
Celebrates one of the most influential female sculptors working today
Features over 25 sculptures that highlight the artist’s evolution and presents a window into the unique synthesis of emotional fragility and imposing scale in her work.
With an extensive interview between noted guest curator Mark Rosenthal and Ursula von Rydingsvard.
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Ursula von Rydingsvard
The Contour of Feeling
This publication documents Ursula von Rydingsvard’s exhibition at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, which features a large new leather work produced with the museum’s studio. The survey — guest curated by Mark Rosenthal — largely focuses on her artistic development since 2000 and reveals her predilection for emotionally-charged, visceral art that is handwrought, richly complex, and monumentally scaled.
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Ursula von Rydingsvard is best known for her large-scale works and signature use of cedarwood, which evokes the grandeur and power of nature. Her sculptures’ abstract shapes reference the mark of the human hand —evidence of the artist’s meticulous process of cutting, shaping, and assembling her works from thousands of cedar blocks. "The Contour of Feeling" debuts a new sculpture created in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum. Constructed from leather — a first for the artist — the new material represents an expansion for von Rydingsvard’s practice.
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Foreword by S. L. Talbott; “Why I Make Art” by Ursula von Rydingsvard;
Interview of Ursula von Rydingsvard by M. Rosenthal
128 pages, 82 colour illustrations
23 x 32 cm, hardcover
Interview of Ursula von Rydingsvard by M. Rosenthal
128 pages, 82 colour illustrations
23 x 32 cm, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-7774-2999-1
Events
Philadelphia
| The Fabric Workshop and Museum
27/04/2018 - 26/08/2018
Washington D.C.
| National Museum of the Women in the Arts
22/03/2019 - 28/07/2019
Keywords
Wood, sculpture, sculptor, wooden sculpture, 21st century, contemporary art
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