I Love this guys stuff- He’s truly carrying on with what Gaudi was playing with
Lee Bontecou, Untitled,Welded steel, porcelain, wire mesh, canvas, and wire,
1998 (begun in 1980s)
Michael Kimmelman of the New York Times gives us some background:
“A star on the clamorous New York art scene of the 1960′s, the only woman in Leo Castelli’s famed stable, Ms. Bontecou made hulking, ferocious wall reliefs with yawning black cavities. She used Army surplus materials, twisted bits of bristly copper wire and weathered canvas strips of discarded conveyor belts from a laundry below her decrepit studio on the Lower East Side. At the Modern, these
early reliefs pack a special wallop, thrusting out from the walls, a battery of loaded weapons threatening to go off.”
Lee Bontecou, Untitled, Welded steel, canvas, wire, and velvet, 1966
These are tough and monumenetal. The latter sculptures are more delicate and lacy mobiles suggesting jelly fish:
Frank Stella – well it looks like Stella has finally abandonded that crap he was doing in the 80′s and 90′s- (can anyone tell me how those earlier works inspired them?) these new works are much more subtle and fluid-looks like he took some notes from Lee Bontecou
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