Not exact matches
Much of the artist's imagery is
derived from the organic, such as the Anthropomorphic Self, 1978, a cedar and mahogany
sculpture of human height and
scale suggesting a «biological version of a cylinder.»
For his solo exhibition at May gallery & residency, Nicolas Sassoon will present a series of large
scale video projections and
sculptures derived from a recent body of digital animations titled Green Waves.
Ziegler has created an entirely new series of works tailor made for the underground space: his five imposing
sculptures are influenced by Brueghel's painting The Cripples and are surrounded by large -
scale light boxes depicting an abstracted thicket of horses legs,
derived from a detail of a Piero della Francesca fresco.
In Ballerinas (2010 — 14) from the Antiquity series, Koons depicts figurines of dancers,
derived from decorative porcelain, at the imposing
scale of classical
sculpture.
He employs his painterly arsenal: mounds of dense oil pigment, torn and reassembled bits of burlap, to create a large
scale head
derived from a Matisse painting or a
sculpture consisting of an assemblage of pieces of alabaster or rare and exotic wood evoking three dimensional marquetry to create the imposing «Menina» or the «Dama a Caballo»
derived from the paintings of Diego Velázquez.