miércoles, 11 de enero de 2012

Exhibitions spike interest in postwar British sculpture.

Wel, this is my area, the sculptures. And today we have to take an article from guardian.co.uk, and make a summary.

The article talks about the new exhibitions from old sculpture pieces from 50's. It explains that on this times, there was not many interest to see sculptures like cubes and cones, or bronze biscuits, and explains that it happened because the end of second war. And now, there are a pair of exhibitions that pretend to collect that old pieces of sculpture, and show them. The first is located at London's Pangolin Galery, and its name is "Exorcising the Fear". The catalogue from this time, was described like "The geometry of the fear". And about this phrase, the curator Polly Bielecka says that is no longer applying, because she don believe the sculptors were afraid from the future. She says that they made their careers on this time, using that topics, but they were not really feeling themselves part of it. And about the sculptures, the most are on museums or private collections, but she has made an effort to collect a considerable quantity of related works.
The article says that de 1952' sculptors generation is a period that has been almost omitted, and just one artist was par of the Royal Academy of British Sculpture, and Bielecka clarify that by her point of view, the artists from that year were the mediators between Moore and Hepworth, and the Minimalist 1960' generation.
The article point out that the Sculptures have a very good selling, even when they are not in a good relation with the museums.
Finally, Bielecka tell us her interest is that the sculptures brings us to mind the humour way from the pieces, and not the fear.

Information taken from www.guardian.com.uk

2 comentarios:

  1. I liked this article (I wrote about this too), and I liked the sculptures :D I would like be in London to see it :c

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  2. I like the name of the exhibition "exorcising the fear" and the finality :P

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