Sentences with word «plinth»
A "plinth" is a flat structure or base that is usually made of stone or wood. It is used to support or display something, like a statue, monument, or even furniture. The plinth provides stability and adds importance to whatever is placed on it. Full definition
His work attracted a wide audience once more when Ecce Homo occupied the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in 1999.
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In 1998, he was awarded a Henry Moore Fellowship at the British School in Rome and in 1999, he was asked to fill the empty fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, and provided Ecce Homo to huge public acclaim.
And, throughout the preview days of the Venice Biennale at 12 p.m. and 3 p.m., she will also activate an exterior stretch of the Arsenale with a new performance, Raise the Roof, which features headphone - clad young women dancing on plinths of varying heights to songs whose lyrics are emblazoned on their black t - shirts.
I don't think I've ever witnessed the unveiling of a Trafalgar Square fourth plinth commission in such propitious meteorological circumstances.
consisting of plinths resting on lounging display structures that the artist says are designed for them to «relax», those obsolete pedestals have no artwork or body to support anymore.
His design for a new fourth plinth for Trafalgar Square is on display at the National Gallery, London (020-7747 2885).
Gorgeous statues are displayed on DIY plinths with pastel pink frames.
In fact, some of her best - known pieces include «House,» a large concrete cast of the inside of an entire Victorian house; the holocaust memorial sculpture in Judenplatz Vienna; and a resin sculpture for the empty plinth in London's Trafalgar Square.
Playing with materials ranging from plinth, pedestal and corrugated cardboard to plastic ketchup bottles, insulated travel mugs and Barbie's wheelchair - bound friend, Harrison creates colorful, canny, thought - provoking constructions that are worthy peers of Rauschenberg's Combines.
Other critically acclaimed works include Alison Lapper Pregnant (2005), a fifteen - ton marble statue of the heavily pregnant and disabled Alison Lapper, exhibited on the fourth plinth at London's Trafalgar Square.
Yinka Shonibare's scale model of Nelson's flag ship Victory, sails printed with African textile designs and flying flag signals from the Battle of Trafalgar including «engage the enemy closely», has proved one of the most popular of the fourth plinth sculpture commissions.
The group exhibition is integrated into the solo exhibition with works appearing both independently and on Assists, a new body of work by Stockholder which are interstitial; acting as both sculpture and hardware, adjuncts to furniture or walls, and as plinths for other works.
Not yet a widely acknowledged post-digital subgenre, but seemingly the organizing principle behind Frances Stark's disappointing greengrassi solo show: a neatly ordered exhibition of seven paintings, a collage, and four videos (Sony cubes placed on white plinths in a white cube) that offer a glimpse into culture clashes that take place in the eclectic world of Stark's cloud - space.
Katharina Fritsch Hahn / Cock, 2013 Commissioned for the Mayor of London's Fourth Plinth Programme Photograpy: Gautier Deblonde
In spring 2017, two out of the 12 shortlisted proposals will be selected as the first two High Line Plinth commissions.
It got to the heart of the Fourth Plinth project with the unembellished completeness that characterizes Whiteread's casts.
Hand - painted reinforced clay on painted mdf plinth.
Cheap aluminum kettles and tiffin boxes, decorative wall tapestry and textiles, mostly collected from markets in Cirebon, are either hung on the walls or are placed on wooden plinths as if in a museum, transforming every day objects into precious items.
This year, Wenman came up with the idea to do an open booth presentation, called «Field», featuring 42 sculptures on plinths by the gallery's roster of artists.
Latest «Save The Arts» Work YINKA SHONIBARE CREATES A WORK FOR CAMPAIGN AGAINST CUTS A striking new work by Fourth Plinth artist Yinka Shonibare was unveiled today as part of the campaign supported by over 100 leading British artists against the government's proposed funding cuts of the arts.The artist's work shows a slash across a -LSB-...]
The tapered square plinth base, with mythological animal motifs, leads up to the highly ornate body...
«Alter Ego» includes a sculptural plinth displaying objects from Cynthia's world, while a monitor imbedded in the artwork plays a video of her activities.
Opulent American Black walnut furniture mounted on stainless - steel plinths for a stylish floating effect.
Cornaro structures the gallery space with matte black plinths built at varying heights, which she adorns with objects; an ornamental stone carving covered in lichen, a marble urn, a clay model cottage, rolls of green velvet.
Painted in bright colors and solid black against monochrome backgrounds, the forms recall Wood's more realistically rendered potted plants as well as abstract sculptures atop plinths.
In an adjacent gallery, 24 architects were invited to produce models in response to a historic interior; they rest on low plinths like so many grad school assignments, albeit professionally fabricated.
And what a mighty cup it is too — a small figurine clambering out of an oversized burst football in which he was presumably imprisoned, all atop a swirling plinth made from precious gold and silver plastic.
A Still Life of Flowers and Fruit arranged on a Stone Plinth in a Garden by Cornelis de Heem has been acquired by the National Trust with support from the Art Fund.
This body of 11 sculptures, arranged in a processional atop a low plinth in the center of the gallery, suggest reproduction and twinning as their subject.
«The Sky is thin as paper here... (slide projection)», 2004 1st projector: 28 slides 2nd projector: 32 slides dissolver unit, mirrored plinth installation view Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Köln 2004
One of his works, titled 99 Names of God comprised of names made of neon tubes situated in tumbleweeds atop marble plinths.
Solid mahogany drawers, moldings, parting rails and plinth base.
IMAN ISSA Devotees (Study for 2014), 2014 Walnut and wood sculpture, text panel under glass, white plinth Overall: 67 1/8 x 23 5/8 x 34 1/2 in.
The surface of each form has been meticulously, painstakingly, covered by layer upon layer of colored enamel paint, and they sit boldly upon plinths constructed from stacked cardboard boxes painted white.
Rondinone's new Mountain sculptures consist of rocks stacked vertically on concrete plinths in groups ranging between two and six.
Wirsum's Boxer (1967), a small papier - mâché goon pulled from the same pulp universe, glared out from a glass - topped plinth in the centre of the second space.
Fancy Painted Pine Tall Case Clock, Seth Thomas, Connecticut, c. 1830, the hood with three square plinths above the arched cornice molding and glazed tombstone door flanked by freestanding columns, More...
New York / LA's Matthew Marks displayed three small, charming ceramic sculptures by Ron Nagle (Young Throng, 2016; Hardy Plank, 2014; and Exposed Prosthetic, 2016) on individual plinths placed around the booth, giving them plenty of room to breathe.
How many people could name the men who occupy the three other plinths in Trafalgar Square?
Her four - part sculpture Wine is Strong / A King is Stronger / Women are Stronger Still / But Truth Conquers All, is made up of four tall plinths corresponding to the four lines of the title.
Ai Weiwei, «Feet», 2003, 10 Buddha's feet from sculptures of the Northern Wei period (386 — 534 CE), with individual wood plinths and table, 126 x 68 x 168 cm.
After vaulting up the metal staircase, we ran into a small plinth packed with three Bentley Continental GTs, guarding the adjacent glass door that hid a trio of blacked - out Lamborghinis — two Huracans, and a Murcielago.
Home - works 1 and Home - works 2 consist of reproductions of classical sculptures placed on brightly coloured painted brick plinths.
Acrylic plinth filled with used needles collected by Clean Needles Now (CNN) during regular exchange operations, c. early 1990s.
The light sources for her shadow stripes are chest - high plywood plinths, placed in the centre of a gallery and leveled off by a thin sheet of opaque black glass, which leaves an infinitesimal gap between wood and glass out of which light of penetrating intensity leaks.
... Yinka Shonibare with his Victory plinth design.
Recessed stainless - steel plinths give it a floating apearance.