Sentences with phrase «iron sculptures of»

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.

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.

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.

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.