It's
a standing bronze figure, more than 30 feet tall, to be installed before the Venice Biennale next summer.
Not exact matches
Stood blankly in the foyer is Lynn Chadwick's importunate
bronze, Cloaked
Figure IX (1978).
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.
Jim Lambie has contributed an outsize belt, coiled up as if by a tidy giant, and Ricky Swallow has a jolly little
bronze titled
Standing Figure (baby), 2013, that taps an aesthetic somewhere between voodoo and Blue Peter.
However, four
bronze sculptures titled Tengu Element, 2015, each a representation of the deeply hybrid Japanese
figure,
stood out.
The series also acknowledges the works of the brothers Diego and Alberto Giacometti — the
standing lamps physical presence, as well as their air of isolation, share a connection with Alberto Giacometti's tall, gaunt
bronze figures, while the influence of Diego Giacometti's furniture, in particular his lamps, is evident in the form of Boyce's sculptures.
In Smith's «Untitled III (Upside Down Body with Beads)» (1993), a
bronze female
figure stood ass prone, feet planted in her own excrement, rendered in a beautiful pool of beaded glass.
Two identical
bronze figures, one
standing, the other lying across an altar or table, suggest a sacrificial tableau against which is set a large wooden
figure and carved head.
The majority of his constructions, built from oblong rectangular blocks of wood or
bronze, raise associations with human
figures: some of them
stand on one leg, others on two, others lie on the floor, some seem to climb the walls.
Five black and white photographs of Henry Moore's
Standing Figure bronze, 1950, in situ at Glenkiln Sculpture Park, Scotland, bearing studio stamp verso and another photograph of Atom Piece by Henry Moore, British Sculpture in the Sixties label versoRead more
The repetitiveness and similarity of the
bronze «
Standing Figures» (2000) gives them a kind of artistic currency, echoing serial form common to contemporaries such as Donald Judd (1928 - 1994) and Eva Hesse (1936 - 1970), that singly they might appear to lack.
This lamp features a Chinese green hard stone female
standing figure on the original
bronze and brass base mounted to a new Lucite base.