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NEW YORK—The Paula Cooper Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new sculpture and works on paper by the internationally acclaimed sculptor Mark di Suvero. The exhibition includes a new large-scale steel structure and a series of recent drawings.
Time Out for Nicole d’Oresme, a 27-foot tall steel structure, is composed of 5 intersecting I-beams of various sizes and a central curved element. The title refers to the French mathematician, Nicole d’Oresme (1323–1382), who long before Descartes invented coordinate geometry and rejected the theory of a stationary Earth two centuries before Copernicus. Recently made in the artist’s studio in Long Island City, New York, the work has never before been exhibited.
Mark di Suvero is one of America’s preeminent sculptors. Since the 1960s, his works have punctuated landscapes and urban settings in America and abroad, combining, often at a monumental scale, the roughness of found industrial materials with a seeming weightlessness and a gestural quality reminiscent of drawing in space. According to Barbara Rose, “all the sculptures [di Suvero] has made with pieces of industrial steel […] are welded, rivetted or bolted together, connected according to variable but precise arr
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Born in China to Italian parents in 1933, Mark Di Suvero and his family settled in California in the early 1940s. In 1957, after studying art and philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley, di Suvero moved to New York and created his first sculptures out of retrieved materials and wood. From 1966, these works lead to monumental installations made from steel beams assembled into almost architectural constructions. In the 1970s, he moved to France for about a decade, living in Chalon-sur-Saône in the south of Burgundy, and founded a non-profit organisation which brought together sculptors in a unique setting: a barge moored in a shipyard. Over the years, his artistic vocabulary widened to include circular forms and sharp angles; giving way to more complex pieces exploring notions of balance and movement.
For his exhibition at Galerie Mitterrand, Mark di Suvero is presenting a selection of five sculptures made of steel, stainless steel, and titanium, which are characteristic of his entire body of work alogside two works on paper. Shooshine, 2002 is a monumental stainless-steel sculpture, 2m tall and 3m wide. Comprising a fixed component and a mobile component balanced on a pole, the sculpture was designed to spin and sway when given a light push b