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Lynda BenglisGold Leafed Bronze Wings1979
1979
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Lynda Benglis
Gold Leafed Bronze Wings, 1979
Lithograph on wove paper
Hand signed, dated 1979 and numbered by Lynda Benglis on the front in bright green crayon. Bears publishers blind stamp
Unframed and affixed to dark grey/black matting
Hand signed, dated 1979 and numbered by Lynda Benglis on the front in bright green crayon. Bears publishers blind stamp. Published by Landfall Press; a rare limited edition print from the 1970s, depicting a sculptural installation by one of the most dynamic influential and important art world superstars of our time.
The writing on the print:
Gold Leafed Bronze Wings
Black Concrete Obelisk
North South East West Elevation
Measurements:
Matting:
26.5 x 34 inches
Print:
22.5 x 30 inches
About Lynda Benglis:
Since the 1960s, Lynda Benglis has been celebrated for her free, ecstatic forms, which are simultaneously playful and visceral, organic and, abstract.
Benglis began her career in the midst of the Postminimal movement, pushing the traditions of painting and sculpture into new territories. She initiated several bodies of work in the late 60s and early 70s that set the course for her subsequent practice. Her wax paintings, which began with brushed skin-like layers of pigmented beeswax and dammar resin progressed, in one series, to the use of a blowtorch as a kind of brush, manipulating colors into a marbleized surface that seemingly fought against the constraints of the lozenge-shaped Masonite panels. The impulse to see these forms flow beyond the structure of a traditional support led Benglis to embrace pigmented latex, which she began pouring directly onto the floor. The use of gravity and her body in the latex pours invoked Jackson Pollock’s process, a connection immortalized in the February 27, 1970 edition of Life magazine, which featured Benglis at work.
Concurrently, she began working with pigmented polyurethane foam, building the volume of her sculptures vertically by pouring the oozing, lava-like forms against walls and in the corners of spaces or over constructed armatures and chicken wire, which she removed after the wall mounted foam pours solidified. Benglis’s totem-like sculptures followed as long, cylindrical structures made of wire mesh, cotton bunting, and plaster that, by 1972, she began to tie into knots. Painted with metallic sparkle, Sculp-Metal, or layers of sprayed, vaporized aluminum, copper, zinc, or tin, the works are further complicated by the reflections of their surfaces, conflating the sculptural object with painterly space. The contorted shapes, formed by the artist’s hands, express the bodily force used by Benglis throughout her career continuing with her gold sculptures of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
In the early 70s, Benglis took new media technologies as her material, producing video art at a time when it was still in its early stages as a medium. Her experimental videos feature performative actions and technological mediation to explore themes of physical presence, narcissism, sexuality, and gendered identity. Physical and Psychological Moments in Time, a retrospective of video works by Benglis, was held in 1975 by Fine Arts Center Gallery, State University of New York College at Oneonta, and subsequently traveled to Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands. Benglis also introduced images of herself into the public discourse through a 1974 Artforum ad, which challenged assumptions about self-presentation and gender in the male-dominated art world.
Benglis extended her innovative use of materials into the natural realm when, in 1984, she first used water as an element in her sculptures. She won the competition to create a fountain for that year’s Louisiana World Exposition in New Orleans, resulting in The Wave of the World (1983–84) in cast bronze. Since then, she created numerous sculptural fountains, including Chimera (1988) and Double Fountain, Mother and Child, For Anand (2007), the latter originally installed at Le Jardin Botanique de Dijon, France, and North South East West (2009), which was initially exhibited at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. These works effectively convey fluidity in both physical and thematic forms through the use of water as a medium.
The embrace of flowing forms, color, and sensual surfaces plays a large part in Benglis’s continuous investigation of the proprioceptive, sensory experiences of making and viewing her sculptures. From the complex chromatic harmonies of the wax paintings to the selected use of brilliant Day-Glo pigments or phosphorescence in her latex and foam sculptures, Benglis’s exuberant engagement with color, along with her radical employment of material, sets her apart from the more achromatic focus of her Minimalist and Postminimal contemporaries.
Courtesy of Pace Gallery
- Creator:Lynda Benglis (1941, American)
- Creation Year:1979
- Dimensions:Height: 26.5 in (67.31 cm)Width: 34 in (86.36 cm)
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- Condition:In very good vintage condition; it is affixed to matting and ready for re-framing.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1745213057192
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