Description:
square metal frame with "tents" of canvas attached to armature with metal wire forming three dimensional wall hung piece; abstract
Label Text:
As if turning her sculpture inside out, Bontecou fully exposes the skeleton of this work, revealing structure, process, and material. Welded joints are left unrefined, and wires are twisted into sharp barbs puncturing the skin-like surface of the canvas. It incorporates manufactured materials, yet suggests a natural or hand-made form.
1959 marked the year of Bontecou's first one-woman show at the age of twenty-eight. Difficult to classify, her work was hailed as an important feminist statement, both in its evocation of traditional patchwork fabric assemblages and its groundbreaking development using an entirely new sculptural vocabulary. She went on to create much larger "hole sculptures" during the 1960s, often using army surplus material to express her responses about the Cold War.
Tags:
abstract Subjects:
Art, Abstract; Canvas Link to share this object record:
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