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Thursday, 19 September 2013

Art History: Yorkshire Sculpture Park


Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Lucy and Jorge Orta

What materials is their work made out of?
Their sculpture work is created using materials such as aluminium and Bronze on their Ubelka piece and then painted using epoxy paint and enamel on their Ubelka piece again. For some of their sculpture art they use found recyclable objects such as plastic bottles, an example of this are their clouds pieces.

What is the scale of their work?
Their sculpture pieces are usually created on a large scale, their Spirits of Huveaune pieces are around 200cm to 250cm high and their other sculpture pieces are usually scaled around the same dimensions

In what context do they display their work?
Their work is displayed both indoors and outdoors. Their spirit pieces are permanently placed at the sculpture park to interact with the surroundings like the sculpture placed in the lake for example as it provides the right setting for the piece. Some of their other pieces such as their clouds are placed in exhibitions to be viewed with other pieces of art.

What are they inspired by / what influences their work?
Their pieces are largely influenced by social situations and ecological issues. They focus their work on tackling problems in the world and they travel to regions of the world stricken with issues to draw influence into their work.

What are the main ideas / concepts behind their work?
Some of the common themes I have seen in their work are elements of fantasy and myth gathered from their Spirit pieces and their clouds containing concepts of magic carpets. They combine these ideas with the world issues and the things they have seen and gathered from those issues.

 

Josephsohn

What materials is their work made out of?
Josephsohn’s sculptures are created using plaster and bronze

What is the scale of their work?
Josephsohn’s scales of sculpture range, his half figures are very large pieces up to 80cm high whereas his smaller sculptures are around 20 cm high.

In what context do they display their work?
Josephsohn mainly displays his work in indoor exhibitions however at the sculpture park, his work is displayed out in the gardens as due to the texture it fits in like a natural form.

What are they inspired by / what influences their work?
His sculptures are inspired by particular people or features from portraits

What are the main ideas / concepts behind their work?
Josephson’s style is focused on capturing intimacy, experience and presence of the human form through sculpture.

 

 

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