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Alicia Quade. Parapivot
Exhibition April 16 − October 27, 2019
Metropolitan Museum presents an exhibition-installation "Alicia Quadu. ParaPivot".
The works of the Berlin artist Alicia Kvade (born in 1979, in Poland) are elegant, strict and very empirical. Using a wide range of media, Kwade creates sculptures and installations that reflect time, perception, and research. Ultimately, Kwade seeks to strengthen both the mystery and the absurdity of the human condition in order to increase our ability for self-reflection.
For the Metropolitan Museum, Kvade created a two-part sculpture that resembles an astrolabe - an ancient Greek instrument used to project the orbital trajectories of the planet. Aesthetically, it looks like a cross between a Woo-Lo toy and a solar system diorama.
Nine marble spheres, some of which weigh more than a ton, are suspended from a series of interlocking steel frames. Like the nine planets that they symbolize, each stone has its own appearance, composition, and prehistory. One is made from an Azoulian Macaubasa from Brazil; the other is from materials found in Norway. The work is located on the roof terrace of the museum.
This is the first personal exhibition of Quade in the American Museum.
According to the official siteMetropolitan Museum and news.artnet.com.
Photo: Johannes Eiselle and Kristina Horsten.
The works of the Berlin artist Alicia Kvade (born in 1979, in Poland) are elegant, strict and very empirical. Using a wide range of media, Kwade creates sculptures and installations that reflect time, perception, and research. Ultimately, Kwade seeks to strengthen both the mystery and the absurdity of the human condition in order to increase our ability for self-reflection.
For the Metropolitan Museum, Kvade created a two-part sculpture that resembles an astrolabe - an ancient Greek instrument used to project the orbital trajectories of the planet. Aesthetically, it looks like a cross between a Woo-Lo toy and a solar system diorama.
Nine marble spheres, some of which weigh more than a ton, are suspended from a series of interlocking steel frames. Like the nine planets that they symbolize, each stone has its own appearance, composition, and prehistory. One is made from an Azoulian Macaubasa from Brazil; the other is from materials found in Norway. The work is located on the roof terrace of the museum.
This is the first personal exhibition of Quade in the American Museum.
According to the official siteMetropolitan Museum and news.artnet.com.
Photo: Johannes Eiselle and Kristina Horsten.
