Bianca Lee Vasquez

Irby Pace

This isn't really sculpture but proves my point about the importance of the camera in this type of art. Without it Pace couldn't create these impressive pieces of work.

Idle Voids - Pop! project

Linda Gordon

Linda makes outdoor work mostly out of natural material like leaves, stones, shells and so on.

Early Sculpture

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Saint Mark by Donatello, made in the early 1400's out of marble.

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Parvati 11th century, copper alloy

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17th/18th century carved ivory.

Early Ephemeral Sculpture

Lindsey Allgood

Lindsey Allgood uses a very odd collection of material to make her sculptures, including pubic hair, eggshell and menstrual blood.

The ephemeral aspect of her work seems to be mostly about deterioration and things rotting. She also uses dead insects in some pieces. 

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Allgood views the body as a material and site and practices her process with her experience as a female. She likes to materials that are symbolic that are often organic and fragile. She also takes part in her own performances

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Presentation Plan

Introduction -  definition of Ephemeral
                        definition of Sculpture


What sculpture used to be made of.
Did they create ephemeral sculpture?
How would we know if they did?
So what is the point?


Several slides of ephemeral sculpture...
brief explanation of the artist and the material.


Mention of the easy access to camera and film and how actually nothing has to be totally ephemeral anymore as there can always be documentation of it.
Also mention that in fact its more spectacular that the physical form of the artwork doesn't last because it is limited, more valuable. Like one off masterpieces etc.

Mathilde Roussel

Official Site

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The idea behind this project was to represent the human body and how it transforms over time and then inevitably decays. They also draw our attention to famine and the need of soil.

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Ephemeral Sculpture

Ephemeral - lasting for a very short time
Sculpture - the art of making two- or three-dimensional representative or abstract forms, especially by carving stone or wood or by casting metal or plaster.

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Sand, Snow, Ice, Pumpkins

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Ephemeral Environmental Sculpture

Lindsey Allgood

Kara Walker

Elaine Clocherty

Linda Gordon

Use of Ephemeral Material

Gavin Turk

Irby Pace

David Nash

Michel Francois

Maria Roosen

Incredible Things

Incredible Things

Modern Sculptors

Top 10 Sculptors now

Damian Ortega - uses a wide variety ever day objects 
Heart of Darkness

Tyres

Submarine and Salt

He uses items like salt to reflect the drug trafficking in Mexico, which is where he is from.

Tortilla Chips

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Sweetcorn

Wood and steel Knives

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Antony Gormley

Is interested in the body and places his sculpture mostly outdoors rather than in a gallery.

Most famously Angel of the North

Lynda Benglis

Is a minimalist/feminist artist who has influences from expressionism

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Sculpture 1975-1985

1975 

Gilbert & George are inveterate collectors of images and, over the years, they have bought thousands of postcards, ranging from the gaudy and sexual to more sedate views of sunsets or landscapes. In the Postcard Sculptures, they arrange a selection of these ‘found’ images into small and intimate designs or vast grids. Through repetition, recognisable forms and faces become like abstract motifs in the pattern of a carpet. Fields of colour create a near-hypnotic effect. The artists regard these as ‘sketches’ rather than fully-fledged pictures. However, they have noted that many of the themes in their pictures first surfaced in Postcard Sculptures.

The vitrines in this room contain RED BOXERS from 1975 and THE REDSCULPTURE ALBUM from 1976. RED BOXERS was a postal sculpture in eight parts, which was sent out one part at a time over eight weeks. It is possible to trace the artists’ use of multiple print techniques, using the photographic image as a raw material that goes through layers of transformation until it ends up resembling an artisanal hand-made object. THE RED SCULPTURE was a live piece that the artists first presented in Tokyo, which the ALBUM transposes into book form. They appeared with their faces and hands painted red, moving almost robotically and assuming poses related to those in earlier groups of pictures like BLOODY LIFEand DUSTY CORNERS.

"Entraga Bronze Sculpture- Victor Salmones

Salvador Dali

1976

Raul Guerrero

Woman Gazing Vacuuform Plastic Sculpture 1976"

1976

George Segal

http://bellaverstudios.com/category/1975-1985/