Nick van Woert, Terra Amata
FIAF Fall Festival, Crossing the Line 2011
FIAF Gallery, New York, September 17 - October 29, 2011
IMAGES FROM NICK VAN WOERT'S PREVIOUS ARTWORKS:
FIAF Gallery
French Institute Alliance Française
22 East 60th Street, New York, NY 10022
www.fiaf.org
www.crossingtheline.org
FIAF Fall Festival, Crossing the Line 2011
FIAF Gallery, New York, September 17 - October 29, 2011
NICK VAN WOERT
Untitled, 2011
© Nick van Woert, Courtesy of Yvon Lambert, Paris-New York
The FIAF Gallery presents Terra Amata, a specially commissioned installation by Brooklyn-based American sculptor NICK VAN WOERT. Known for transforming found objects and scavenged art materials into surreal, gravity-defying figures and shapes, the former architecture student borrows icons from the past and overlaps them with more familiar contemporary materials.
NICK VAN WOERT
Untitled, 2011
© Nick van Woert, Courtesy of Yvon Lambert, Paris-New York
This new work makes visible a chronology of forms and ideas that reference the ideals of former generations, bridging classical sculpture to the Donner Party, Henry David Thoreau to Ted Kaczynski, and Pruitt-Igoe to 6221 Osage Avenue. The exhibition's title, Terra Amata, refers to a site in the South of France where it is believed that fire was used domestically for the first time.
NICK VAN WOERT
Untitled, 2011
© Nick van Woert, Courtesy of Yvon Lambert, Paris-New York
The previous "Untitled" pictures are from Terra Amata work by Nick van Woert. A previous work of Nick van Woert, Poor Me, illustrates a quite similar concept but in a colorful version.
IMAGES FROM NICK VAN WOERT'S PREVIOUS ARTWORKS:
NICK VAN WOERT, Poor Me
© Nick van Woert, Courtesy of Yvon Lambert, Paris-New York
NICK VAN WOERT, Poor Me
© Nick van Woert, Courtesy of Yvon Lambert, Paris-New York
NICK VAN WOERT, Poor Me
© Nick van Woert, Courtesy of Yvon Lambert, Paris-New York
NICK VAN WOERT, Damnatio Memoriae
© Nick van Woert, Courtesy of Yvon Lambert, Paris-New York
NICK VAN WOERT, Hollow Core
© Nick van Woert, Courtesy of Yvon Lambert, Paris-New York
NICK VAN WOERT, We're All in This Together
© Christian Patterson, Courtesy of Yvon Lambert, Paris-New York
NICK VAN WOERT, Mary Mary
© Nick van Woert, Courtesy of Yvon Lambert, Paris-New York
NICK VAN WOERT, Return to Nature
© Nick van Woert, Courtesy of Yvon Lambert, Paris-New York
FIAF Gallery
French Institute Alliance Française
22 East 60th Street, New York, NY 10022
www.fiaf.org
www.crossingtheline.org
