Sculptures
dal 9/7/2006 al 19/9/2006
Segnalato da
Boli, Bura
John Beech
Louise Bourgeois
Alberto Giacometti
Josephsohn
Kimsooja
David Rabinowitch
David Smith
9/7/2006
Sculptures
Peter Blum Chelsea, New York
The exhibition features an eclectic mix of sculptures-spanning several centuries and highlighting a wide range of materials -from various geographic locales and cultures. Works by Boli, Bura, John Beech, Louise Bourgeois, Alberto Giacometti, Josephsohn, Kimsooja, David Rabinowitch, and David Smith.
Boli, Bura, John Beech, Louise Bourgeois, Alberto Giacometti, Josephsohn, Kimsooja, David Rabinowitch, and David Smith
Peter Blum is pleased to announce the exhibition, Sculptures: Boli, Bura, John Beech, Louise Bourgeois, Alberto Giacometti, Josephsohn, Kimsooja, David Rabinowitch, and David Smith, opening on July 10, 2006 at Peter Blum Chelsea, 526 West 29th Street.
The exhibition features an eclectic mix of sculptures-spanning several centuries and highlighting a wide range of materials -from various geographic locales and cultures. Bura, funerary terra cottas of the third- to tenth-century from the West African burial ground Bura-Asinda-Sikka stand next to one of Giacometti's iconic, exaggertatedly elongated figures. Smith's iron sculpture Dancer (1935), like a drawing in space, plays with open and enclosed forms. The Boli, a shrine figure of the Bamana from Mali, is built up and molded from such materials as wood, earth, clay, bones, chewed kola nuts, sacrificial blood, urine, honey, beer, bark, and other substances. In its amorphous shape, the Boli can be compared to Josephsohn's monumental Half-figure, untitled (Lola) (1994). Bourgeois explores issues connected to autobiographical experiences: betrayal, familial relationships, sexuality, motherhood, abandonment, and independence. In Bottari, a bundle made out of traditional Korean textile, Kimsooja alludes to questions of place and displacement. Rabinowitch's floor piece from the 1970s investigates the properties and relations of perceived mass in terms of weight, viscosity, and density, while Beech engages with issues of functionality and abstraction.
Image: Kimsooja, A Mirror Woman, 2002
Installation of 27 Korean bedcovers hung horizontally across mirrored gallery walls on 14 clotheslines. Accompanied by soundtrack of Tibetan chants and ceiling fans.
For additional information and photographic material please contact Simone Subal.
Peter Blum Chelsea
526 West 29th Street New York, NY 10001
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