Sentences with phrase «sculptural figuration and abstraction»

The exhibition will also present a group of the artist's large - scale, anthropomorphic Lemurenköpfe (Lemure Heads), which playfully meld sculptural figuration and abstraction and which were first shown at documenta IX, Kassel (1992).

Not exact matches

A trove brimming with variety, from small abstractions, lyrical figuration, to taped performances, and their associated sculptural sets, Brātescu's protean energies were a welcome surprise.

His work, from early minimal objects to increasingly expansive and complex forms, has always dealt with such central issues of the sculptural tradition as size and scale, balance and imbalance, figuration and abstraction.

Since the 1970s Merz has explored and expanded upon the threshold between abstraction and figuration in her mixed media works on paper, expressionistic clay heads and larger sculptural installations.

A similar tension is prevalent in Förg's sculptural work, where bronze masks flout a fine line between figuration and abstraction.

Tony Cragg's work supplants any longstanding art historical division between abstraction and figuration: his sculptural innovation is to fuse both styles in one work and to make bronze into a malleable material.

In between fluid abstraction and sculptural figuration, these works become three - dimensional pictorial spaces with a potential for image making.

With an acute understanding of sculptural language, Woods» interpretations shift between figuration and abstraction imbuing this central tension with volume, weight and interior mystery.