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I'll know more on Friday about the direction of the show but I do know that we are looking for large scale outdoor sculpture for a two year show. The work will be located along the river front and up the Lake Huron Coastline. The size of th…
I'm curating a large scale sculpture exhibit in Ontario, if you know of interested sculptors please have them contact me at
www.sauveartfoundation.org
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John
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- Sculptor, Writer and Producer of WWW.SAUVEARTFOUNDATION.ORG
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- Nearly every empire worthy of the name—from ancient Rome to the United States—has sought an Egyptian obelisk to place in the center of a ceremonial space. Obelisks—giant standing stones, invented in Ancient Egypt as sacred objects—serve no practical purpose. For much of their history their inscriptions, in Egyptian hieroglyphics, were completely inscrutable. Yet over the centuries dozens of obelisks have made the voyage from Egypt to Rome, Constantinople, and Florence; to Paris, London, and New York. New obelisks and even obelisk-shaped buildings rose as well—the Washington Monument being a noted example. Obelisks, everyone seems to sense, connote some very special sort of power. This beautifully illustrated book traces the fate and many meanings of obelisks across nearly forty centuries—what they meant to the Egyptians, and how other cultures have borrowed, interpreted, understood, and misunderstood them through the years.
In each culture obelisks have taken on new meanings and associations. To the Egyptians, the obelisk was the symbol of a pharaoh’s right to rule and connection to the divine. In ancient Rome, obelisks were the embodiment of Rome's coming of age as an empire. To nineteenth-century New Yorkers, the obelisk in Central Park stood for their country’s rejection of the trappings of empire just as it was itself beginning to acquire imperial power. And to a twentieth-century reader of Freud, the obelisk had anatomical and psychological connotations.
The history of obelisks is a story of technical achievement, imperial conquest, Christian piety and triumphalism, egotism, scholarly brilliance, political hubris, bigoted nationalism, democratic self-assurance, Modernist austerity, and Hollywood kitsch—in short, the story of Western civilization.
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- At 5:29am on February 26, 2010,
kara cardinale said…
- another artist is the british mixed media artist Stephen Farley. He does these giant rectangular resin pieces that are incredibly artificial but intricate of texture and he places them in interesting situations like on moors or along cliff edges. You can see his work here as well.
- At 5:24am on February 26, 2010,
kara cardinale said…
- adrienne jalbert does these wonderful wire balls. She had one installation of hanging balls outside a cathedral and another on lawns at a country estate. I think they're really interesting. Sydney and I were checking them out just yesterday. She only has two photos of theinstallations on the site here but she has promised to put some more on. Why not take a look and then I'll ask her if I can introduce you. Thought its better to see if you're interested in the work first before I approach the artist.
- At 6:19am on February 24, 2010,
kara cardinale said…
- these extra pieces are wonderful - I think we have two sculptors that come to mind that might work for your exhibition - just let me ask them and then I'll get back to you
- At 3:57pm on January 16, 2010,
Anna Fabiani said… - Grazie John, buona serata
- At 12:52pm on January 16, 2010,
Ingrid Stiehler said… - Hi John,
thanks for your friendship - I really appreciate it! Your sculptures are extraordinary - well done...
Many Greetings from Germany,
Ingrid
- At 11:44am on January 16, 2010,
Philip Letts said…
- John, welcome to b-uncut - the network for artists by artists. We look forward to seeing you load more and rate artworks, post blogs, join Forum discussions and more. Read the 'Notes' (right column - home page) for tips on using the site.
Dive in and enjoy.
And don't let anything stop you expressing your art.
- At 9:51am on January 16, 2010,
Secondnature said… - Hello
welcome to b-uncut! I really like your work
regards
ian
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