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Acrylic on wood panel 20.85" x 17.85" 11.20.2024. www.saatchiart.com/en-jp/art/Painting-Forschungsschiff-Up...
Sarah Barber - Woven Sculptures
Exhibition
LBC Depot, December 2011- January 2012, 31 Rutland Street, Leicester, LE1 1RE, 0116 261 6800, www.lcbdepot.co.uk.
Woven sculptures on display in new forms, along with new resin-fabric experiments.
I create the work from your inspiration, focusing on colour, shape and form, building abstract and decorative representations, culminating in a tactile environment which will complement and enhance the architectural setting to suit each location individually.
King of Nowhere, 2015
Cast iron and mixed media
"This pair of works are my reaction after talking to a group of young men from Skelmersdale, Lancashire. They are the victims of poverty, chaotic parenting, bad role models and disrupted education...Deprived of acceptable badges of status, job, money, education, power and family, they exercised their masculinity in a way that seemed to echo back to the dawn of humanity - they defended territory...The Digmoor Tapestry is a map of the estate they defended...The King of Nowhere resembles an African power figure, but it is made of cast iron - the material used for bollards, those pieces of street furniture placed to deny access." GP
From the exhibition guide:
"Born in Chelmsford, Essex in 1960, Grayson Perry is a chronicler of contemporary life. This exhibition of tapestries, woodcut prints, bronze sculptures and ceramic works will lead you through the artist's most recent explorations of masculinity, national identity and populism. You'll discover autobiographical references throughout the exhibition - the artist's childhood, his family and his transvestite alter ego Claire - as well as familiar contemporary figures through which Perry investigates how our identities are shaped and how our values are built."
*inspired after seeing an 8mm film of my friend Beatriz Escobar doing her embrujo in the 70's for a view of a similar performance of equal intensity, see encl. clip: youtu.be/WcydgVexQ04
p.s. have not seen the film since the 70's, it was found with traded art and posters in my garden shack. In spite of the atmospheric changes the films were in remarkably good condition; they were kept in a metal ammunition container we used to buy at army surplus stores in the 70'
Standard Deviations: Types and Families in Contemporary Design exhibition at MoMA. The exhibition runs through January 30, 2012.
More info at moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1152
*detail section: 'montando Aurea" from four sections; best seen on black. See Roberto Torres, youtu.be/uEKHY3M2e7Q
p.s. "Caballo Viejo" was immensely popular in the seventy's and it seems as if coming back with vengeance. /best seen on black.