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Conceptual Sculptures

CONCEPTUAL STYLE

In 1967, artist Sol LeWitt wrote that in “Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.” He was giving a name to an art movement that had emerged in the 1960s in which artists were less focused on their medium being something traditionally “artistic” and instead engaged in using any object, movement, form, action or place to express an idea.

LeWitt’s work was featured alongside an assemblage of notes, drawings and outlines by other artists in “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art,” a groundbreaking show at New York City’s School of Visual Arts curated by Mel Bochner, another leading exponent of Conceptualism. Building on radical 20th-century statements, like Fountain (1917) by French artist Marcel Duchamp, Conceptual artists around Europe and North and South America were not interested in the commercial art scene and rather directly challenged its systems and values.

Stretching into the 1970s, this movement has also been called Post-Object art and Dematerialized art. Conceptual art reflected a larger era of social and political upheaval. Pieces associated with the style range from Roelof Louw’s Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) (1967) — a work of installation art that sees fresh oranges stacked into a pyramid from which visitors are allowed to take one orange away — to On Kawara’s “Today” series, which saw the Japanese artist carefully painting a date in white acrylic on canvases consisting of a single color from 1966 to his death in 2014. Artists such as Ed Ruscha, who created the Twentysix Gasoline Stations book — a collection of photos of gas stations that is widely said to be the first modern artists’ book — made photography a major platform for Conceptual art, as did Bruce Nauman, who burned one of Ruscha's books and then photographed it for his own.

Conceptual art’s legacy of questioning artistic authorship, ownership and how to work with complex ideas of space and time had a significant influence on the decades of culture that followed, and it continues to inform art today.

The collection of Conceptual photography, paintings and sculptures on 1stDibs includes artworks by John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth and others.

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Style: Conceptual
Sandía con interior rojo, blanco y negro
Sandía con interior rojo, blanco y negro

Sandía con interior rojo, blanco y negro

By Eduardo Costa

Located in Mexico City, CDMX

Eduardo Costa is one of the key figures in global conceptual art. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1940. He graduated in Literature and Art at the University of Buenos Aires in 1965 where he took courses with Jorge Luis Borges in the late fifties. His practice developed into Conceptual POP with the Fashion Fictions Series, 1966-to the present. He is also credited with creating Conceptual Geometry which he showed internationally starting in 1995 at the Elga Wimmer Gallery, NY, and in 2001 at Cecilia de Torres LTD., NY. With Cecilia de Torres he exhibited a fully developed edition of his Volumetric Paintings, which use painting to such a volume that it stands by itself without any cloth or other support.Eduardo Costa lived twenty-five years in New York and over four years in Rio de Janeiro where he met almost daily with Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape...

Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Acrylic

Naturaleza muerta con botella
Naturaleza muerta con botella

Naturaleza muerta con botella

By Eduardo Costa

Located in Mexico City, CDMX

Eduardo Costa is one of the key figures in global conceptual art. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1940. He graduated in Literature and Art at the University of Buenos Aires in 1965 where he took courses with Jorge Luis Borges in the late fifties. His practice developed into Conceptual POP with the Fashion Fictions Series, 1966-to the present. He is also credited with creating Conceptual Geometry which he showed internationally starting in 1995 at the Elga Wimmer Gallery, NY, and in 2001 at Cecilia de Torres LTD., NY. With Cecilia de Torres he exhibited a fully developed edition of his Volumetric Paintings, which use painting to such a volume that it stands by itself without any cloth or other support.Eduardo Costa lived twenty-five years in New York and over four years in Rio de Janeiro where he met almost daily with Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape...

Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Acrylic

Diversity (Red)

Diversity (Red)

By Oleg Lobykin

Located in Napa, CA

Oleg Lobykin (Russian, b. 1966) is a sculptor. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Lobykin now resides in Silicon Valley and also specializes in the restoration of landmark architecture ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Fiberglass

Limpopo, 2021
Limpopo, 2021

Michael DavisLimpopo, 2021, 2021

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Limpopo, 2021

By Michael Davis

Located in Palm Desert, CA

Style: Contemporary, Modern, Conceptual Small study for the series “Rare Earth"

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Illumination, 2018 LED Sculpture

Illumination, 2018 LED Sculpture

Located in Brooklyn, NY

JORGE WELLESELEY From the series: Subterfuges, ”Illumination”, 2018 Aluminum, LED, plexiglass, PLA, concrete 15.5 x 23.5 x 12 in Ed: 2/3 + 1AP Jorge Wellesley (Havana, 1979) Cuban...

Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Concrete, Metal

The Terminator - Original Lego Work of Art
The Terminator - Original Lego Work of Art

The Terminator - Original Lego Work of Art

Located in New York, NY

Figurative, portrait art - The Terminator - Arnold Schwarzenegger. Made completely of legos. About the Artist: Joseph Kraham is an "engineering art...

Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

Empty Words, Sculpture
Empty Words, Sculpture

Empty Words, Sculpture

Located in Brooklyn, NY

JORGE WELLESELEY, Empty Words, 2009 Rusted steel, concrete Sculpture 17.5 x 18 x 12 in Jorge Wellesley (Havana, 1979) Cuban-born artist based in Guttenberg, New Jersey. He received...

Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Concrete, Steel

Spiderman - Lego Original
Spiderman - Lego Original

Spiderman - Lego Original

Located in New York, NY

Spiderman. Made completely of legos. About the Artist: Joseph Kraham is an "engineering artist". He combines thousands of Lego pieces, acrylic lac...

Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

Japanese Contemporary Art By Kojun - Shiko 11
Japanese Contemporary Art By Kojun - Shiko 11

Japanese Contemporary Art By Kojun - Shiko 11

By Kojun

Located in Paris, IDF

Lego, gold leaf (24k, 22.66k), copper wire, wood This collaborative work, which began with a common interest in Buddhism, explored the idea of expressing the sacred within everyday life. As artist and Zen monk...

Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Wire, Gold Leaf

Japanese Contemporary Art By Kojun - Shiko 3
Japanese Contemporary Art By Kojun - Shiko 3

Japanese Contemporary Art By Kojun - Shiko 3

By Kojun

Located in Paris, IDF

Lego, bayberry wood, copper wire, cashew lacquer, gold leaf This collaborative work, which began with a common interest in Buddhism, explored the idea of expressing the sacred within everyday life. As artist and Zen monk...

Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Gold Leaf

Japanese Contemporary Art By Kojun - Shiko 1
Japanese Contemporary Art By Kojun - Shiko 1

Japanese Contemporary Art By Kojun - Shiko 1

By Kojun

Located in Paris, IDF

Lego, bayberry wood, discarded wood, copper wire, cashew lacquer, gold leaf, dried leaves This collaborative work, which began with a common interest in Buddhism, explored the idea of expressing the sacred within everyday life. As artist and Zen monk...

Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Plastic, Driftwood, Wood, Lacquer

Japanese Contemporary Art By Kojun - Ku
Japanese Contemporary Art By Kojun - Ku

Japanese Contemporary Art By Kojun - Ku

By Kojun

Located in Paris, IDF

Lego, discarded wood, gilder’s bole This work was created for an exhibit as part of the artistic unit SHIKŌ, a collaborative effort between sculptors Kanji Hasegawa, Isaji Yugo, and...

Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Plastic, Driftwood

EDOUARD MERZOUK - Chanel Fossil Bag
EDOUARD MERZOUK - Chanel Fossil Bag

EDOUARD MERZOUK - Chanel Fossil Bag

By Edouard Merzouk

Located in PARIS, FR

Chanel unique fossil scupture part of the ''Collapse'' collection : About Collapse: Ecological peril and social emergency may not be fantasies. What if our civilization collapses t...

Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Cast Stone

"Untitled Environment" 3d printed
"Untitled Environment" 3d printed

"Untitled Environment" 3d printed

By Robert Roesch

Located in Southampton, NY

In a statement Roesch says: "The spires describe my journey on the planet. I have placed spires in rows, in star patterns, and in random placement. The spires in Random placement are...

Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Plexiglass, Mixed Media

Sculpture Victorian Shoe: 'Chopine III'
Sculpture Victorian Shoe: 'Chopine III'

Sculpture Victorian Shoe: 'Chopine III'

By Kelly Bugden + Van Wifvat

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 Sculptures

Materials

Gesso, Canvas

Abstract Pillow Sculpture: 'Untitiled'
Abstract Pillow Sculpture: 'Untitiled'

Abstract Pillow Sculpture: 'Untitiled'

By Kelly Bugden + Van Wifvat

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 Sculptures

Materials

Linen, Wood, Glue

Habitáculos 1

Habitáculos 1

Located in PARIS, FR

Giselle Borrás is a Colombian born artist who has lived and worked in Colombia, Spain and the United States of America. She has had several group and solo shows, and her work can be found in private collections across the United States and Colombia. She studied painting, drawing and color theory with several artists in Colombia and then continued her development in Madrid, Spain at The Fuencarral Studio. For the past twelve years she has been committed to her artistic work drawing inspiration from her continuous admiration for the human body. The end results of her work are these subtle and weightless figures, created from maintaining the painting process spontaneous, filled with innocence and yet providing the viewer much force, energy and presence. Her colors remain consistent, always vibrant and bold, and the painting is finished when the idea has become a complete discussion. Art is a language spoken with fluency by this up and coming artist...

Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

Promises
Promises

Promises

By Barry Wolfryd

Located in Mexico City, CDMX

#murano #glass Barry Wolfryd (1952) Barry Wolfryd, born in Los Angeles and a naturalized Mexican, has spent most of his artistic career in Mexico, where he has lived for the past 35 ...

Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Ceramic

Bicromo blando blanco y negro en diagonal
Bicromo blando blanco y negro en diagonal

Bicromo blando blanco y negro en diagonal

By Eduardo Costa

Located in Mexico City, CDMX

Eduardo Costa is one of the key figures in global conceptual art. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1940. He graduated in Literature and Art at the University of Buenos Aires in 1965 where he took courses with Jorge Luis Borges in the late fifties. His practice developed into Conceptual POP with the Fashion Fictions Series, 1966-to the present. He is also credited with creating Conceptual Geometry which he showed internationally starting in 1995 at the Elga Wimmer Gallery, NY, and in 2001 at Cecilia de Torres LTD., NY. With Cecilia de Torres he exhibited a fully developed edition of his Volumetric Paintings, which use painting to such a volume that it stands by itself without any cloth or other support.Eduardo Costa lived twenty-five years in New York and over four years in Rio de Janeiro where he met almost daily with Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape...

Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Acrylic

Monocromo rojo quemado
Monocromo rojo quemado

Monocromo rojo quemado

By Eduardo Costa

Located in Mexico City, CDMX

Eduardo Costa is one of the key figures in global conceptual art. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1940. He graduated in Literature and Art at the University of Buenos Aires in 1965 where he took courses with Jorge Luis Borges in the late fifties. His practice developed into Conceptual POP with the Fashion Fictions Series, 1966-to the present. He is also credited with creating Conceptual Geometry which he showed internationally starting in 1995 at the Elga Wimmer Gallery, NY, and in 2001 at Cecilia de Torres LTD., NY. With Cecilia de Torres he exhibited a fully developed edition of his Volumetric Paintings, which use painting to such a volume that it stands by itself without any cloth or other support.Eduardo Costa lived twenty-five years in New York and over four years in Rio de Janeiro where he met almost daily with Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape...

Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Acrylic

Shaping the Essence, Aluminum Sculpture
Shaping the Essence, Aluminum Sculpture

Shaping the Essence, Aluminum Sculpture

Located in Brooklyn, NY

JORGE WELLESELEY "Shaping the Essence", 2019 Aluminum, concrete, LED 13.25 x 10 x 10 in Ed: 1/3 + 1AP Jorge Wellesley (Havana, 1979) Cuban-born artist based in Guttenberg, New Je...

Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Concrete, Metal

The Weight of Man in Olympus
The Weight of Man in Olympus

The Weight of Man in Olympus

By Mattia Novello

Located in Rye, NY

This sculpture represents the idea of human balance in infinity. The symbol of construction while balancing a feather, symbol of freedom and lightness.

Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Plaster, Found Objects, Mixed Media

Katherine Jackson, Little Oil Seeing Red, 2020, Glass Wood Steel, Plexi, LED
Katherine Jackson, Little Oil Seeing Red, 2020, Glass Wood Steel, Plexi, LED

Katherine Jackson, Little Oil Seeing Red, 2020, Glass Wood Steel, Plexi, LED

By Katherine Jackson

Located in Darien, CT

There are two Little Oil installations available with 6 sculptures each on top of LED light boxes. Katherine Jackson has been working with glass and light together for many years, Recently, she's been making glass castings of vintage oil cans, and displaying them -- singly, in small groupings, or in vitrines -- on light boxes. So far she has created about 90, each one unique. The series is called Little Oil, alluding to Big Oil, and sometimes Small Oils, as in oil painting. But “oil” can mean many things. It has been a source of light (sometimes from unconscionable sources) since ancient times as well as a source of eternal light in many faith traditions. Set atop lightboxes, where each work glows from within, these pieces can simply seem like vessels of light itself. At times, they appear to me to transcend their relation to oil altogether, appearing anthropomorphic or creaturely, even biological. These days, I think of them as archeological artifacts, relics of a past, oil-based, civilization. Necropolis is a print of a painting inspired by a map of the necropolis where the terra cotta soldiers...

Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Glass, LED Light, Pigment

Katherine Jackson, Little Oil  Seeing Red, 2020, Glass Wood Steel, Plexi, LED
Katherine Jackson, Little Oil  Seeing Red, 2020, Glass Wood Steel, Plexi, LED

Katherine Jackson, Little Oil Seeing Red, 2020, Glass Wood Steel, Plexi, LED

By Katherine Jackson

Located in Darien, CT

There are two Little Oil installations available with 6 sculptures each on top of LED light boxes. Two of the oil can sculptures depicted here are sold. Please contact the gallery for specific prices on individual prices and smaller light boxes sold with the sculptures. Prices range from $675 - $2050 including a small lightbox for individual sculptures. Katherine Jackson has been working with glass and light together for many years, Recently, she's been making glass castings of vintage oil cans, and displaying them -- singly, in small groupings, or in vitrines -- on light boxes. So far she has created about 90, each one unique. The series is called Little Oil, alluding to Big Oil, and sometimes Small Oils, as in oil painting. But “oil” can mean many things. It has been a source of light (sometimes from unconscionable sources) since ancient times as well as a source of eternal light in many faith traditions. Set atop lightboxes, where each work glows from within, these pieces can simply seem like vessels of light itself. At times, they appear to me to transcend their relation to oil altogether, appearing anthropomorphic or creaturely, even biological. These days, I think of them as archeological artifacts, relics of a past, oil-based, civilization. Necropolis is a print of a painting inspired by a map of the necropolis where the terra cotta soldiers...

Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Glass, LED Light, Pigment

'Caresses From Olympus' Mixed Media, Conceptual Life Size, Figurative Sculpture
'Caresses From Olympus' Mixed Media, Conceptual Life Size, Figurative Sculpture

'Caresses From Olympus' Mixed Media, Conceptual Life Size, Figurative Sculpture

By Mattia Novello

Located in Rye, NY

With ‘Caresses From Olympus’ Mattia explores the journey that man takes every day to discover himself. In an era where migrants are at the center of humanity this sculpture tries to ...

Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Plaster, Found Objects, Mixed Media

Meditation Man
Meditation Man

Meditation Man

By Mattia Novello

Located in Rye, NY

The "Meditation Man," in his yoga pose, is in total concentration. His plumaged eyes could be interpreted as life's struggles as he continues to maintain his maximum mental focus. ...

Category

2010s Conceptual Sculptures

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Polyurethane

Conceptual sculptures for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Conceptual sculptures available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add sculptures created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, red, orange, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Beatrice De Domenico, Scott Froschauer, Jo Yarrington, and Kojun. Frequently made by artists working with Metal, and mixed media and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Conceptual sculptures, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available. Prices for sculptures made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $125 and tops out at $500,000, while the average work sells for $3,220.