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The bronze piece was an attenuated form that leans over a walkway and its near-falling form is viewed as an energizing element in the museum's courtyard. This sculpture, like all of Shapiro's mature works, are untitled. Shapiro is Jewish and Jewish traditions have influenced his art works, including his frequent use of the color blue.
Subverting the distinctions between abstraction and representation, Joel Shapiro reconsiders the modern figurative tradition. Shapiro creates abstract geometric sculpture that elicits a sense of movement and engages viewers’ physical and psychological relationships with space.
For over 50 years, Joel Shapiro has refined the elements of gravity, structure, and movement in his geometric sculptures that test the boundaries of abstraction and figuration.
Advisory. Art Fairs. Joel Shapiro Biography. In his abstracted sculptures which reference the human form, American artist Joel Shapiro creates dynamic and geometric representations of motion. Read More. Early Years and the Peace Corps. Joel Shapiro was born in 1941 in Sunnyside, Queens, USA.
Untitled. Since the mid-1970s, Joel Shapiro has made sculptures of the human form using only rectangular wooden blocks, which he then casts in bronze. By emphasizing the dynamic movement of the body, instead of traits such as gender or race, Shapiro’s simple, playful figures suggest the universality of human experience.
Connect. (opens in a new window) @pacegallery. Pace is pleased to present an exhibition of Joel Shapiro’s sculptures at the gallery’s recently expanded space in Seoul. Spanning two floors of the gallery, the presentation spotlights a selection of the artist’s bronze works alongside smaller-scale, vibrantly colored sculptures made of wood.
JOEL SHAPIRO IS THIRTY-TWO and has been exhibiting regularly since 1969. His work calls to mind the essay, “Film and the New Psychology,” in which Maurice Merleau-Ponty points out that we are always aware of a cube’s six sides even though we can never see more than three of them at once.
