Happy International Sculpture Day!
Celebrate this year by visiting a sculpture park or heading to a museum or gallery to take in a sculpture!
International Sculpture Day (ISDay) is a worldwide celebration event to further the International Sculpture Center’s (ISC) mission of advancing the creation and understanding of sculpture and its unique, vital contribution to society. ISDay occurs on the last Saturday of April every year. (International Sculpture Center)
Midnight Crossing, Zhuang Hong Li
Click on the link to see a quick video of this piece. It is a phenomenal experience to see how the colors change as you move from one end to the other. It is definitely 3-D, though positioned on the wall. It is a kinetic transformation that draws you in and leaves you feeling awed.
Chinese artist Zhuang Hong Yi is known for his vibrant canvases inspired by flowerbeds, each one featuring hundreds of pieces of folded and painted rice paper. These delicate sculptural buds create highly textural landscapes that pay tribute to Zhuang’s former adopted home of the Netherlands, where he has widely exhibited. Zhuang lives between China and Switzerland, where he continues to explore the peaceful qualities and emotional pull of nature —particularly flowers, which he has described as a universal language.
I LOVE sculpture and want to share more of my favorites with you. So feel free to comment to let me know what you like, or include a link to one of your favorites!
Golden Bird, Constantine Brancusi
Constantin Brancusi Romanian, 1876-1957 Golden Bird, about 1919 Bronze; limestone and wood base Minneapolis Institute of Art © 2000 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Slide your eyes along this tall, thin sculpture from top to bottom. What do you see? Bright, shiny bronze. A pointed tip. A sleekly rounded shape, tapering at the end. And then things change. The forms become geometric (triangles and circles), and the materials are stone and wood instead of bronze.
What do you think you are looking at? Does it seem familiar? The artist who made this sculpture didn’t include many details. He wanted, above all, to show the spirit of the figure. (MIA)
Sky Pesher, James Turrell
If you’re in Minneapolis and looking for an exciting place to chill and think, check out the ‘Sky Pesher’ at The Walker Art Center. It was created by James Turrell, an artist fascinated with space, time, and light. The photos don’t give this amazingly simplistic space the justice it deserves, so again, if you’re in the area, check this out! (Weloveallus)
Try creating your own Sky Pesher moment as I did recently at a stop light when the sky was particularly blue!
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‘Saw, Sawing’ (1996), Claes Oldenberg
What is it? A saw, sawing through the earth, get it? This sculpture was Oldenburg’s first commissioned in Japan and, with its bright orange handle and jagged weirdness, is designed to contrast with the surrounding area’s cold, sheer glass high-rises. (Timeout)
Where is it? Tokyo International Exhibition Center, Tokyo, Japan.
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