Not exact matches
Big is sort of an understatement here; once I did some quick math to put it
into scale, the
sculpture I would have to create would be almost 8 feet tall, 14 feet wide, and 12 feet long.
Hauser & Wirth's slate tends to favor abstraction and large -
scale sculpture, but the gallery, which has spaces in New York, Zurich, London, Somerset, England, and Los Angeles (under the name Hauser Wirth & Schimmel), will soon move further
into the photography... Read More
loom ProKnuckles and Bubbles In his large -
scale paintings and new explorations in
sculpture, Conrad Ruiz (b. 1983, Monterey Park, CA) delves
into the concept of...
Four more similarly
scaled sculptures stand in four space - saving cubbyholes, each of which has been cut
into the middle of each of the four walls.
Through hand - drawn sketches, interactive
sculpture, immersive video, and a lineup of more than 30 structural models at 1:500
scale, the exhibition gives insight
into SOM's practice, past and present, as it seeks to address physical and environmental challenges with concise and honestly expressed solutions.
In his large -
scale paintings and new explorations in
sculpture, Conrad Ruiz (b. 1983, Monterey Park, CA) delves
into the concept of machismo.
By sharing key stylistic elements in the artworks, such as their frontality, obsession with surface and static quality, the contemporary
sculptures echo the mystery and
scale of Nevelson's pieces, registering as somber black objects dissolving
into complex surfaces.
She plans to use her time at the 18th Street Art center to meld the two mediums: bringing together the art of painting with the aesthetics of tattooing with works on paper, and to create some small
scale sculptures that she can see in her mind's eye and now need to figure out how to bring
into fruition.
For the third consecutive year, Public will transform Collins Park
into an outdoor exhibition space with large -
scale sculpture, video, installation and live performance.
In his large
scale sculptures and wall mounted works, Hodges challenges expectations of space and movement by placing common materials
into a new fragmented context.
Other spectacular works display the imagination of Hong Kong artists, such as Amy Cheung's full - size wooden toy tank, which visitors can climb
into and operate, and Adrian Wong's large -
scale animatronic soft
sculptures.
Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1948, Cildo Meireles is a conceptual artist whose large -
scale sculptures and installations transform everyday objects
into politically charged works of art.
In Larger than Life, it's not celebrity but
scale that draws your eye, as you look up at the
sculpture that expands
into the space.
This exhibition was arranged in two parts, with the large -
scale sculptures displayed on heavy - duty warehouse shelving that turned the gallery
into a big box warehouse and another gallery space that contained his models and drawings.
Using the mediums of photography, video, sound and
sculpture to examine notions of time, freedom, play and power, Gonzalo Lebrija often incorporates the geometry of semi-folded paper planes
into his large -
scale works, painted over as hardened surfaces.
The resulting
sculptures, which she worked
into by hand, sometimes adding a lick of white paint or a shade of coloured pencil, are of a human -
scale and could equally be age - worn human figures or gnarled tree trunks — again, the human and the natural is a juxtaposition Carey enjoys exploiting.
For a new
sculpture project he recycles bundled stacks of flattened cardboard
into anthropomorphic monsters with enormous googly eyed stares, and the artist's iconic panda returns in large -
scale pattern paintings like enormous swatches of custom designed fabric.
Fast - forward to today: David Zwirner and Iwan Wirth have expanded
into huge new spaces on 20th and 18th Streets respectively, creating a southern hub of museum -
scale exhibitions (Dieter Roth for Wirth; Donald Judd and Dan Flavin for Zwirner); Sean Kelly's new space, on Tenth Avenue at 36th Street, which opened with a decidedly minimalist exhibition of
sculptures by Antony Gormley, forms a northern border.
The artist has also expanded, in his more recent work,
into working in large -
scale sculpture.
Comprised of found material seen every day on city streets, such as old billboard signs and orange traffic cones, this large -
scale speaker
sculpture turned the gallery space
into a laboratory for art and sound.
Unhindered by any hierarchical order of materials, Mason embraced ceramic practice and went on to translate the physicality and intuitive spirit of Abstract Expressionism and other prescient ideas
into large -
scale clay
sculpture.
JJ Peet's small
scale assemblage
sculptures and frenetic drawings take over On Stellar Rays» Lower East Side gallery space and turn it
into a world of nonlinear connections and discord.
Produced over a quarter of a century beginning in 1964, the maquettes offer a unique view
into the sculptor's creative process: some illustrate the origins of compositions for monumental works, while others document ideas not realized ultimately in large
scale or provide fascinating examples of early sculptural ideas that underwent significant transformation as they emerged as full -
scale sculptures in the exhibition chronicle Arneson's evolution as an artist and the development of his freewheeling creativity and prodigious imagination.
When it comes to large -
scale artistic interventions
into the natural world, the movement that usually leaps to mind is Land Art — huge, muscular
sculptures carved or pulled from the earth by heavy machinery at the command of men like Robert Smithson and Walter De Maria, self - styled «gruff individualists» who claimed the studio and gallery were simply too small to contain their big ideas.
Based on studies for her large -
scale sculptures, they address perspective and turn an architectural object
into an extension of the fictional places Iglesias constructs.
The
sculpture was outwardly a full -
scale model of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, and was a leap from handmade art
into expensive outsourced fabrication.
In detailed, large -
scale drawings, installations,
sculptures and objects, Avery forms a bizarre imaginary reality out of diverse philosophical ideas and concepts: Fabulous creatures, deities, tourists and adventurers are embedded in a complex social structure, merging
into an entire cosmos that ranges between pure fantasy and theoretical reflection.more
The exhibition presents new
sculptures, works on paper, and video works alongside large -
scale site - specific installations with live plants that visitors are able to step
into.
Since the 1970s, Burden has channeled the daring spirit of his early life - threatening performances
into sculptures that embody technical feats on an imposing
scale.
Emerging in LA's burgeoning art scene in the 1950s, John Mason transcended any hierarchical order of materials to embrace ceramic practice, translating the physicality and intuitive spirit of Abstract Expressionism and other prescient ideas
into large -
scale clay
sculpture.
The show transports some of the elements debuted there
into the much more generous
scale of the gallery, and include a range of drawings, paintings, and
sculptures made of chicken - wire, wax, and plaster.
Stuart's original approach to material and process has seen her create large -
scale site - specific works in the landscape, sculptural installations incorporating objects, drawings, and audio - visual elements, as well as photographs, drawings and
sculptures that bring the material of landscape — earth and rock —
into the gallery.
In the past, Silverthorne has replicated full -
scale items in her studio in
sculptures of miniature proportion and enlarged the most transitory matter of all — sweat, tears, and ulcerous bacteria —
into cast - rubber pieces.
Active for much of his career in Nigeria, he's known for his iconic «bottle - top installations»: large -
scale assemblages of thousands of pieces of aluminium sourced from alcohol recycling stations and sewn together with wire and transformed
into metallic cloth - like
sculptures.
Slightly larger than human
scale, the
sculptures are constructed from square steel tubing — crushed
into soft folds and painted in vivid colors — and assembled with found steel and other industrial elements.
This exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield explores how Caro incorporated architectural features
into his work, from the large -
scale painted steel
sculptures made in the 1960s to his final pieces created using large sheets of perspex.
This unusual fusion of abilities has created a continuing series of large -
scale works that have entered
into the common awareness of contemporary
sculpture and
into museum collections throughout the world.
Highlights from the show include Royal College of Art graduate Jodie Carey's eight foot chandeliers made out of fluff from a hoover, Tom Price's animated, small
scale sculpted plaster heads, Emma Puntis's mesmerizing miniature portraits, Tatsuya Kimata's ironic
sculptures of everyday objects sculpted using traditional marble and stone carving skills, Doug White's majestic palm trees crafted from thousands of abandoned car tyres retrieved from road sides in Belize, Michael Lisle - Taylor's army uniforms crossed with straight jackets, which play to his 19 years in the Navy, and Boo Ritson's large -
scale photographs of people she transforms
into characters caked in thick paint, which have sold out in her second solo show only a year after graduating.
Working with seductive commercial materials such as the high chromium stainless steel of his «Balloon Dog»
sculptures or his vinyl «Inflatables», shifts of
scale, and an elaborate studio system involving many technicians, Koons turns banal objects
into high art icons.
This exhibition features six of Anatsui's large -
scale sculptures — five are wall mounted and one extends
into the viewers» space across the floor.
Paintings,
sculptures, and architectural -
scale installations are presented in UCCA's Great Hall, organized spatially
into an immersive environment that simultaneously contains and is physically structured by these diverse works.
It develops
into a multi-act articulated series of mechanized
sculpture in miniature
scale, a distillation of the natural circus.
For her debut, Mohamoud further develops her large -
scale installation recently featured at The Art Gallery of Ontario, through her continued investigation
into binaries and aesthetics of sports culture as it relates to race and gender, through industrial
sculpture, text, and printed photographs on varying...
Stella has received grand -
scale public
sculpture commissions and, as recorded in Paul Goldberger's 2007 book «Frank Stella: Painting
Into Architecture,» expanded ever further.
Eventually, these early drawings started to manifest as real audio cables and other music residue — like CD cases —
into sculptures and large -
scale wall installations.
Since the 1970's Judy Pfaff has synthesized
sculpture, painting, and architecture
into dynamic large -
scale environments and innovative works on paper.
The back wall is painted in gradated neon orange that brings to mind a nuclear flash, gallery benches are dripping and melting
into the floor, and a large -
scale symbolic
sculpture holds court in the center.
Printed on unbound pages, this publication shows the development of Ray's
sculpture alongside a set of life - size details that can be reconfigured
into two full -
scale photographs of the work.
Working in a stunning variety of materials — including wood, stone, metal, plaster, resin, acacia thorns — the artist makes palpable and present the analogous processes of nature and art: carving large trees along their growth patterns to reveal the sapling contained within; elaborating the interior space of his closed hand
into a large -
scale sculpture that both contains his hand and enlarges the space it contains; rendering the swirling mists of his breath in the cold in tactile clay forms that contain the impression of his body.
Based on studies for her large -
scale sculptures, they address perspective and turn an architectural object
into an extension of the fictional places Iglesias constructs.