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Monday, June 30, 2008

Martin Puryear Exhibition at the National Gallery in DC

Ad Astra, 2007



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.



Maroon, 1987-1988
wire mesh, pine, yellow poplar, tar




Malediction, completed in 2007
thin sheets of red cedar, its knifelike edges protruding from the wall

C.F.A.O. 2006/2007
painted and unpainted pine and found wheelborrow



Timber's Turn, 1987
Honduras mahogany, red cedar, and Douglas fir




(Contemporary Art)
(Washington DC National Gallery of Art)

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