![]() ![]() ![]() Influenced by the influx of Surrealist artists to the US during and after World War II, Bourgeois composed her early sculp- tures by grouping together abstract and organic shapes, often carved from wood. She emi- grated to the US in 1938 after marrying the American art historian Robert Goldwater. 1911, Paris) studied at various schools, including the École du Louvre, Académie des Beaux-Arts, Académie Julian and also at Fernand Léger’s atelier. Giovanni Anselmo has stood the test of time, and his sculptural work has pushed the bound- aries of art for more than three decades. A wide range of organic and inorganic materials including vegetables, water, electricity, granite, iron and plastic are brought together in combinations that strikingly demonstrate these forces.Īfter working as a painter from 1959 to 1964, he turned to conceptual art in 1965 and by 1968 was asso- ciated with the emergence of ARTE POVERA, of which he became one of the strictest and most coherent exponents. This epiphany was to inspire his many works investigating the finite and the infinite, the microcosm and the macrocosm, and the elemental laws and forces of nature – gravity, tension, magnetism and energy. It was while walking on Mount Stromboli at dawn in 1965 that he was suddenly struck by the realisation that he was merely a tiny detail in the vast continuum of universal energy. 1934, Borgofranco d’Ivrea), divides his time between Turin and the volcanic island of Stromboli. The experience of nature is transcended by the sculpture with which it is related. ‘Sculpture in Nature, Nature of Sculpture’: the exhibition brings the essence of both together. ![]() Giovanni Anselmo, Xu Bing, Louise Bourgeois, Anish Kapoor, Not Vital, Zhan Wang and Franz West have each been invited to install a sculpture in the polder landscape. The exhibition presents sculptures from internationally well-known artists in dialogue with an exceptional surrounding, the site of the foundation ‘De 11 Lijnen’ in Oudenburg. At the occasion of the Triennial Beaufort 2009, ‘De 11 Lijnen’ is pleased to announce an open-air exhibition, complementary to the exhibition organized at the Belgian coast by the Kunstmuseum aan Zee, Ostend. ![]()
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