Barbara Chase-Riboud: Infinite Folds (Chase-Riboud Barbara)(Pevná vazba)

"Contemporary monuments [that] raise questions about which figures are remembered, and which histories preserved." --Hettie Judah, The GuardianWith a career spanning over seven decades, Philadelphia-born, Paris-based sculptor Barbara Chase-Riboud (born 1939) has long been an innovator in sculptural composition. Her materiality is characterized by the interplay between folds of cast bronze or aluminum and skeins of wool and silk which are knotted, braided, looped and woven. Pitting opposing qualities against one another--hard and soft, light against heavy and tactile versus rigid--the artist's iconic monumental sculptures explore, in her own words, "reversing and upsetting the established order and the hierarchy of parts as only a true revolutionary does." At an encyclopedic exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, these pieces feature alongside
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