His work is characterized by an immense formal repertoire, which since the 1980s has included transformations of everyday materials alongside
traditional sculptural materials such as wood and brass.
Here, Saban reinterprets
traditional sculptural material in order to plumb its relationship to painting, specifically by exposing the minerals in the stone, linking this to pigments used by painters from earlier eras.
With playful references to twentieth century sculptural traditions e.g. Henry Moore, Richard Serra, Steve is conceived as a quirky but friendly monument to the person of the future
combining traditional sculptural materials and new technology.
IN HIS 1966 ESSAY «Entropy and the New Monuments» Robert Smithson discusses why he and his colleagues
eschewed traditional sculptural materials such as marble and granite in favor of artificial ones, such as plastic, chrome, and electric light to make works that «are not built for the ages, but rather against the ages.»
Inverting the implications
of traditional sculptural materials, his work upends ideas of monumentality and places his subjects somewhere between immovable and weightless, the force of life and the downward pull of death.
More recently Gallaccio has begun to
use traditional sculptural materials alongside organic ones, such as an apple tree cast in bronze on which real apples are hung to rot over the course of its display.
The artist presents a curated selection of sculptures that draw inspiration from aspects of domestic handicraft and
traditional sculptural materials.
Influenced by literature, film, and architecture, Helfgott incorporates audio, kinetics, photography, assemblage, projections, and
traditional sculptural materials to address such diverse subjects as the self - portrait, landscape painting, and gender and age transformation.
From the»40s on, American Abstract Expressionism dominated the Western art landscape and returned many artists» attention to the evocative formal qualities of paint on canvas and
traditional sculptural materials — although the biggest figure associated with «Action Painting», Jackson Pollock, also stuck detritus including cigarette butts, coins, buttons, and keys onto the surfaces of his paintings.
The artist will present a curated selection of sculptures that draw inspiration from aspects of domestic handicraft and
traditional sculptural materials.
A dazzling world of glass, beads and chains Instead of
the traditional sculptural materials of wood, stone and clay, Lee uses glass, beads and chains — industrial materials that symbolize modernism.