Barry Le Va
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Barry Le Va is an American
artist.
The sculpture's first formulation was included in Le Va's 2005 retrospective at Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art
, but there was nothing shopworn about this work. Indeed, there was something genuinely exciting about its accumulation of sculptural elements, which at once evoked architectural models, minimalist furniture, outsize refrigerator magnets, and some sort of alien language. They spread across the floor and scaled the walls way above head height, suggesting that the viewer might follow their lead.
United States
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artist.
The sculpture's first formulation was included in Le Va's 2005 retrospective at Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art
Contemporary art
Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...
, but there was nothing shopworn about this work. Indeed, there was something genuinely exciting about its accumulation of sculptural elements, which at once evoked architectural models, minimalist furniture, outsize refrigerator magnets, and some sort of alien language. They spread across the floor and scaled the walls way above head height, suggesting that the viewer might follow their lead.