Phyllida Barlow

untitled: hostage; 2022, 2022Price on Request

Details

Material

steel, polystyrene, wadding, felt, wool, painted fabric, cord

Description

Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This contemporary art piece features a sculptural form composed of various materials. The dominant colors are black, red, and beige, creating a striking visual contrast. The shapeshifting form appears to be wrapped or draped in a black fabric, revealing a vibrant red core. The surface texture combines smooth and rough elements, with the beige material resembling a twisted or wrapped root or branch. The overall composition suggests a sense of concealment and tension, hinting at an underlying narrative or meaning. The artist's intention may be to explore themes of transformation, duality, or the interplay between the natural and the artificial. ...

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Artist

Phyllida Barlow

1944 , British

Using every day and low-cost materials such as cardboard, plywood, polystyrene, cement and fabric, Phyllida Barlow creates sculptural installations that reinvent one’s relationship with sculpture and the space they occupy. Her usually large yet anti-monumental sculptures, painted in bright and industrial colours, reveal their structural foundations, balancing and stabilising at the same time. For Barlow, the sculpture acts as a landscape through which the viewer walks through, experiencing the play of volume, mass and perspective. In 2017, the artist represented the UK at the Venice Biennale with her installation titled folly, where sculptures occupied the space from floor to ceiling to the outside of the building. By imposing scale over the fragility of balance and precariousness of her choice of materials, Barlow creates works that are powerful and grounding in their playfulness. ...

Phyllida Barlow: Artworks

Phyllida Barlowuntitled: hostage; 2022, 2022Price on Request