{"id":5387,"date":"2023-04-05T08:39:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T08:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=5387"},"modified":"2024-08-31T18:15:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T18:15:05","slug":"small-scale-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/small-scale-sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary sculpture &#8211; pliers and plaster (and paint)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sculpture-6189-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Contemporary sculpture in the Arte Povera genre\" class=\"wp-image-5388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sculpture-6189-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sculpture-6189-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sculpture-6189-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sculpture-6189-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sculpture-6189-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-content\/uploads\/sculpture-6189.jpg 1234w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pliers Piece I<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pliers, plaster, acrylic paint.     12x1815cm.     2020<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A sculpture composed of a pair of splayed handyman&#8217;s pliers and a painted plastercast of the inside of a coffee filter cone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pliers and other handyman&#8217;s tools such as hammers and spanners are recurrent features in some of my constructions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The work is probably influenced by the Arte Povera movement, and the plastercast of the inside of the coffee filter may owe something to artists such as Rachel Whiteread (although I don&#8217;t think that she&#8217;s known for adding colour to her casts).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pliers Piece I Pliers, plaster, acrylic paint. 12x1815cm. 2020 A sculpture composed of a pair of splayed handyman&#8217;s pliers and a painted plastercast of the inside of a coffee filter cone. Pliers and other handyman&#8217;s tools such as hammers and spanners are recurrent features in some of my constructions. The work is probably influenced by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[74,122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5387"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8159,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387\/revisions\/8159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}