Contemporary Sculpture
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This lecture reveals how contemporary artists have forged new territories. Please join Sophie as she explains two important artist: RACHEL WHITEREAD- revealing the negative space and CORNELIA PARKER- connecting objects with the fragility of the human condition. more info below
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In recent years, artists have blurred the boundaries between all identities and media, to forge new territories, with recyclable materials, sound, light, movement, film projection,technological and digital developments, even 3-D printing, to create immersive, participatory, and multi-sensorial experiences.
Concepts such as land art, textile and fibre art, environmental installations, even ephemeral gaseous structures, relate to the description of sculpture.
· Rachel Whiteread (born 1963) was the first woman to win the Turner Prize in 1993. She casts everyday objects, or the space between, under or around, furniture and buildings. In her own poetic description, Whiteread “mummifies the air around a room to express the void rather than the structure”. She exhumes memories and gives a voice to shapes that are never noticed, forcing us to look at physical locations and emotional places that are forgotten or overlooked.
· Cornelia Parker (born 1956) is a conceptual visual artist. She engages with…
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