Sentences with phrase «pieces of his public sculpture»

Extraordinary pieces of public sculpture, luminous with reflected light, they distort ideas of space and play with the line between art and architecture, exerting a curious, totemic power over their often - genteel settings.

Just to follow up on that comment (thank you both), the «Angel of the South» to which this writer refers is a competition to create a huge piece of public sculpture near the entrance to the Channel Tunnel in Ebbsfleet.

This Spring he installed Slipstream at Heathrow Airport — the largest piece of public sculpture in Europe.

Anish Kapoor has designed Britain's largest piece of public sculpture, a 120 metre tall interwoven tower that people will be able to...

He has created several pieces of public sculpture, including Continuum at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and Silent Cry at Florida International University.

This Spring he installed a new sculpture at Heathrow Airport — the largest piece of public sculpture in Europe.

Several pieces of his public sculpture have attracted controversy, although his reputation as one of the most innovative abstract sculptors remains intact.

Not exact matches

Mach, a former Turner Prize nominee, has long used unusual but everyday materials in his work: previous projects have included matchstick sculptures (which were later set alight), pieces made of coat hangers, and a 1989 public artwork in Kingston called Out of Order, formed of 12 red phone boxes tipped onto their sides.

He has been subject to numerous solo and group exhibitions in galleries across the country as well as abroad lending to most of his works becoming key pieces in many prominent private and public collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA and the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC.

Combine the piece's insensitive siting with the oddly quiet way in which the Menil acquired the work — without the fanfare that accompanied such accessions as its Maurizio Cattelan sculpture or the marketing blitz that led up to the «wedding» — as well as Kamps's professed surprise at a controversy he had cited in the No Zoning catalogue, then top all that off with the Menil's refusal to present a public discussion of an artwork whose meaning was supposed to be shaped «by the ensuing debate,» and you're looking at a colossal screw - up by a rightly revered institution.

She remains unsure of how to position the piece so that the public know it is intended to be eaten, but is excited by the idea of installing her work at a place where people are not previously aware of the nature of her sculptures.

Quinn subsequently enlarged this work to make it a major piece of public art for the fourth plinth of Trafalgar Square, and the work was also featured as the center sculpture of the 2012 London Paralympics.

Sarah Roberts, Andrew W. Mellon Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture, says, «I think it was a turning point for him to let it go into a public collection, and opening that door allowed him to start thinking about placing other important pieces that he had held onto.»

I wanted to do a piece of serious sculpture in the public.

Our Art category features a variety of different pieces ranging from drawing and painting to sculptures and large installations in both private and public spaces.

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.»

Over the fivemonth exhibition period, General Rehearsal will offer the public curated selections of painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, mixed - media, film, video and performance, including rare, iconic and major works of art alongside pieces from lesser - known, emerging talents from all over the world; new commissions and specially written scripts to narrate the presentations.

Wu Hung's Survey offers a deep insight into the historical context in which Yin's work developed, from painting to her public actions in the streets of Beijing and the second - hand clothes sculptures that would eventually become her signature pieces.

They claim the artwork has mystical powers, which is probably one of the most unique public receptions to a piece of contemporary sculpture.

The WSU campus is home to the Ulrich Museum's renowned 76 - piece Martin H. Bush Outdoor Sculpture Collection, rated one of the top collections of its kind by Public Art Review.

AMc: Do you think events such as Susan Philipsz winning the Turner Prize for a purely audio work in 2010 and Bruce Nauman's filling the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern with a series of sound sculptures in 2004 have helped the public accept sound art and audio pieces as art?

Now in its sixth year, Sculpture in the City, the City of London's annual public art programme, launches tomorrow with the first ever screening of Petroc Sesti's digital piece Solar Relay — one of 17 works of art in the open - air sculpture take - over of the Square Mile, Sculpture in Sculpture in the City, the City of London's annual public art programme, launches tomorrow with the first ever screening of Petroc Sesti's digital piece Solar Relay — one of 17 works of art in the open - air sculpture take - over of the Square Mile, Sculpture in sculpture take - over of the Square Mile, Sculpture in Sculpture in the City.

«The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today,» at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, through November 1, moma.org This stunner, organized by MoMA photography curator Roxana Marcoci, may be the surprise star of the summer, assembling dozens of works that document other pieces, from Lee Friedlander's snapshots of public monuments to Robert Mapplethorpe's iconic portrait of the late Louise Bourgeois with a large sculptural phallus tucked under her arm.

Another new acquisition, Robert Indiana's LOVE sculpture, will provide a Cor - Ten steel version of the iconic piece to the Minneapolis public.

Recent solo exhibitions have included: Seven Easy Pieces, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Star, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan; Marina Abramovic: The Hero, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Marking the Territory, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; The Hunt, Center for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Japan; Spirit Houses, Bourganeuf, France; Marina Abramovic, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy, and Public Body — Artist Body, The Kunstverein Hannover, Germany.

It's a diverse lot that includes the Alturas Foundation, which funded «Makin» Hay,» the public art installation of monumental sculpture by Tim Otterness at Hardberger Park; the Harmon and Harriet Kelley Foundation for the Arts, known for one of the best collections of African American art in the country; and Claudia Huntington and Marshall Miller, who loaned SAMA large scale figurative sculpture for the show, including the piece by Chia and Polish artist Igor Mitoraj's «Sonno Screpolato (Cracked Sleep),» a bronze of a fragmented face.

In DC, I made paintings that referenced public sculpture, primarily the Modernist pieces in the National Gallery of Art sculpture garden.

Those plans include helping sculptor Jedediah Caesar — known for entombing trash from his studio in gigantic lumps of resin — to create a large abstract sculpture in a yet - to - be-named public place, and helping photographic artist Walead Beshty create a sculptural piece with audio elements inside a local mall.

Smith has completed several collaborative public art works such as the floor design in the Great Hall of the new Denver Airport; an in - situ sculpture piece in Yerba Buena Park, San Francisco and a mile - long sidewalk history trail in West Seattle and recently, a new terrazzo floor design at the Denver Airport.

The piece, which sold early in the weekend, is a fascinating departure from the hyperrealistic sculptures of human figures and plants for which Matelli is best known, as seen in such prominent recent public installations as the High Line.

Known for his one - minute public sculptures, Wurm has since transitioned to larger, more involved works, this time crafting the pieces himself instead of in a studio with multiple disciples.

A number of the pieces come from international public and private collections such as the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington and The Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego.

In the 1950s, Lozano did a number of public works, including several pieces of sculpture for churches in Havana.

Zheng Jiashi, former deputy director of Shanghai Urban Sculpture Center, told the China Daily that Shanghai has never previously been embroiled in a plagiarism dispute over a piece of public art.

The works selected for Public address this aspect of sculpture as the pieces claim space or territory through size, scale, intensity and sound, among other artistic practices.

In October, 30 Berkeley Square's new exhibition gallery, which is bigger than the equivalent space at either Sotheby's or Christie's in London, will be hosting «A Very Short History of Contemporary Sculpture,» a show conceived by the curator Francesco Bonami that will mix loaned works with pieces that Phillips is offering either privately or for public sale.

This piece, made from red - dyed painter's canvas and wittily suspended on a wire hanger by two actual clothespins, is a charming version of his series treating the common household object — which for Oldenburg has both anthropomorphic qualities and an affinity to Brancusi's pillars — that found its grandest expression in a giant public - art sculpture across from Philadelphia's City Hall.

Whiteread is one of the few artists of her generation to have produced important public sculptures, some of which have achieved a monumental status and significance.Ghost, her breakthrough piece from 1990, is a plaster cast of a living room, modelled on a typical Victorian terraced house in north London, similar to the one in which the artist grew up.

This piece places one of Sahib's columnar Watch Queen sculptures — so named in reference to the gay slang term for fetishistic voyeurs — in the middle of a public park, evoking the same kind of nighttime escapades chronicled by the Japanese photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki.

The details of Thek can be painstakingly, excruciatingly precise such as the architecturally rendered studies of sculptures while he simultaneously excelled at what I call good bad art; in fact, Thek purposely referenced awful pieces to feed the public what they seemed to want by embracing the worst of the likes of Julian Schnabel, Enzo Cucchi, Sandro Chia and Franceso Clemente who were the rage in New York of the 1980s.

On this particular day Nevine Mahmoud's Three Isolated Effects exhibition, running from April 18 to 24, is showing in a 10 × 10 space in a Public Storage facility in Los Angeles» Elysian Park neighborhood and is made up of three sculpture pieces by London - born and LA - based Mahmoud.

Starting at The Oratory, which hosts works by several Biennial artists as part of the Ancient Greece episode, the tour will continue onto Derby Square for Lawrence Abu Hamdan's new public time piece, Sahej Rahal's «fossilised» sculpture at Exchange Flags, and Betty Woodman's large - scale fountain at George's Dock Ventilation Tower plaza.

Her early minimal sculptures and drawings of the 70s through to the gestural paintings and installations of powdered spices from the 80s, and video works of the 90s; it was only in the last ten years of her life that she found considerable success in public commissions, notably the 60,000 - piece glass mosaic on the south facade of Royal Albert Hall in London.

Smith continues his artist - of - all - trades approach, incorporating drawings, paintings and sculpture along with his epic performance piece, only this time he is enlisting the public to join in.

The piece is part of Whitney Biennial in Central Park, a five - artist outdoor sculpture show organized by the Public Art Fund.

Arad has designed a number of Public Art pieces, including the Vortext in Seoul, Korea, the Kesher Sculpture at Tel Aviv University, Evergreen in Tokyo, and Curtain Call for Roundhouse, London.

There are also around 300 pieces of art that is located in the public arts collection for everyone to enjoy, with many of the pieces located at the Benson Sculpture Garden.1

Built in the 1940s and opened to the public in 2007 following the death of David Whitney, Johnson's partner of many years, the Glass House is but one piece of architectural art standing on the 47 - acre estate, which also includes art galleries, outdoor sculptures, buildings that look like sculptures and more (philipjohnsonglasshouse.org).