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(0)Paweł Althamer
Author
Series
Publisher
Phaidon Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Pawel Althamer (b.1967) originally trained as a sculptor, but his work also bears the marks of relational art - social, collaborative, participatory art that is concerned less with producing objects than with composing human interactions. Often dematerialized to the point of invisibility, this work also increasingly enlists human participants, often in what the artist describes as 'reality directed'.
Publisher
Hayward Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"'The Human Factor: the Figure in Contemporary Sculpture' brings together the work of 25 leading international artists, in whose practice the human form plays a central role. Over the past 25 years, artists have reinvented figurative sculpture by looking back to earlier movements in art history as well as imagery from contemporary culture. Setting up dialogues with modernist as well as classical and archaic models of art, these artists engage and...