Title
Escultura hiperrealista 1973-2016 / Edición a cargo de Otto Letze ; textos de Otto Letze, Argiro Mavromatis, Franklin Hill Perrell, Kirsten Pick.
Notes
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museo de Bellas artes de Bilbao, Spain, June 7- Sept. 26, 2016.
Summary
" The vivid and accurate representation of the human figure is the protagonist of the new exhibition at the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, which brings together a total of 34 sculptures made by 26 of the most representative artists of the movement. A thorough review spanning more than five decades, since the birth of hyperrealism. During the 60s and 70s, many sculptors began using traditional art techniques such as modeling or painting to recreate the human body. In the exhibition at the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, we can see five different ways of addressing the corpora representation l, the same in which the exhibition is divided Sculpture 1973-2016 Hiperrealista "human Replicas "," Sculptures monochrome "," body Parts "," the game of dimensions "and" distorted Realities ". All works will surprise the viewer by its impressive appearance of reality. The selection includes all the highlights hyperrealist sculptors from the American pioneers George Segal, Duane Hanson and John DeAndrea. He continues with the international dissemination of the movement: the Spanish Juan Muñoz, Maurizio Cattelan Italian, the Berlinde of Bruyckere Belgian, Australian Ron Mueck, Sam Jinks and Patricia Piccinini or Canadian Evan Penny, among others. The exhibition thus underlines the international character of hyperrealism and its validity: the work of John DeAndrea Lisa recently completed, is presented to the public for the first time"--Publisher's description.