Think of Giovanni Anselmo placing a head of green lettuce between blocks of granite — continually refreshed when it wilted — or Mario Merz filling a long spiral table with fruits, vegetables and beeswax, a feast
of ephemeral sculpture.
A couple
of ephemeral sculptures made of wax by Swiss artist Urs Fischer, who currently lives and works in New York City.
Not exact matches
Madeleine Grynsztejn, the Elise S. Haas Senior Curator
of Painting and
Sculpture at SFMOMA, who is organizing the Tuttle retrospective there, reflects that Tuttle's courage in scale and willful choice
of ephemeral material influenced many younger artists, such as Tom Friedman, Jessica Stockholder, Polly Apfelbaum, Jim Hodges, Tony Feher, and Sarah Sze.
In a different vein, Katie Aliprando's enigmatic and
ephemeral mixed media work reinforces the distorted configuration
of Robert Lazzarini's Manhole
sculpture.
In contrast to the surrounding architecture, rAndom International's tower is an
ephemeral one: Tower is a temporary
sculpture that is given form just by countless drops
of water that can be experienced both from the inside and the outside.
The garments are stretched and worn to capture and extend the body
of flesh, resulting as an organic,
ephemeral sculpture that manifests its own space
of duration.
ARQUETOPIA, Publa, interior view EXAMPLES
OF TECHNIQUES WE OFFER (BUT NOT LIMITED TO THESE) Drawing • Painting • Natural pigments (cochineal, indigo, and other pigments) • Paper • Printmaking • Graphic design • Textiles • Mexican textiles (weaving, embroidery, back - strap weaving) •
Sculpture • Ceramics • Mexican ceramics (Talavera, loza vidriada) • Gold leafing and antique art techniques • Wood carving • Performance •
Ephemeral (including food and other perishable materials) • Photography: digital photography and alternative photographic processes • Digital media • Design and illustration RESIDENCY PROGRAMS WE OFFER (CLICK EACH FOR INFORMATION) 1.
The works, suspended plate - glass
sculptures internally etched with images
of clouds, share Isamu Noguchi's interest in sculpting
ephemeral materials, and in using them to shape space.
He sets traditional materials, inherited processes, and
ephemeral choreographies up against institutional structures and the historical narratives
of Western
sculpture, land art, and performance.
On view April 25 — August 19, 2018, the works — suspended plate - glass
sculptures internally etched with images
of clouds — evoke Isamu Noguchi's interest in sculpting
ephemeral materials, and in using them to shape space.
Inspired by a recent visit to Hong Kong, Turk created a Styrofoam box
sculpture especially for this exhibition, adding to his infamous trompe l'oeil
sculpture series in which he casts a substantial bronze
sculpture from a seemingly
ephemeral object and then paints it to further obfuscate the true materiality
of the piece.
The
sculptures, drawings, photographs, mixed media works, and films in Ana Mendieta: Late Works 1981 - 1985 at Galerie Lelong reveal Mendieta's translation
of her
ephemeral practices in the landscape to independent art objects.
Albuquerque is an internationally renowned artist who, over the course
of her 40 - year career, developed a strong visual language and an expansive body
of work ranging from
sculpture, poetry, painting, photography, film, and multi-media performance to ambitious site - specific
ephemeral projects in remote locations around the globe.
Examples include Pissed Off, 1981, for which the artist urinated on the notorious Richard Serra
sculpture, T.W.U., installed the same year; Bliz - aard Ball Sale (1983), for which the artist sold snowballs to passersby, in a mockery
of conspicuous consumption and the desire for ownership
of even
ephemeral objects; and How Ya Like Me Now?
Taken as a group, the
sculptures displayed in Is Is and Other Works demonstrate many
of the apparent contradictions surrounding his oeuvre: physical and spiritual, tactile and
ephemeral, minimal and baroque.
Her work blurs the conceived nature
of sculpture and dance in relation to the
ephemeral.
Through wall paintings, monochromes,
ephemeral sculpture and photography he reflects on the tendency
of contemporary art to devour references, simultaneously paying homage to figures such as Sol LeWitt, Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman and Lawrence Weiner, while demystifying the creative process.
Wurm reiterates that the success
of these
ephemeral pieces is determined by the exactness with which the directions are executed, stating, «The One Minute
Sculptures only come into existence if the public follows precisely the instructions
of the artist and free will has a low priority.»
An
ephemeral, mesmerizing play
of optics occurs as flowing particles
of haze are drawn out
of the shadows, illuminated by the light beam headed towards the screen, thus creating a 3 - dimensional
sculpture.
Clare Lilley, who selected and placed the works, said: «From the contemplative and
ephemeral to the robust and monumental, the exhibition includes the park's first - ever conceptual work — a remaking
of a rare 1969 piece by Ed Herring — and classic painted
sculptures by Claes Oldenburg and Jean Dubuffet alongside a newly created work by Eddie Martinez.
Through wall paintings, monochromes,
ephemeral sculpture and photography he pays homage to leading figures
of the art world such as Sol LeWitt, Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman and Lawrence Weiner, reflects on the tendency
of contemporary art to devour references and asks
of it «what next?»
Spatial perception and the emotive power
of light are harnessed within the
ephemeral installations and geometric
sculptures of Phillip K. Smith III.
Emerging from her use
of objects in her paintings and her inclusion
of found objects in her
ephemeral site - specific works, these new painting -
sculpture hybrids contrast monochromatic white and black areas with brightly - hued squiggles, splashes, stripes, and mazes and investigate what happens when a canvas and an object become a simultaneous and continuous surface for painting.
A member
of the African American avant - garde in Los Angeles and New York in the 1970s and 1980s, Nengudi began her career with innovative
sculptures and performances, staged within art spaces and beyond gallery walls, that expanded the definition
of sculpture, engaged with performance art's
ephemeral nature, and questioned women's delimited roles in contemporary culture.
Glacial Specimens (flame worked glass with clay and acrylic paint) consists
of several small mixed media glass
sculptures which capture the
ephemeral nature
of snow and ice crystals.
As an artist who uses natural materials to create both
ephemeral work in landscapes and permanent
sculptures, Goldsworthy explains his interest in change and the value
of returning to the same place to get deeper and deeper into it.
Visual play is generated by overlapping layers
of drawings,
ephemeral sculptures made
of paper and cardboard, light wire objects, all constructed by Nobre in - situ.
His most recent project for the Coachella Music Festival, Etherea, Tresoldi's biggest artwork to date and the largest to be featured in the festival, is an
ephemeral public artwork comprising three aligned
sculptures inspired by Neoclassical and Baroque architecture
of identical shape but diminishing size, that invite visitors to re-calibrate reality as they progress through it.
Baumgarten's body
of work has included
ephemeral sculptures, photographic work, slide projection pieces, 16 mm film works, recordings, drawings, prints, books, short stories, as well as site - specific works and wall drawings and architecture related interventions.
«It is exciting to see how a performance — usually defined by its
ephemeral nature — generates a massive, solid bronze suite
of sculptures,» says LACMA's Associate Curator
of Special Initiatives José Luis Blondet in a press release.
Joining permanent and
ephemeral elements, the
sculpture consists
of a shallow rectangular marble dish onto which milk is poured daily as a ritual event — just enough to cover the dish and make the marble really shimmer.
The
sculptures of César Baldaccini, better known simply as César, often combine allusions to the classical past with playful nods to the
ephemeral values
of the consumerist present.
Last month, Schremko traveled to Harbin, China, to serve as a judge at the International Ice and Snow
Sculpture Festival, where several previous years as a competitor gave her a true appreciation for the challenges
of this most
ephemeral medium.
David's process
of conceiving an image is rooted in the line and he retains the impulsive and
ephemeral nature
of drawing as he transitions from sketches on paper to painting,
sculpture, and other media often reverting to drawing — in ways that he refers to as «following instructions in order to formalize the feeling
of bodily presence and absence, assembling and dissolving in equal measures.»
The large - scale exhibition itself has become the actual focal point, an
ephemeral meta - artwork in which paintings,
sculptures, videos, and drawings are demoted to the position
of building blocks or raw material.
Not only were their costumes «body
sculptures», but their live art drew upon the interplay between ideas
of permanence and the
ephemeral, between the body alive and in motion, frozen and stylized.
Tasha Lewis is an artist originally from Indianapolis, Indiana, whose sculptural and installation works combine the historic photographic process
of cyanotype with paper
sculpture, stitching, magnets, and
ephemeral public art.
Hayden Dunham traffics in the
ephemeral, with colorful
sculptures that appear to melt and ooze or release clouds
of steam.
«There are a few artists who are making live action that is based in
sculpture, but what sets him apart is his purist insistence on the immateriality — or
ephemeral materiality —
of the work, so it crystallizes and disperses again, so there is no trace left at all.»
In the gallery, a photograph
of this
ephemeral work will be exhibited along with a bright pink cast - resin
sculpture that «breathes» (has an audio soundtrack) and «smells» (has a scent that the artist developed in Paris).
Over 100 women from 15 countries are included, from well - known artists like Lygia Clark, Ana Mendieta, and Judy Baca, to scores
of underrepresented pioneers, working across a wide spectrum
of media from painting and
sculpture, to photography, video, installation, and
ephemeral actions.
A powerful grouping
of sculptures by Rodin (1906 — 07), Medardo Rosso (ca. 1906), Bourgeois (1996), Bruce Nauman (1996), and Alina Szapocznikow (1971), for instance, demonstrates shared concerns with capturing, paradoxically, an
ephemeral state set in stone.
Ephemeral installations, earthworks and permanent site - specific works were in vogue, and soon the very phrase «public
sculpture» had been replaced by public art, an amorphous new category in which art could be almost anything: LED signs, billboards, slide or video projections, guerrilla actions, suites
of waterfalls.
Sullivan uses drawing and
sculpture, in addition to producing various
ephemeral conceptual projects, to explore his interest in reinterpreting familiar forms in order to open up new areas
of inquiry.
The physicality and stillness
of paintings, photographs, and
sculptures bear witness indefinitely; such works have a quality
of permanence, an insistence and rudeness that makes them more intrusive than
ephemeral experiences.
On Wednesday, Participant Inc. will open the set
of these performances as a site - specific installation, transforming the remnants
of the performances, including film equipment and a mass - produced IKEA folding chair, into
ephemeral sculptures.
For this project the artist constructed a series
of paper
sculptures which were temporarily balanced and then photographed before collapsing, capturing an
ephemeral moment and fixing it in time.
Contrasting the
ephemeral visual quality
of the paintings, Riegelman's solid wood
sculptures resonate light from their platinum surfaces.
Inspired by the teachings
of the ancient Taoist philosopher Laozi, by the modern artist Brancusi, and the legacy
of formative life experiences with his family in Germany and India, Laib creates
sculptures that seem to connect that past and present, the
ephemeral and the eternal.
However, whereas Smithson's
sculpture was made out
of basalt rock and salt crystals on a monumental scale and was intended to become a permanent feature
of the Great Salt Lake landscape in which it was made, Long's spiral made out
of seaweed was more modest in scale and
ephemeral in nature.