In his first major retrospective, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1971, Chamberlain installed a giant barge in the rotunda, from which visitors could watch other visitors as they wandered along the ramp occupied by Chamberlain's metal, Plexiglas, and small -
scale foam sculptures.
Not exact matches
The exhibition surveys a broad range of inventive methods and materials employed by Rivers over the course of his career, which includes intimate works of graphite, collage, large -
scale paintings, life - size
sculptures and
foam - sculpted relief - paintings.
Benglis's work continued to evolve during the 1970s leading to large -
scale sculptures and installations made from polyurethane
foam.
The four larger
scale sculptures being exhibited here for the first time, Vincent Fecteau's biggest
sculptures to date, are once again made out of papier - mâché but this time built around a core of insulating
foam as their base material.
She invented dramatic, large -
scale sculptures in surprising materials (including, most memorably, poured polyurethane
foam with phosphorescent pigment) that can make the likes of Richard Serra, Anish Kapoor and Matthew Barney look timid.
Carved from industrial
foam and polyurethane, the colossal bagel
sculptures are a witty riff on American sculptor Claes Oldenburg's monumental
scales and Constantin Brancusi's modernist columns, with a gothic twist.
Carved from industrial
foam and polyurethane, the colossal bagel
sculptures are a witty riff on American sculptor Claes Oldenburg's monumental
scales and Constantin Brancusi's modernist columns.
Large -
scale works to be exhibited include John Chamberlain's The Sylvester Barge, a «couch»
sculpture made in 1982 of urethane
foam and nylon cord measuring 6 x 15 feet; a ceiling - mounted «Tarpaulin» painting by the young English artist, Gary Hume; and Katharina Fritsch's Knot, a new painted plaster
sculpture of rat - tails that relates to her 1993 Rat - King installation at the Dia Center for the Arts.