Harry Bertoia, Italian - born American sculptor, printmaker, and jewelry and furniture designer best known for
his monumental architectural sculptures and classic Bertoia Diamond chair.
These imagined ruins, restored memory and archaeological (re) creation are made of various materials, from bas - reliefs, to
monumental architectural sculptures evoking the doors and structures of the subterranean, here constructed in polystyrene, polished aluminium, plaster and cement.
Not exact matches
Palenque's
monumental stone temples are famed for their
architectural sophistication and fine
sculptures, and are made even more interesting by the detailed knowledge of its history that archaeologists have recovered from its inscriptions.
Ranging from text to installation, painting,
sculpture, performance and sound, the selection presents some of Lisson's leading artists, of both the past and present — beginning with
monumental works such as one of Dan Graham's large - scale glass - and - steel pavilions, entitled Two Vs Entrance - Way (2016), which reflects and refracts visitors and its Brutalist
architectural surroundings.
6th Moscow Biennale, Amei Wallach,
architectural, architecture, biology, body, cell, disintegration, drawing, exhibition, found objects, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Haus der Kunst, Irina Nakhova, isolation, Jerry Gorovoy, Julienne Lorz, Kate Fowle, Louise Bourgeois, memory, microcosm,
monumental, Olesya Turkina, organism, painting, prison, Rosizo State Museum,
sculpture, structure, survey, The Easton Foundation
The artist photographs the
sculpture's individual components and prints them in large - scale format; this shift in scale and medium recasts intimate objects as
monumental,
architectural portraits.
In Paul Morrison's first solo exhibition in London since 2008, for which he has executed a major
architectural intervention on the façade of the gallery and installed a
monumental white
sculpture within the main space, the artist extends his enquiry into the nature of representation, and the representation of nature.
Through photography, printmaking,
sculpture and installation from the miniature to the
monumental, this exhibition engages the social landscape, explores the real and mimetic and deconstructs
architectural forms, histories and legacies.
Borrowing its title from Anni Albers's 1957 essay The Pliable Plane Antunes occupied the
monumental exhibition space with a series of large scale works, two
sculptures inspired by Anni Albers's fabric designs, others informed with Lina Bo Bardi's
architectural work.
The tiny
sculptures suggest
monumental tomb architecture in form, seen perhaps most clearly in Yackulic's
architectural drawings, companion pieces to the Variations.
The works themselves index
architectural barriers between outside and inside — a
monumental new series of aluminum - cast windows, a large - scale brick - wall painting and a new series of concrete
sculptures cast from the corners of urban buildings — collectively comprising the space of an inner world.
The first internationally touring survey show dedicated to the work of one of Japan's leading and most innovative contemporary artists, this exhibition will present works from Ohtake's multifaceted practice which ranges from painting to assemblage, collage, drawing,
monumental sculpture,
architectural environment and sound — much of which has never been seen in the US.
These works are joined by five new
monumental sculptures of the body (as interpreted through interlocking steel beams) and two new Blockworks that translate the body into a network of rectangles to construct seemingly
architectural realms.
The foundation is located in Paris and in Périgny - sur - Yerres, where the Closerie Falbala, a
monumental sculpture and the artist's major work (designated a historic monument in 1998), is situated near the former
sculpture studios that house the artist's
architectural models.
His oeuvre includes paintings, prints,
sculptures, environments,
architectural integrations, public interventions and
monumental public installations.
Known for his
monumental,
architectural - scale
sculptures, which incorporate salvaged steel and steel I - beams, often brightly painted and ranging from 20 to 60 feet tall (6 to 18 meters), di Suvero's
sculptures can be seen in over 100 museum collections, public parks, university campuses, and urban plazas throughout the United States, Europe, and Australia.
Using industrial materials such as plaster, concrete, resin, rubber and metal to cast the surfaces and volume of everyday objects and
architectural space, she creates evocative
sculptures that range from the intimate to the
monumental.
In other works, however, the themes feel like an abstract frame forced upon individual positions, for instance, in Monika Sosnowska's Façade (2013), a hanging steel
sculpture of a crumpled
architectural grid, or Oscar Murillo's unnecessary
monumental installation Condiciones aún por titular (Conditions yet not known), 2014 — 17, taking over the courtyard of Bait Al Serkal with excavations, sawn canvases, paintings and steel structures inspired by morgue tables, picturing the process of a personal archaeology.