron replica
of the Statue
of Liberty, lay it in public in New York's Battery Park, and let visitors enter the
sculpture and walk around.
Then I bought two plates
of aluminium
iron and made
sculptures.
Through the development
of welding, Smith's
sculpture of 1933 could incorporate used and discarded
iron machine and tool parts, extending the use
of found materials developed by the Cubists and Surrealists.
Thereafter her work continued to encompass a range
of materials typically associated with modernist
sculpture, such as
iron, steel, lead, glass, and wire mesh.
The art gallery also possesses a fine collection
of socialist realism
sculptures such as Yevgeny Vuchetichs Iconic statue
of Iron Felix.
The
sculptures in this exhibition recall in size some
of the early domestically - scaled Accumulations, for which Kusama covered such things as
ironing boards and travel valises in the stuffed - fabric protuberances, yet the works on view here are painted in the style that has come to characterize Kusama's most recent paintings.
In the early 1970s, when
sculpture was ruled by modernist monuments and Minimalist hulks, Joel Shapiro caused a sensation when he placed three - inch - high bronze or cast -
iron domestic objects — a chair, a dollhouse, a coffin, a bird — on the floor
of Paula Cooper's SoHo gallery.