Each cast
plaster figure presents the female body as literally «topless», in a range of poses from the coy to the confrontational.
Not exact matches
Fragile
plasters as well as patinated bronzes, marble
figures, astonishing ceramics and never - before - exhibited photographs all attest to this creative intensity, with much of the work
presented in North America for the first time.
Broodthaers» wall piece, Moule,
presents a dense group of empty mussel shells affixed to board, and Paolini's Intervallo (Torsi) divides the classical
plaster cast of a
figure which emerges from opposing walls.
In her 1998 show at Galerie Lelong in New York, she
presented her first series of nuns, in which
plaster figures bent their heads to the wall in prayer, while thick horsehair cascaded off their backs and across the gallery floor.
The series entitled Hanging & Weighting (2010)
presents bulbous
plaster sculptures that, although abstract, refer to organic forms or suggest a
figure.
For this exhibition at Modern Art, Altmejd is
presenting a dozen haut - reliefs in which casts of hands seem to be moving
plaster around to form
figures.