Sentences with phrase «of figurative sculpture»

That's another reason for my physical fascination with a certain type of figurative sculpture.

It is common to think of figurative sculpture as a pure representation of reality.

Here the found form of figurative sculpture was an online body scan of a woman.

Balkenhol, when shrinking the scale of his works, playfully disrupts the history of figurative sculpture by subverting the monumentality so often associated with it.

Maria discovered polymer clay in the mid 1990's and the creative possibilities of figurative sculptures.

Complementing the paintings is a group of figurative sculptures by Stephan Balkenhol, Huma Bhabha, Tom Friedman, Kendell Geers, Henry Moore and Yinka Shonibare, MBE.

Sullivan Goss is pleased to bring Allen Linder to the west coast for an exhibition of figurative sculpture carved in marble, cast in bronze and inlaid with various metals and mother of pearl.

They drew as much upon the traditions of figurative sculpture for this project, such as the group figurations of Auguste Rodin, Oskar Schlemmer and George Segal, as they did on popular music and its imagery.

British artist Thomas J Price is presenting recent works, including an ongoing series of figurative sculptures initiated in 2005.

Féminaire consists primarily of two bodies of work: a monumental installation of figurative sculptures positioned on a single plinth and a gridded wall arrangement of dozens of ceramic wall pieces.

Working with a wide variety of materials, he has returned to and transformed the genre of figurative sculpture at the beginning of the twenty - first century with works that explore the intersection between the human form, language, and technology.

Featuring a group of figurative sculptures from York Minster, most of them recently restored and never previously exhibited, Romanesque: Stone Sculpture from Medieval England gives viewers a rare chance to come face to face with our artistic heritage.

On the occasion of «The Great Mother» and Phaidon's new book Body of Art, Artspace's Karen Rosenberg spoke to Gioni about the enduring appeal of figurative sculpture, his influences from Catholic church statues to Mike Kelley, and why he thinks this art form is especially vital today.

This sculpture highlights Bhabha's long - term interest in revisiting the history of figurative sculpture through the time machine of contemporary cinematic science fiction and horror.

Domenique Lévy and Emmanuel Perrotin have collaborated on presenting a survey of figurative sculptures...

Marrinon received the Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship in 2001, which enabled her to attend the New York Academy of Art, where she was introduced to traditional techniques of figurative sculpture and gained a greater technical understanding of human anatomy.

But many artists are making a kind of figurative sculpture that feels new and transgressive, even though they're using forms and techniques associated with academic realism.

A remarkably prescient source revealed itself unexpectedly in 1965, during a trip across America: Jones happened upon a slot machine embedded within the form of a Vegas showgirl, a commercial variant of figurative sculpture which struck Jones for its sexual presence and intensely non-art condition.

These works, as with so much of Gormley's oeuvre, show the artist revitalizing the practice of figurative sculpture through his investigation of the body (often his own) as the locus of memory and transformation.

«With a kind of evident simplicity, Dewar & Gicquel practise an offshore style of figurative sculpture that may be more or less easy to identify, but whose relation to an external referent is beyond doubt.

Night at the Museum, curated by Ryan Gander, will explore the collection's holdings of figurative sculptures; and Drawing from Life: People on Paper, a drawings show that will feature surprising works from early careers such as a 1939 self - portrait by Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi's Drawings from Rembrandt, 1945.

what: an exhibition of figurative sculpture when: may 5 — june 30 where: deitch projects: 18 wooster street, new york

Taking its cue from the resurgence of figurative sculpture in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and from Sigmund Freud's essay «The Uncanny» (1919), the exhibition brings together mannequin - related art works, mostly from the 1960s onwards, with objects from disparate cultural contexts that engender a similar sense of unease in the viewer: medical dolls, anatomical waxworks, religious statues, pagan figurines, ventriloquists» dummies, sex dolls, taxidermy and so on.

An installation of figurative sculptures represents «jinns,» or demons.

Ron Mueck's skill lies in the creation of figurative sculptures that appear to be real, in a sense that they are made of flesh and blood, but moreover, have presence in a profoundly individual way.

Now, as then, The Uncanny brings together a wide range of figurative sculptures, mannequins, dummies and sex - dolls, animatronic puppets, body - casts and anatomical body fragments and models, religious statuary, stuffed animals, photographs, film stills and photographic archive material; as well as Kelley's own oddball collections of ephemera, which he calls his «harems», and which are now in the possession of another Los Angeles collector.

Smith is an innovator in the area of figurative sculpture, and the exhibition features work from each phase of her career to date.

By bringing elements of mechanics and undermining the permanence of figurative sculpture, the works lend themselves to a narrative and the theatrical.

Breaking away from the vertical or horizontal orientation of figurative sculpture Bhabha tilts her plinth and figure at a 45 - degree angle, and places a simple welded metal stand underneath.

New Zealand Born however east London based Francis creates an effective composite of figurative sculpture and techno - coloured fantasy.

An in - depth interview with Gormley explores the development of his new work, as well as his relationship to the artists who have inspired him and to his contemporaries in the field of figurative sculpture.

At a first gaze, the idea of reinterpretation of earlier movements within the genre of figurative sculpture seems to be the main thread of the exhibition; the «Human Statues» by Frank Benson re-visit the classic models of sculpture with a post-modern attitude, suggestions of an archaic past revive in Schütte's warriors, while a Minimalistic taste gives shape to Georg Herold's haggard creatures.

The Fran and Ray Stark Sculpture Terrace Adjacent to the Museum's West Pavilion, outside the entrance to the Center for Photographs, is the Stark Sculpture Terrace, with works that depict the broad outlines of figurative sculpture's move from representation to abstraction.

The final gallery has another excellent generational mix, this time of figurative sculpture by Rodin, Medardo Rosso, Bruce Nauman, Louise Bourgeois, Rebecca Warren and Alina Szapocznikow.

When invited by curator Valerie Smith to partake in the international sculpture show in Arnhem, Holland, Kelley seized the opportunity to put on display The Uncanny, a show of figurative sculpture he described as an «exhibition within an exhibition.»

Artist: Michael Ross Exhibition title: Selected Works 1991 — 2015 Venue: Ellis King, Dublin, Ireland Date: January 29 — March 5, 2016 Photography: images copyright and courtesy the artist and Ellis King, Dublin The story is often told of Alberto Giacometti's exile from occupied Paris in the early 1940's, as he whiled away the time in his native Switzerland working on a series of figurative sculptures of literally diminishing returns.

It demonstrates that today, following detours into abstract sculpture and object art, there is no sculptor who is as exceptional as Thomas Schütte in picking up the extensive European tradition of figurative sculpture, from the archaic right up to Rodin and Maillol.

Equally drawn to the history of figurative sculpture as to a wide range of craft and artisan traditions around the world — from ceramic techniques to glass blowing, enameling to welding — Upritchard pushes these practices in new directions, bringing them together to create a striking and original visual language of her own.

In an interview with Artspace deputy editor Karen Rosenberg, the New Museum's associate director and director of exhibitions discusses the appeal of figurative sculpture and the examples that have shaped his unique curatorial approach.

Considering the two types of figurative sculpture that cohabit in the exhibition space, we might ask ourselves «who is dreaming whom?»

«Abstraction / Figuration,» a dense, various and luminous exhibition of figurative sculptures and nearly 50 small works on paper, most from the past decade, reminds us just how fresh and exhilarating Abstract Expressionism, in the right hands, continues to be.

Unlike traditional forms of figurative sculpture, Muñoz's figures don't perform, instead they are immersed in their own worlds and conversations.

The Lisson show will also include a new series of figurative sculptures — essentially milled stainless - steel skeletons.

The stronger presence is Riepenhoff's installation of figurative sculptures.

In the 1960s, when the Abstract Expressionist and Pop Art movements were trans - forming artists» working methods, George Segal explored the long - established genre of figurative sculpture.

The artist draws freely upon the history of figurative sculpture, evoking Greek and Egyptian statuary, fertility icons, Rauschenberg's combines or the playfully sinister sculptural portraits of Marisol; indeed, the synthesis of science fiction, modernism and «pop» with the distant past underlies much of Bhabha's work as evidenced in her uncanny choice of materials.

Upritchard is equally drawn to the history of figurative sculpture and to a wide range of craft and artisan traditions around the world.

Drawing parallels to the themes of the exhibition, Gander employs the traditions of figurative sculpture to create a contemporary conceptual artwork.