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Medium: Fabric
Sculpture: 'Pair of Chopines'
Located in New York, NY
The artistic collaboration of Kelly Bugden + Van Wifvat has produced a thought-provoking body of sculptures, paintings, and constructions. Nature, childhood memories, and everyday archetypes take shape in unexpected combinations of materials. The works emerged as the tactile and visual senses channeled the ritualistic power and materiality of selected artifacts.
The resulting objects exist in a space between what they were originally and what they could become. A wheel, for example, is distorted as if seen through a prism. Their collaboration grew out of years of shaping materials into one-of-a-kind objects. Intuitively, the process of creating with their hands took an inward turn. Prism is a travelogue through memories and dreams, yielding abstract forms that capture moments of transformation.
Van Wifvat grew up with eight siblings and studied sculpture and environmental design in Minneapolis at MCAD. In 1979, he opened a storefront art gallery to promote the work of local artists. The space featured printed materials—art books, periodicals, fanzines, and postcard’s. Wifvat moved to New York in 1983 to study at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Parsons. In 1987, he co-founded Van Gregory & Norton design studio, specializing in convex mirrors and curtain hardware...
Category
2010s Conceptual Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Gesso, Muslin, Wood
Feminist Contemporary Fabric Mixed Media Sculptural Tapestry - Fascist Five 937
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Fascist Five 937 - Feminist Contemporary Fabric Mixed Media Sculptural Tapestry
Fascist Five 937 is from Linda Stein's Armored for Today's Events series, which advocat...
Category
2010s Feminist Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$38,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Sculpture of hare on wood base with mask on: 'Children 11'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an artist working primarily in sculpture and whose work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In addition to a solo and group shows at Ivy Bro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Basket of heads sculpture: 'Men, Women and Children'
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Jordan is an artist working primarily in sculpture and whose work uses multiple materials to produce unique, organic forms. In addition to a solo and group shows at Ivy Bro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Burlap, Plaster, Wood
Abstract Pillow Sculpture: 'Untitiled'
Located in New York, NY
The artistic collaboration of Kelly Bugden + Van Wifvat has produced a thought-provoking body of sculptures, paintings, and constructions. Nature, childhood memories, and everyday archetypes take shape in unexpected combinations of materials. The works emerged as the tactile and visual senses channeled the ritualistic power and materiality of selected artifacts.
The resulting objects exist in a space between what they were originally and what they could become. A wheel, for example, is distorted as if seen through a prism. Their collaboration grew out of years of shaping materials into one-of-a-kind objects. Intuitively, the process of creating with their hands took an inward turn. Prism is a travelogue through memories and dreams, yielding abstract forms that capture moments of transformation.
Van Wifvat grew up with eight siblings and studied sculpture and environmental design in Minneapolis at MCAD.
In 1979, he opened a storefront art gallery to promote the work of local artists. The space featured printed materials—art books, periodicals, fanzines, and postcard’s. Wifvat moved to New York in 1983 to study at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Parsons. In 1987, he co-founded Van Gregory & Norton design studio, specializing in convex mirrors and curtain hardware...
Category
2010s Conceptual Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Linen, Wood, Glue
Feminist Contemporary Fabric Leather Sculptural Tapestry - Kamala Harris 1042
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance (Kamala Harris) 1042 - Feminist Contemporary Fabric Leather Sculptural Tapestry
I Sell the Shad...
Category
2010s Feminist Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$36,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Feminist Figurative Mixed Media Contemporary Sculpture Warrior Waging Peace 1279
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Warrior Waging Peace: Addressing Fear 1279 - Feminist Figurative Mixed Media Black and Colorful Contemporary Sculpture
T...
Category
2010s Feminist Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$38,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Feminist Mixed Media Fabric Black Sculptural Tapestry- Four Against Bullying 809
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Four Against Bullying 809 - Feminist Mixed Media Fabric Black Sculptural Tapestry
Stein began to produce sculptural tapestries in 2011, in which she combines images fro...
Category
2010s Feminist Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
24'' Familia Purepecha / Wax Sculpture Mexican Folk Art
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
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Artisan: Maria del Socorro Madrigal Martinez
MASTERPIECE
Figures made and shaped with bee wax, dresses with Purepecha Traditional garment.
- Dimension...
Category
2010s Folk Art Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wax, Textile
$2,750 Sale Price
50% Off
Linda Stein, Picnic Case 928 - Contemporary Mixed Media Wunderkammer Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Picnic Case 928 - Contemporary Mixed Media Wunderkammer Sculpture
This work from Linda Stein's Displacement From Home series draws from the t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$11,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Feminist Figurative Mixed Media Contemporary Sculpture Warrior Waging Peace 1273
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Warrior Waging Peace: Words Matter 1273 - Feminist Figurative Mixed Media Black and Colorful Contemporary Sculpture
Fre...
Category
2010s Feminist Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Metal
$38,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Christo, Monuments: Portfolio with Ten Prints and One Sculpture, Signed Original
Located in Hamburg, DE
Christo's portfolio of 10 prints and a scale model sculpture of the ‘5,600 Cubic Meter Package’ for Documenta 4 in Kassel, 1968 (height 68 cm). Sold in white vinyl portfolio box. The...
Category
1960s Conceptual Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
14'' Aguacatero / Wax Sculpture Mexican Folk Art
Located in Jesus del Monte, MX
FREE SHIPPING TO WORLDWIDE!
Artisan: Maria del Socorro Madrigal Martinez
Figure made and shaped with bee wax, dresses with Purepecha Traditional garment.
- Dimensions: 14" x 20" ...
Category
2010s Folk Art Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Wax
$1,785 Sale Price
30% Off
Linda Stein, Flirtation 1236 - Contemporary Fabric Leather Metal Wall Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein started her Knights of Protection series in 2002 after being forced to evacuate her New York downtown studio for a year post-9/11. Stein's Knights are shield-like forms ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$15,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Linda Stein, Case 1204 - Contemporary Art Mixed Media Wunderkammer Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Case 1204 - Contemporary Art Mixed Media Wunderkammer Sculpture
This work from Linda Stein's Displacement From Home series draws from the tradition of wunderkammer/cabi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$4,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Feminist Contemporary Fabric Leather Sculpture Tapestry Masculinities: Image 846
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Masculinities: Image 846 - Feminist Contemporary Fabric Leather Sculpture Tapestry
Masculinities: Image 846 is from Linda Stein's Sexism series, which advocates an exp...
Category
2010s Feminist Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$36,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Feminist Contemporary Mixed Media Fabric Sculptural Tapestry - Nancy Wake 933
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Nancy Wake 933 - Feminist Contemporary Mixed Media Fabric Sculptural Tapestry
Nancy Wake 933 is from Linda Stein's Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females series, which highlights Holocaust-era female heroes.
Stein began to produce sculptural tapestries in 2013, in which she combines archival images of a subject with her pantheon of female Exemplars--Wonder Woman, Princess Mononoke, Storm, Nausicaa, Kannon, and Lady Gaga--with multiple fabrics and leather. Nancy Wake 933 features Nancy Wake, a British agent during the later part of World War II. She became a leading figure in the maquis groups of the French Resistance...
Category
2010s Feminist Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$36,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Feminist Contemporary Fabric Sculptural Tapestry - Legs Together and Apart 925
Located in New York, NY
Legs Together and Apart 925 is from Linda Stein's Sexism series, which advocates an expanded perspective of gender constructions--one that includes non-binary views of masculinities ...
Category
2010s Feminist Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$36,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Linda Stein, Case 905 - Contemporary Art Mixed Media Wunderkammer Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Case 905 - Contemporary Art Mixed Media Wunderkammer Sculpture
This work from Linda Stein's Displacement From Home series draws from the tradition of wunderkammer/cabin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$4,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Feminist Contemporary Sculptural Tapestry - Masculinities: Soft vs. Strong 860
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Masculinities: Soft vs. Strong 860 - Feminist Contemporary Sculptural Tapestry
Masculinities: Soft vs. Strong 860 is from Linda Stein's Sexism series, which advocates ...
Category
2010s Feminist Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$36,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Feminist Contemporary Mixed Media Fabric Sculptural Tapestry - Ten Heroes 882
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Ten Heroes 882 - Feminist Contemporary Mixed Media Fabric Sculptural Tapestry
Ten Heroes 882 is from Linda Stein's Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females series, which highl...
Category
2010s Feminist Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$36,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Feminist Contemporary Mixed Media Fabric Sculptural Tapestry - Ruth Gruber 816
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Ruth Gruber 816 - Feminist Contemporary Mixed Media Fabric Sculptural Tapestry
Ruth Gruber 816 is from Linda Stein's Holocaust Heroes:...
Category
2010s Feminist Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$28,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Feminist Contemporary Fabric Leather Sculptural Tapestry - November 6, 2015 865
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, November 6, 2015 New York Times 865 - Feminist Contemporary Fabric Leather Sculptural Tapestry
November 6, 2015 New York Times 865 is from Linda Stein's Sexism series,...
Category
2010s Feminist Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$36,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Feminist Contemporary Fabric Leather Sculptural Tapestry - Growing Up Female 931
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Growing Up Female 931 - Feminist Contemporary Fabric Leather Sculptural Tapestry
Growing Up Female: Jewelry, Guns, Landmines 931 is from Linda Stein's Sexism series, w...
Category
2010s Feminist Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$36,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Agrafeuse
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Lamontagne has an interest for the conflicting relationship that exists between the end of the landscape and its contemplation, as well as for the so-called death of painting. The pa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Le penseur
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Guillaume Lachapelle’s artistic practice is shaped predominantly by sculpture, expressed in the form of installations and detailed miniature models. Lachapelle presents playful unive...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Nylon
Mélange with intake
Located in Montreal, Quebec
The first work of Clint Neufeld I ever saw was a hulking engine rendered in pink and lime green ceramic, so large that it hung from its own crane. It was called Screaming Jimmy, the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Fabric, Wood
"Indonesian Golek Puppet (Male), " Handmade Carved, Painted Wood & Fabric c. 1900
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This Golek puppet was made by an unknown Indonesian artist using wood and cloth. It is approximately 29" tall.
Traditional Wayang Golek plays can be compared to European and North America: most performances revolve around Kings, Queens, Princes and Princesses who fight against evil, mystical, beings to (usually) end happily.
Three-dimensional Indonesian puppets...
Category
Early 20th Century Folk Art Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Wood
"Indonesian Golek Puppet (Male), " Handmade with Carved, Painted Wood and Fabric
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This Golek puppet was made by an unknown Indonesian artist using wood and cloth. It is approximately 24" tall.
Traditional Wayang Golek plays can be comp...
Category
Early 20th Century Folk Art Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Wood
"Indonesian Golek Puppet (Male), " Handmade with Carved, Painted Wood and Fabric
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This Golek puppet was made by an unknown Indonesian artist using wood and cloth. It is approximately 28 1/2" tall.
Traditional Wayang Golek plays can be compared to European and North America: most performances revolve around Kings, Queens, Princes and Princesses who fight against evil, mystical, beings to (usually) end happily.
Three-dimensional Indonesian puppets...
Category
Early 20th Century Folk Art Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Wood
Une silhouette emballée (Madame Choui)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Jean-Robert Drouillard’s practice has its genesis in a background of studies in literature and writing. He is a member of the artist collective la Coop Le Bloc5, an artist-run collec...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Textile
Hindu Sculpture
Located in Rye, NY
Hindu Sculpture is a deeply collaborative work featuring hand-painted imagery by Balinese egg painter I Made Muliana, known for illustrating epic Hindu tales like the Mahabharata and...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Textile, Silk
Do Not Touch
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 2020, this painted resin and steel multiple with accompanying acrylic painting on canvas with original wood crate is signed by Javier Calleja (Spain, 1978 - ) in black ink...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
$18,000 Sale Price
28% Off
Coversation
By Ron Reihel
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A sculpture by Ron Reihel. "Conversation" is an abstract, plaster, wood and canvas sculpture, executed in black by contemporary artist Ron Reihel. "Conversation" depicts a group of t...
Category
1990s Contemporary Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Plaster, Wood
$12,000
Costume - Original Sculpture
Located in AMSTERDAM, NL
John Bizas, a sculptor with an exceptional gift for conveying profound themes through his art, unveils "Costume," a captivating sculpture of a shark, exquisitely shaped from Carrara ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Metal
$15,033 Sale Price
20% Off
Feminist Mixed Media Fabric Sculptural Tapestry - Wonder Woman’s Mobility 718
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Wonder Woman’s Mobility 718 - Feminist Mixed Media Fabric Sculptural Tapestry
Stein began to produce sculptural tapestries in 2011, in which she combines images from he...
Category
2010s Feminist Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$7,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Feminist Mixed Media Fabric Black Sculptural Tapestry- Brave Spirits Merged 807
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Brave Spirits Merged 807 - Feminist Mixed Media Fabric Black Sculptural Tapestry
Stein began to produce sculptural tapestries in 2011, in which she combines images from...
Category
2010s Feminist Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Feminist Mixed Media Fabric Black Sculptural Tapestry - Wonder Woman Escapes 892
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Wonder Woman Escapes 892 - Feminist Mixed Media Fabric Black Sculptural Tapestry
Stein began to produce sculptural tapestries in 2011, in which she combines images from...
Category
2010s Feminist Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Feminist Sculptural Tapestry - 929 Growing Up Female: Jewelry, Guns, Landmines
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Growing Up Female: Jewelry, Guns, Landmines 929 - Feminist Contemporary Sculptural Tapestry
Growing Up Female: Jewelry, Guns, Landmines 929 is from Linda Stein's Sexis...
Category
2010s Feminist Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Fabric, Wood, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$20,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Feminist Contemporary Mixed Media Wall Sculpture, Revisiting Androgyny 934
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Revisiting Androgyny 934 - Feminist Contemporary Mixed Media Wall Sculpture
This work from Linda Stein's Sexism series draws from the tradition of wunderkammer/cabinets...
Category
2010s Feminist Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$28,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Linda Stein, Case 1203 - Contemporary Art Mixed Media Wunderkammer Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Case 1203 - Contemporary Art Mixed Media Wunderkammer Sculpture
This work from Linda Stein's Displacement From Home series draws from the tradition of wunderkammer/cabi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$4,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Feminist Contemporary Fabric Sculptural Wall Tapestry - Noor Inayat Khan 1131
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Noor Inayat Khan 1131 - Feminist Contemporary Fabric Sculptural Wall Tapestry
Noor Inayat Khan 1131 is from Linda Stein's Holocaust Heroes: Fierce Females series, which highlights Holocaust-era female heroes.
Stein began to produce sculptural tapestries in 2013, in which she combines archival images of a subject with her pantheon of female Exemplars--Wonder Woman, Princess Mononoke, Storm, Nausicaa, Kannon, and Lady Gaga--with multiple fabrics and leather. Noor Inayat Khan 1131 features Noor Inayat Khan, a Special Operations Executive agent, who became the first female radio operator to be sent from Britain to aid the French resistance...
Category
2010s Feminist Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$28,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Feminist Contemporary Fabric Leather Sculptural Tapestry - Gloria Steinem 1037
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Gloria Steinem 1037 - Feminist Contemporary Fabric Leather Sculptural Tapestry
Gloria Steinem 1037 is from Linda Stein's Sexism series, wh...
Category
2010s Feminist Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$36,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Feminist Contemporary Mixed Media Sculptural Tapestry -Tango is Egalitarian 974
Located in New York, NY
Linda Stein, Loreen Arbus Says Tango is Egalitarian 974 - Feminist Contemporary Mixed Media Sculptural Tapestry
Loreen Arbus Says Tango is Egalitarian 974 is from Linda Stein's Sexism series, which advocates an expanded perspective of gender constructions--one that includes non-binary views of masculinities and femininities, allowing for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Kindness.
Stein began to produce sculptural tapestries in 2013, in which she combines archival images with multiple fabrics and leather. Loreen Arbus Says Tango is Egalitarian 974 breaks from the view of tango as a traditional gender hierarchy of a woman being led by a man by showing imagery of couples of various identity configurations--male/male, female/female, binary/non-binary, standing/in a wheelchair, mixed race...
Category
2010s Feminist Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
$36,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Centaure (large)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Guillaume Lachapelle’s artistic practice is shaped predominantly by sculpture, expressed in the form of installations and detailed miniature models. Lachapelle presents playful unive...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Nylon
Centaure
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Guillaume Lachapelle’s artistic practice is shaped predominantly by sculpture, expressed in the form of installations and detailed miniature models. Lachapelle presents playful unive...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Nylon
Obsolescence
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Guillaume Lachapelle’s artistic practice is shaped predominantly by sculpture, expressed in the form of installations and detailed miniature models. Lachapelle presents playful unive...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Nylon
Gallon de démesure
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Lamontagne has an interest for the conflicting relationship that exists between the end of the landscape and its contemplation, as well as for the so-called death of painting. The pa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Enfoncer le clou
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Lamontagne has an interest for the conflicting relationship that exists between the end of the landscape and its contemplation, as well as for the so-called death of painting. The pa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Une silhouette emballée (Rosalie)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Jean-Robert Drouillard’s practice has its genesis in a background of studies in literature and writing. He is a member of the artist collective la Coop Le Bloc5, an artist-run collec...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Textile
The City Island VI
Located in New York, NY
Newpaper on canvas 3D-collage set in An Acrylic Box
In the hands of Yeji Moon, ordinary materials are transformed into beautiful and complex collages that powerfully recall childhoo...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Newsprint, Papier Mâché
Price Upon Request
The City Island IV
Located in New York, NY
Newpaper on canvas 3D-collage set in An Acrylic Box
In the hands of Yeji Moon, ordinary materials are transformed into beautiful and complex collages that powerfully recall childhoo...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Newsprint, Papier Mâché
Price Upon Request
Babel 3
Located in New York, NY
Newpaper on canvas 3D-collage set in An Acrylic Box
In the hands of Yeji Moon, ordinary materials are transformed into beautiful and complex collages that powerfully recall childhoo...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Newsprint, Papier Mâché
Price Upon Request
Hippo Hula Hoop Dancer II, maquette
Located in Greenwich, CT
Edition of 9
Bjorn Skaarup Biography
Danish, b. 1973
Bjorn Skaarup holds a MA in History and Art History from the University of Copenhagen, and a PHD in History from the European U...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Hippo Ballerina, en pointe
Located in Greenwich, CT
Bjorn Skaarup Biography
Danish, b. 1973
Bjorn Skaarup holds a MA in History and Art History from the University of Copenhagen, and a PHD in History from the European University Inst...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Hippo Hula Hoop Dancer, maquette
Located in Greenwich, CT
Danish, b. 1973
Bjorn Skaarup holds a MA in History and Art History from the University of Copenhagen, and a PHD in History from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Skaarup has also furthered his education with post-doctoral studies at the Warburg Institute, London and Columbia University, New York
In addition to his career as a self-taught sculptor, Skaarup has written and illustrated numerous books on historical, archaeological, and anatomical subjects.
"My animal sculptures represent a number of characters that have been given man-made and cultural tools and attributes that underline their particular traits – the dignity and supremacy of the majestic lion, the chivalrous nature of the ermine, the speed of the cheetah, the height of the giraffe, and the heavenly aspirations of the ostrich... The sculptures are a celebration of life and nature and its many intriguing shapes and creatures, all placed in peculiar and surreal encounters between nature and culture. The result is a group of bronze sculptures that combines the gracious and exclusive with the communicative, distorted and humorous."
Okholm Skaarup has created a contemporary bestiary, or classical book of animals, in bronze. Each sculpture presents a whimsical story or allegory to decipher, with sources ranging from ancient fables and art history to music and modern animation. The Majestic Lion, traditional king of the animals, wears the crown and armor of a great monarch in the style of Medici court sculptor Giambologna, yet he sits astride a rocking horse, a reference to his fleeting and jovial power. Frogs reenact Homeric battles in the Batrachomyomachia and Micenaean Horse, while mice peer through spectacles and listen at telephones as The Five Senses. A cheetah rides a scooter to move faster, a giraffe stands on stilts to reach higher, and a kangaroo bounces on a pogo stick—a “kængurustylte” in Okholm Skaarup’s native Danish.
From 1994 to 2004, Okholm Skaarup was an artist at the Danish National Museum, Copenhagen, before moving to Florence and receiving a PhD from the European University Institute in 2009. While in Florence, he studied the work of Renaissance sculptors Donatello, Michelangelo, and Giambologna, learning the vanishing art of large-scale bronze casting.
“I am constantly trying to improve my skills in modeling, and see how far the medium can go,” Skaarup explains.
“How many fun details you can add, how many forms you can create—ideally large, heavy forms that rest on light foundations, so the work appears as vibrant as possible. With bronze, you can make the most dynamic shapes imaginable.”
In Okholm Skaarup’s intricately polychrome work, he explores the voluminous form of a tutu and leotard-clad hippo, which at once references Degas’s Little Dancer of Fourteen Years and Disney’s Fantasia...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
Hippo Hula Hoop Dancer
Located in Greenwich, CT
Danish, b. 1973
Bjorn Skaarup holds a MA in History and Art History from the University of Copenhagen, and a PHD in History from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Skaarup has also furthered his education with post-doctoral studies at the Warburg Institute, London and Columbia University, New York
In addition to his career as a self-taught sculptor, Skaarup has written and illustrated numerous books on historical, archaeological, and anatomical subjects.
"My animal sculptures represent a number of characters that have been given man-made and cultural tools and attributes that underline their particular traits – the dignity and supremacy of the majestic lion, the chivalrous nature of the ermine, the speed of the cheetah, the height of the giraffe, and the heavenly aspirations of the ostrich... The sculptures are a celebration of life and nature and its many intriguing shapes and creatures, all placed in peculiar and surreal encounters between nature and culture. The result is a group of bronze sculptures that combines the gracious and exclusive with the communicative, distorted and humorous."
Okholm Skaarup has created a contemporary bestiary, or classical book of animals, in bronze. Each sculpture presents a whimsical story or allegory to decipher, with sources ranging from ancient fables and art history to music and modern animation. The Majestic Lion, traditional king of the animals, wears the crown and armor of a great monarch in the style of Medici court sculptor Giambologna, yet he sits astride a rocking horse, a reference to his fleeting and jovial power. Frogs reenact Homeric battles in the Batrachomyomachia and Micenaean Horse, while mice peer through spectacles and listen at telephones as The Five Senses. A cheetah rides a scooter to move faster, a giraffe stands on stilts to reach higher, and a kangaroo bounces on a pogo stick—a “kængurustylte” in Okholm Skaarup’s native Danish.
From 1994 to 2004, Okholm Skaarup was an artist at the Danish National Museum, Copenhagen, before moving to Florence and receiving a PhD from the European University Institute in 2009. While in Florence, he studied the work of Renaissance sculptors Donatello, Michelangelo, and Giambologna, learning the vanishing art of large-scale bronze casting.
“I am constantly trying to improve my skills in modeling, and see how far the medium can go,” Skaarup explains.
“How many fun details you can add, how many forms you can create—ideally large, heavy forms that rest on light foundations, so the work appears as vibrant as possible. With bronze, you can make the most dynamic shapes imaginable.”
In Okholm Skaarup’s intricately polychrome work, he explores the voluminous form of a tutu and leotard-clad hippo, which at once references Degas’s Little Dancer of Fourteen Years and Disney’s Fantasia...
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2010s Contemporary Fabric Figurative Sculptures
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Bronze
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Hippo Circus Ribbon Dancer II, maquette
Located in Greenwich, CT
Danish, b. 1973
Bjorn Skaarup holds a MA in History and Art History from the University of Copenhagen, and a PHD in History from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy...
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2010s Contemporary Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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Breath
Located in New Orleans, LA
Thierry Job was born in Marseille, France and currently lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He studied art at the School of Beaux Arts in Paris. His works as been exhibited at th...
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2010s Contemporary Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
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Hippo Ballerina, en pointe II
Located in Greenwich, CT
Edition of 9
Bjorn Okholm Skaarup, Danish, b. 1973
Bjorn Skaarup holds a MA in History and Art History from the University of Copenhagen, and a PHD in History from the European Uni...
Category
2010s Contemporary Fabric Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Price Upon Request
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