The Figure in Question

No object or form elicits a more subjective, more potent response than the human figure.

Our instinctive, visceral and uniquely personal reaction has shaped the traditions of figural sculpture, which celebrates the body as an object of desire and a metaphor for power. The sculpted form gains new depths amid contemporary trends of digital disembodiment: we respond to its tactile, tangible habitation of our physical space with feelings of tenderness and connection, sympathetic elation and pity.

‘The Figure In Question’, a long overdue major exhibition of figurative sculpture from the region, draws together four sculptors to explore the human form through its political, social and fundamentally intimate dimensions. Despite their divergent practices, these artists share common ground in their obvious engagement with the material working process, creating works that are immediate, evocative conduits for ideas and emotions.

 

 

Image above: Trevor Weekes, The story of flight, 2006. Timber, plastic, Perspex, acrylic paint, 30 x 180 cm

Image below: Peter Speight, La donna con il vestito rosso from The Figure in Question series, 2006. Painted timber, 73 x 27 x 20.5cm

 

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Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie, 1A First Street, Booragul 2284  View in Google Maps