Let's live among history, if only for tonight .
Nothing beats an interior filled with art that commands the space. Personally, living with art & antiques is a top priority. Mindless flipping through the internet this morning produced this top image of a casual loft space.
It always shocks me into a delightful frenzy when I see important sculpture being used in interiors. It's a gamble for sure, but a gamble that we should be willing to take. Thomas Houseago is a Los Angeles sculptor that has deservedly been getting attention for many years now. His earlier shows at David Kordansky (2008) were hunks of material mutated into forms that were hard to ignore. I admit, they kinda left me weak at the knees. Has he left David Kordansky for another L.A. gallery (he seems to be missing from the roster.) ? His recent show in New York at Michael Werner, "the Moon, the Stars, the Sun" can be seen here...
bottle head, from recent show at Michael Werner
Tuf-Cal, hemp, iron rebar
"Thomas Houseago’s figurative sculptures appear physically imposing and powerful in their size and positioning yet fragmented and vulnerable in their construction. To build these works, Houseago begins with a structure of iron rods and then adds a variety of traditional sculptural materials such as plaster, hemp, and wood. Some of his works incorporate graphite or charcoal sketches of faces and anatomy on plaster and wood panels. Monstrous yet unthreatening, this work— a part-human, part-animal being—is in a transitional pose between walking and crawling, weighted on the flat expanses of its plaster hands and feet. Houseago’s combination of sculpting and drawing challenges conventional aesthetic boundaries between three-dimensionality and flatness, monumentality and spontaneity. For the artist, Baby represents a hopeful “beginning,” one that nods affectionately to the riddle about the lifecycle of humans that the Sphinx posed to Oedipus: “What goes on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?”
taken from whitney site here..
interiors riddling with art
Let's live among history, if only for tonight .
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