Artist Mark di Suvero's Towering Vision Is on View at the Nasher Sculpture Center TheNasher61
It's art that truly moves us. Literally. You can climb into a rubber swing at Mark di Suvero's survey exhibition at the Nasher.Every longtime Dallas resident can't help but be familiar with the work of Mark di Suvero. His epic"Ad Astra" soars to the roof of NorthPark Center, while the bright red steel beams of"Ave" established the sculpture as one of the most iconic works inside or outside the Dallas Museum of Art.
"Over the last several years, I've mentioned to people that we've been planning an exhibition on Mark," he says."The reaction has often been immediate, 'That's wonderful, fantastic, how exciting,' then a pause [followed by] 'How are you going to do that?'""The thinking is Mark di Suvero is an artist that makes really big sculptures, and how are you going to get those in a museum?" Strick says.
You know artist Mark di Suvero's work, even if you don't think you know it. Now really get to know it at an exhibition running at the Nasher Sculpture Center through Aug. 27.Just seven months before his first solo show was due to open at New York's Green Gallery, di Suvero was persuaded to climb on top of an elevator to steady a cabinet he was delivering. When the structure failed to stop, the artist was sandwiched by a thousand pounds of pressure, paralyzing him from the waist down.
A tragedy of this magnitude could halt the career of many, but instead it drove di Suvero to create work that embodied a new playfulness. Even with pieces that don't spin or twirl, there is always a sense of the joy of space. The viewer must twist and turn around every structure to absorb it from every angle.includes sculptures from 1959 to 2022, from di Suvero's early wooden pieces to more figurative works like a wax hand he recreated in bronze in the early 1970s.
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