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.
Static art installations are a very powerful way of students having impact on, and ownership of, their school grounds,
small plinths and hidden corners can offer ideal display opportunities.
Not exact matches
Except for a
small mask in the office, all were located in the main gallery — chunky, disjointed, gouged figures in a variety of mediums (plaster, hemp, iron rebar, redwood, bronze), some standing fully upright but most lying about on
plinths.
The most curious and unusual sculpture of the fair was found at Dublin - based Kerlin Gallery's booth: a tiny, stunningly lifelike rendering of a crab whose front claws were molded from artist Dorothy Cross's own index fingers was painted silver, mounted on a
small white
plinth no more than two feet high (I'm not great with numbers, but as a reference, it's roughly as tall as my friend's art - going, Instagram - celebrity French Bulldog named Miss Pickle, if she sits upright).
Although some of her most iconic large - scale works aren't in this exhibition, such as her commission for the fourth
plinth in Trafalgar Square «Monument» (2001), and her haunting «Holocaust Memorial» (2000) which has a permanent location in Vienna, some
smaller and equally iconic works are featured at the Tate Britain including «Untitled» (One Hundred Spaces)(1995), a composed of 100 casts of the negative space beneath a chair, arranged like sentinels guarding the imposing sweep of the Duveen Galleries, beyond the classical columns of the entrance.
In the first room of his current show at 20 Hoxton Square, visitors are greeted by a selection of
small works mounted on
plinths.
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.
Explicitly positioning the artists as artwork, the pair will spend the duration of the performance, on a
plinth with a surface area just too
small for two people to comfortably occupy.
These replica parquet blocks, handmade by the artist, form impromptu
plinths for
small, domestic - sized objects of leather and metal.
In a trapezoidal room, plaster putti on
plinths — which young Joannou apparently collected from flea markets in Rome — are juxtaposed with Alexander McQueen hoof shoes and a
small Soulou drawing.
Small but highly sensuous objects by Ernesto Neto look like sex aids, hardly items to be secured on a gallery
plinth and gawked at.
Hauser & Wirth are showing all kinds of
small sculptures on a field of
plinths.
The Fourth
Plinth is the
smallest but most prominent sculpture park in the world.
This piece is an exact
small - scale replica of the larger statue — the family is cast in bronze and seated on a polished black granite
plinth.
As a method of unifying discrete works into a cohesive installation, Semo focuses on
small but critical details by designing hardware and
plinths that belie the rough affect of the work.
A third component consists of a series of stainless steel trays on low
plinths, packed with
small, single - use items, such as: condoms, latex gloves, dental dams, external catheters and pressure - reducing heel cups, designed to absorb, contain, and distribute their contents.
Considerably larger than a usual ship in a bottle, yet much
smaller than the real HMS Victory, in fact a 1:30 scale model, Shonibare's Nelson's Ship in a Bottle, was «the first commission on the Fourth
Plinth to reflect specifically on the historical symbolism of Trafalgar Square, which commemorates the Battle of Trafalgar, and will link directly with Nelson's column.»
YSP's Bothy Gallery documents Price's development of the male figure and fascination with the minutiae of body language and facial expression, from the 2008 nudes Orpheus Street and Ducie Street, whose titles are taken from locations near Price's London studio; through
small heads, such as Untitled (Cornrows) made in 2010; to sculptures on
plinths made in 2011 —
small - scale and unassuming black male figures with relaxed postures and dressed in casualwear.
Morgan is one of its featured artists; her piece Communion — in which two
small birds hang from a noose inside a bell - jar, dripping two
small clots of blood onto a dinner plate — sits on a
plinth in the middle of the gallery.
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.
With an amount of blase, Golden confirms and combines two well - trodden tropes: to make something bigger or
smaller makes it art and to put something on a
plinth makes it art.
The Fourth
Plinth Programme is the
smallest but most prominent sculpture park in the world.
Tracy Emin proposes to place a sculpture of a
small group of meerkats on the empty
plinth as a symbol of unity and safety.
Halogen spotlights set into a stainless - steel
plinth provide useful task lighting and a display of
small bowls on top and coffee cup paintings above add a simple decorative touch.