Inspired by the radical politics of the late 1960's and frustrated by the limitations of art taught by the academics, he decided to embrace different,
modern sculptural practices.
Not exact matches
The addition of bronze to de Jong's
sculptural language represents an engagement with mortality, monumentality and world history that is more nuanced and less visceral than the use of
modern synthetic compounds that defined the first 15 years of the artist's
practice.
In his pursuit of a new language, the artist helped to move
sculptural practice from the «
modern'to the «contemporary.»
He is co-editor of the Sculpture Journal and co-edited publications include:
Modern Sculpture Reader (2007/2012), H.S. Ede's Savage Messiah (2011), Tools of Trades: Articulating
Sculptural Practice (2010), Articulate Objects: Voice, Sculpture, and Performance (2009), Carl Plackman: Sculpture, Drawing, Writing (2006) and Sculpture in Twentieth - Century Britain (2003).
Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective traces the development of Price's
sculptural practice from his luminously glazed ovoid forms to his suggestive, molten - like slumps, positioning him within the larger narrative of
modern American sculpture.
Works on view explore several key ideas in
modern and contemporary
sculptural practice, such as the exploration of unorthodox materials, new choices in subject matter, and the dissolution of the boundary between painting and sculpture.