Martin Puryear Exhibition at the National Gallery in DC
You see the works of Martin Puryear, you think at BrĂ¢ncusi. Not only because of the wood: also the same feeling of primary countryside world, of the essential, the basics. A wheel, a cart, a crate, a basket, that's it. Simplicity, purity, the primary universe, in the same time an astonishing subtlety.
However, the two artists are very different. BrĂ¢ncusi created a new geometry and recreated the world. Puryear is amazed while carving in the world of wood and plays with wizardry.
Malediction, completed in 2007
thin sheets of red cedar, its knifelike edges protruding from the wall
thin sheets of red cedar, its knifelike edges protruding from the wall
(Contemporary Art)
(Washington DC National Gallery of Art)
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