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Joel Shapiro : untitled / Joel Shapiro.
LIBRA NB237.S48 A4 2012 1 v. + DVD
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shapiro, Joel, artist.
- Shiff, Richard, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shapiro, Joel--Exhibitions.
- Shapiro, Joel.
- Sculpture, American--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Sculpture, American.
- Genre:
- DVD-Video discs.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 48 pages : color illustrations ; 17 x 23 cm + 1 videodisc (4 minutes, 29 seconds : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Untitled
- Place of Publication:
- Houston, Texas : Rice Gallery, [2012]
- System Details:
- DVD digital optical
- DVD NTSC
- DVD video file DVD video
- Summary:
- "Joel Shapiro's new installation at Rice Gallery is a gravity-defying array of color, form, shape, and line. Wooden elements, vibrantly painted with supersaturated pigment and casein, seemingly levitate in the air as they are held in tension by string stretching from the center of the gallery's floor to points on the ceiling. The individual elements are physically tied to the surrounding architecture, yet seem completely free from it as they float and twist in a state of suspended animation. The configuration is at once formally rigorous and utterly spontaneous, as color and form appear to simultaneously implode and explode from the center of the gallery space. A celebrated artist who has been making work since the late 1960s, Joel Shapiro is well known for his geometric, abstract sculptures that appear to bound across museum walls, floors, and sculpture gardens. In these sculptures that often allude to the human figure, Shapiro recombines simple forms to play with the internal and external relationships that define a sculpture. He looks at how the individual parts relate to one another, and how the sculpture as a whole relates to its surroundings (floor, ceiling, and viewer). Using dynamic ways of joining wood, bronze, or metal, Shapiro creates work with a vitality and energy that is completely new and fresh, and at the same time, addresses fundamental formal concerns that cross centuries of art making."--Rice University Art Gallery.
- Notes:
- Catalog of an exhibition held at Rice Gallery, Houston, Texas, February 2-March 18, 2012.
- Foreword by Kimberly Davenport; essay by Richard Shiff.
- ISBN:
- 193228141X
- 9781932281415
- OCLC:
- 826438525
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