Carl Andre

Carl Andre born Sept 16 1935 is an American minimalist artist recognized both for his ordered linear format and grid format sculptures and for being tried and acquitted for murdering his wife, artist Ana Mendieta. His sculptures range from large public works to more intimate tile patterns arranged on the floor of an exhibition space. IN 1969 he helped organize the Art Workers Coalition. He has had many one man exhibition and museums and galleries all throughout America and Europe.

ALCLOUD (2007)

144 aluminum cubes randomly arrayed on the floor

10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm each

Equivalent VIII (1966)


Firebricks 
12.7x68.6x229.2cm

144 MAGNESIUM SQUARES (1969).

10 x 3658 x 3658 mm

Richard Deacon

Richard Deacon was born on August 15th, 1949 in Bangor, Wales. He studied at Somerset College of Art, Taunton (1968), St Martin’s School of Art, London (1970-73) and the Royal College of Art (1974-77) where he gained an MA in Environmental Media.Deacon’s work is abstract, but often alludes to anatomical functions. His works are often constructed from everyday materials such as laminated plywood, and he calls himself a “fabricator” rather than a “sculptor”. His early pieces are typically made up of sleek curved forms, with later works sometimes more bulky.

Kiss and Tell

 1989, epoxy, timber, plywood, & steel

 175 x 233 x 162 cm

Time after Time

 1992-1995, Stainless steel

 h: 3 x w: 142.5 x d: 222 cm

Read Sea Crossing

 2003, Oak and stainless steel in two parts

 163 x 345 x 320 cm and 204 x 520 x 390 cm

Sheila Vollmer was born in Canada and made London her home in 1987 after a post graduate in Sculpture at St Martin's School of Art. In Canada she completed a BA in Visual Art at the University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, 1985. Her sculptural work is primarily with geometric shapes in the abstract. Her work brings references to the architectural, spiritual, and constructed world. The materials and processes that she works with have never stayed the same. She switches between many different materials but is currently with Steel and Casting. “Architecture is also an influence particularly for the poetry and symbolism of spaces and the shared human experience our physical and emotional selves have to the spaces around us. My aim is to stay true to the material I am working with, while creating an image with a breath and meaning of its own.”

WELL II, 2000

200 x 300cm

Glass blocks & silicone sealant set on mirror polished stainless steel

STRETCHED I WITH BOX, 2000

450 x 450 x 600cm Box: 60cm sq.

Dexion steel, polypropylene rope & steel eyelet fixings 2000

COCOON LINE, 2008-09

92cm wide x 100cm high x 190cm deep

Galvanized & painted steel

Bill Woodrow

Bill Woodrow was born near Henley, Oxford shire, in 1948. He studied at Winchester College of Art (1967-68), St Martin's School of Art (1968-71) and Chelsea School of Art (1971-72).Woodrow's earlier works are made from materials he finds in dumps, used car lots and scrap yards, Many of his pieces contain partially embedded in plaster and appear to have been excavated. “He went on to use large consumer goods, such as refrigerators and cars, cutting the sheet metal and allowing the original structure to remain identifiable, with the cut-out attached as if by an umbilical cord to the mother form.” Woodrow Collects all kinds of things and then alters them and giving them a new context. He continued to work with these until the 1990’s when he began to make work in bronze.

In Case Of, 1990

Glass, plastic, coins, wax, water, wood, paint

85 x 70 x 51 cm

EIGHT BICYCLE FRAMES, 1980

Bicycle frames

450 x 830 x 20 cm

WELL DONE!, 1987

Steel frying pan, copper funnel, tea chest, enamel and acrylic paint

106 x 67 x 45 cm

Franz West

Franz West lives and works in Vienna, where he was born in 1947. West began his career in mid-1960s Vienna when a local movement called Actionism was in full swing. West's earliest sculptures, performances, and collages were a reaction to this movement, in which artists engaged in displays of radical public behavior and physical endurance meant to shake up art-world passivity. In the early 1970s, West began making a series of small, portable sculptures called "Adaptives" ("Paßtücke"), awkward-looking plaster objects that were only completed as artworks when the viewer picked them up and carried them around, or performed some other inherently slapstick action with them. In many ways, his large-scale aluminum sculptures are simply overgrown versions of the "Adaptives." But they also relate directly to his installations, where west makes furniture. West has the ability to make comfortable and colorfully upholstered couches and chairs which transform galleries, museums, and public spaces into lounge-like, sociable environments for viewing art.

Viennoiserie

1998

Mixed- Media

Pink intestinal knot, Drama

1999.

Room-Size

Levits, 2001-2006

Epoxy resin and metal

Each: 34 1/2 x 18 x 22 in. (87.6 x 45.7 x 55.9 cm)

Olaf Metzel

Olaf Metzel uses provocation as mental impetus for his art. The clash of cultures on city streets can generate anger, prejudice and strong feelings which Olaf Metzel deliberately provokes in his politically charged works. Metzel often creates his sculptures from scrap iron, like in the Randale Monument in Berlin or discarded football stadium seats in good-bye in Nuremberg. In both cases the sculptures led to substantial protests against the artworks in their respective cities.

  Metzel was born in Berlin and lives and works in Munich. He has participated in 1987 Documenta 8, Kassel, Sculpture Project Munster, 1997, the 2008 Brussels Biennial, Contemporary Art in the City and in Art of Two Germanys / Cold War Cultures at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art 2009, as well as numerous solo exhibitions worldwide.

One of the three art work pieces explained; "Art in public spaces can serve as a stimulus to reflection. Today, the image of the bridge appears clichéd and scarcely usage as a symbol of the Goethe Institute's contribution to cultural dialogue. But what is the significance of a staircase, a spiral staircase - the spiral staircase? The staircase leads nowhere and relates only to its own centre; its circular movement always leads back to the same point, in an endless vortex of digression which finally unmasks the very idea of forward motion as an illusion." (Prof. Dr. Hilmar Hoffmann, former President of the Goethe-Instituts)

Freitreppe 1994

17.5 x 23.5 cm

Cashflow 2005

Graffiti 

2008, Aluminum

h: 120 x w: 340 x d: 70 cm / h: 47.2 x w: 133.9 x d: 27.6 in

Robert Gober

Robert Gober is an American sculptor, who was born in Connecticut, September 12, 1954. He studied at Middlebury College, Vermont and the Tyler School of Art in Rome. He lives and works in New York City and is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery. He is best known for his sculptures, but also has made photographs, prints, and drawings and has curated exhibitions, most recently “Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield” at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in 2009 (which will travel to the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York in 2010). He has had exhibitions of his work in Europe, North America and Japan. One of his most well known series of works was of sculptures of sinks He has made many sculptures of everyday objects, showing familiar things as well as strange ones.

His work is often related to domestic and familiar objects such as sinks, doors, and legs, and has themes of nature, sexuality, religion and politics. The sculptures are meticulously handcrafted, even when they appear to just be a re-creation of a common sink.

Untitled (Leg),
1989-90
beeswax, cotton, wood, leather and human hair

Untitled,

1994-95

Wood, bronze, paint, and handmade paper

61 x 180.3 x 186.7 cm (24 x 71 x 73 1/2 in.)

Untitled

1989–96

Silk satin, muslin, linen, tulle, welded steel, hand-printed silkscreen on paper, cast hydrostone plaster, vinyl acrylic paint, ink, and graphite
Approximately 800 square feet, installed.