Tag: kiki smith

Robert Gober, Untitled (Big Torso), 1990, beeswax, pigment, human hair, ca. 24 x 18 x 11 in., Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco

Rachel Whiteread, Untitled torso , 1991, cast dental plaster, 7.6 x 22.9 x 15.2 cm (3 x 9 x 6 in)

Patricia Piccinini, Egg/Head, 2016, Silicone, human hair

Alina Szapocznikow, Ventre (“Belly”), circa 1968, repeatedly thermoformed plastic, 50 x 50 x 20 cm

Hans Bellmer, The Doll, 1936, reconstructed 1965, Painted aluminium on brass base

Sarah Lucas, Sex Baby Bed Base (detail), 2000, chicken, T-shirt, lemons, and hanger, 70 9/10 × 52 3/5 in 180 × 133.5 cm

Berlinde De Bruyckere, Muffled Cry of the Unrealisable Desire, 2009-2010 (wax wood, glass, epoxy, iron)

Tim Hawkinson, Torso, 2018,  Shopping bags, urethane foam

Louise Bourgeois. Untitled 1998. Fabric and steel, 10 x 25 ½ x 18 inches.

Kiki Smith, Untitled (Upper Torso), paper mache with graphite, Nepal paper, marbelized paper, cloth, muslin, newspaper and wood, 16 by 18 by 8 ¼ in.

Kiki Smith, Heute, 2008

“Ms. Smith, whose younger sister Beatrice died with AIDS in 1988, has long been fixated on the fragility of the human body. In her 2008 sculpture “Heute (Now),” left, on view in Ms. Smith’s Brooklyn Museum show, a coffin in unfinished knotty pine holds meticulous lamp-worked glass dandelions, produced by the glass artist David Willis, sprouting from its interior. (It also represents another thread that has run through her work for decades: an interest in unusual juxtapositions of materials.) Although the date of the work corresponds to the 20th anniversary of her sister’s death, Ms. Smith said she was not conscious of this when she made it; rather, the piece speaks to her fascination with natural-world cycles of death and renewal.”

—NY Times