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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Sculpture & other three-dimensional art forms > Sculpture
Jacobo Castellano, (Jaen, 1976), is one of the most complex and
solid contemporary Spanish artists. He uses engraving to create a
body of work based on the emotions and sensations that are hidden
in his personal memory. In his work he uses elements such as
curtains, wire, small piggy banks, coffins or those rhombuses that
were placed on the top of the TV screen. These elements are
superimposed creating structures that seem to be on the verge of
collapse and that seem to want to hide something or point to a
place to hide and protect themselves from imminent collapse. The
work of Jacobo Castellano follows a defined line in which the
recovery of remembrances stored in his memory leads to a deep
reflection on essential issues such as identity, or life and death.
Numerous collections of contemporary art have their production,
like ARTIUM. Basque Center-Museum of Contemporary Art; CAAC.
Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art; CGAC. Galician Center of
Contemporary Art; Montenmedio Contemporary Art Foundation; or the
Rafael Boti Provincial Plastic Arts Foundation, among others.
Contents: Rincones polvorientos de la vida / Life's Dusty Corners,
by Javier Hontoria El juego sin fin (notas de un coleccionista /
The Endless Game (Notes of a Collector) by Luis Caballero Martinez
Conversation with Joao Mourao and Luis Silva Text in English and
Spanish.
Le Corbusier and Sardinian-born sculptor Costatino Nivola met in
1946 in New York. The Franco-Swiss architect had been living there
in exile since 1939 and was working with a team around Oscar
Niemeyer on the project for the United Nations headquarters. Their
meeting marked the beginning of a life-long friendship between the
two, with Le Corbusier sharing Nivola's Greenwich Village studio
while working on the United Nations project and, in 1950, creating
two murals in the kitchen of Nivola s East Hampton home. The artist
put together a collection of some 300 drawings, six paintings, and
six sculptures by his architect friend which today are held in
various places across Europe and America. This book tells the story
of the collection and explores its significance, thus contributing
to the understanding of the evolution of Le Corbusier's visual art
and its impact on the reception of his work in America. Text in
Italian.
"Marialuisa Tadei succeeds in giving the mystery of life abstract
form, implying that it trascends the nature in which it ordinarily
manifests itself suggesting that it is unwordly - beyond space and
time - like God's creative wisdom." - Donald Kuspit Tadei's
sculptures encourage the awareness of a vital and universal
spirituality, leaving the mind free to find its sense of
immortality. This monograph dedicated to the artist showcases her
works, characterised by her bold use of colour and materials,
including mosaic, glass, bronze and feathers, and by the lyrical
and spiritual qualities of her artistic language.
Much of the sculpture created in ancient Greece that has survived
is funerary in nature. These markers commemorating the dead were
traditionally placed along roads near the entrances to cities,
where they could be seen by all. Although the monuments vary
greatly in style, quality, and elaboration, they reach across the
millennia speaking the universal language of human grief.
This illustrated catalogue presents fifty-nine Greek funerary
monuments in the Antiquities collection of the Getty Museum.
Spanning the Classical and Hellenistic periods, this collection
offers new insight into Greek art and society that will be of
interest to both scholars and the general public.
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