Sentences with phrase «monumental maman»
The human scale of this particular Spider creates a sense of preternatural unease, offering a more unsettlingly intimate encounter than larger spider sculptures such as the monumental Maman (1999), one version of which today towers ten metres tall outside the Guggenheim Bilbao.
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Nowhere is this more apparent than in Richard Serra's monumental The Matter of Time (1994 — 2005), one of a number of vast permanent installations including Jeff Koons» Puppy (1992) and Louise Bourgeois's Maman (1999).
The highlight of the exhibition is the monumental spider sculpture titled Maman that sits in front of the museum in the Berower Park.
This monumental work, along with her 30 - foot spider sculpture, Maman (1999), inaugurated the opening of Tate Modern, London.
The exhibition will complement and contextualise the installation of Bourgeois's monumental sculpture Maman (1999), which was unveiled last month at the Qatar National Convention Center in Doha.
The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will soon announce major purchases that fill gaps in its collection and fulfill its mission to include more women in the canon of American art: Jasper Johns's renowned «Flag» painting from 1983, which the museum bought at Sotheby's in November for $ 36 million (outlasting three other ardent bidders), and four works by Louise Bourgeois, including her monumental bronze, steel and marble spider sculpture «Maman.»
Famous examples of contemporary sculpture include: the large scale metal sculptures of Mark Di Suvero (b. 1933), the monumental public forms of Richard Serra (b. 1939), the hyper - realist figures of Duane Hanson (1925 - 96) and John De Andrea (b. 1941), the environmental structures of Antony Gormley (b. 1950), the fabulous realist figures of Rowan Gillespie (b. 1953), the innovative Neo-Pop works of Jeff Koons (b. 1955), and the surrealist Maman spider sculptures of Louise Bourgeois (1911 - 2010).
Maman — a monumental steel spider — was made for the opening of Tate Modern as part of this commission.