Carole A. Feuerman
The ninth edition of the project
"From La Biennale di Venezia & Open to Rome. International Perspectives" project
presents the sculptures of the American artist
for the first time in Rome.
Galleria d’Arte Moderna
14 July - 10 October 2021
Carole A. Feuerman marks the ninth stage of the project "From La Biennale di Venezia & Open to Rome. International Perspectives", promoted by Roma Capitale, Assessorato alla Crescita Culturale - Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali in collaboration with PDG Arte Communications in partnership with Bel-Air Fine Art Contemporary Art Galleries, curated by Paolo De Grandis and Carlotta Scarpa. Under the patronage of the Embassy of the United States of America in Italy. Museum services by Zètema Progetto Cultura.
The general project, launched in 2016 by the Sovrintendenza Capitolina in collaboration with PDG Arte Communications and curated by Paolo De Grandis and Claudio Crescentini, is dedicated to the presentation in the Capitoline exhibition spaces of a number of international exhibitions/installations from the International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia and from OPEN International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations, linked to the Venice International Film Festival, recomposed and remodelled site-specifically for the Capital. The aim is to bring together the art "perspectives" of two cities that are working to bring the experiences of international art to Italy. From the lagoon city to the Capital.
Carole A. Feuerman is internationally recognised as one of the leading exponents of American sculpture and one of the world's most renowned hyper-realist sculptors with a career spanning over five decades. She is "the queen of super-realism", as defined by art historian John Spike. She creates life-size and miniature works in bronze, resin and marble and is best known for her large-scale figurative pieces depicting female swimmers.
On the occasion of this new appointment Carole A. Feuerman will present some of her best known sculptures in coloured resin and some more recent works in bronze and gold leaf. The subjects that are dear to the artist and that have marked her expressive path since the 1980s are swimmers, bathers with a poetic inspiration captured in the moment of a suspended stillness and then again athletic figures portrayed in the act of greatest physical tension up to the latest tributes to the great classics such as "The Thinker", perfectly set in parallel and in comparison with the architectural structure of the ancient eighteenth-century monastery that currently houses the GAM exhibition spaces.
An interpreter of the excellence of the female body, Carole A. Feuerman evokes, through a reborn candour, her childhood years spent on Long Island as well as her fascination with water and swimming. Her swimmers, in their contemporary grace and perfection, borrow the power of beauty from the past and preserve the proportion of great classical sculpture.
Bibi on the Ball and Monumental Brooke with beach ball are empathic works of sensitive aesthetic immediacy that bring us closer and initiate a direct dialogue with our viewers.
On the other hand, the burnished bronze works of renewed material vigour are characterised by stylistic counterpoints provided by the use of gold leaf.
Carole A. Feuerman's technique is characterised by unparalleled expertise. From the choice of the model to the first silicone mould, from the first plaster cast to the most meticulous creative intervention through the application of eyelashes, the successive interventions on small wrinkles, folds, freckles and drops of water gliding over the skin. A continuous act that is regenerated each time the work is exhibited.
My swimmers have a personality and tell their own story which is then a reflection of mine, sometimes autobiographical, sometimes just a story that needs to be told. While their outward appearance is often one of beauty and tranquility, these elegant faces conceal a deeper meaning of affirmation and liberation."
Carole A. Feuerman
Carole A. Feuerman lives in New York and Florida, and is educated in both Manhattan and Jersey City.
She is recognized, along with Duane Hanson and John D'Andrea, as one of the three major American hyperrealist sculptors who started the movement in the 1970s. She has taught, lectured and given workshops at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, Columbia University and Grounds for Sculpture. In 2011 she founded the Carole A. Feuerman Sculpture Foundation.
Her artworks have been included in An American Odyssey 1945-1980 with leading post-World War II American artists. Le sue opere sono esposte nei più prestigiosi musei del mondo: Metropolitan Museum of Art, The State Hermitage, The Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, The Bass Museum, The Boca Ratum Museum e nella Forbes Magazine Art Collection.
Her work is exhibited in the world's most prestigious museums: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The State Hermitage, The Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, The Bass Museum, The Boca Ratum Museum and the Forbes Magazine Art Collection.
His art is included in the collections of President and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Frederic R. Weisman Art Foundation, Dr. Henry Kissinger, the Michael Gorbachev Art Foundation, the Malcolm Forbes Magazine Collection and the State Hermitage in Russia. Feuerman's selected awards include Best in Show at the 3rd Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing, NC, the 2001 Lorenzo De Magnifico Prize for the International Biennale: Of Contemporary Art in Florence, Italy, the 2002 Honorary Prize for the Ausstellungszentrum Heft in Huttenberg, Austria, and the Medici Prize awarded by the City of Florence.
