Kenneth Snelson "Selected Work: 1948 - 2009"

Marlborough Chelsea

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The show will feature fourteen selected sculptures that span the length of Snelson’s career to date and will include such seminal works as Moving Column 1st study, 1948-1981, Wood X-Piece, 1948-1981 and Bead Chain X-Column, 1959, plus important works from the Minimalist period including Three Reds, 1966; Sun Run, 1967 and Six #2, 1968. Additionally, the complex and imposing 72-foot-long Sleeping Dragon from 2003 will be shown. Sleeping Dragon was last exhibited at the exhibition George Rickey, Kenneth Snelson: Two Americans in Paris held at the Jardins de Palais Royal, Paris, France in 2006.

Through Sleeping Dragon’s undulating aluminum and stainless steel tubes, cables and fittings, Snelson pushes the aesthetic and structural possibilities of tensegrity to an extreme of size and complexity. In her forthcoming essay on Snelson, Eleanor Heartney remarks that the artist’s sculptures often “…thrust upward in a series of diminishing modules as if straining towards infinity and they meander horizontally above the ground in defiance of gravity. Sometimes they suggest collections of pick-up sticks thrown up into the air and suspended there.”

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from February 19, 2009 to March 21, 2009

Artist(s)

Kenneth Snelson

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