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Mark di Suvero's Victor's Lament (foreground in red) on the campus of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, is an I-beam sculpture paying tribute to the rich history of steelmaking in the Lehigh Valley region of the eastern Pennsylvania.
Inner Search is a pyramidal steel sculpture consisting of two bisecting, bent I-beams. [1] California artist Mark di Suvero was first commissioned for the project in October 1979 by Northwestern National Bank to construct a 30 to 40 foot sculpture on the plaza outside their new Operations Center in Downtown West, Minneapolis. [2]
Matt Hope grew up in London. He studied at Chelsea School of Art, London in 1994–96. Hope received his BFA at the Winchester School of Art, Hampshire, U.K. in 1999, and earned his MFA at University of California, San Diego in 2004. [1] He lived in Beijing's Caochangdi, the artist districted identified with Ai Weiwei from 2008 until 2020. [2] [3]
It stands tall at 40 feet and is made from steel I-beams, which the artist painted an orange-red color. The sculpture resembles a rising sun, and is colloquially called the Sunburst. [2] It currently sits in O'Donnell Park, next to the Milwaukee County War Memorial building and in front of the Milwaukee Art Museum. When the piece was first ...
The RCA Building in December 1933 during the construction of Rockefeller Center. The photograph depicts eleven men eating lunch while sitting on a steel beam 850 feet (260 meters) above the ground on the sixty-ninth floor of the near-completed RCA Building (now known as 30 Rockefeller Plaza) at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, New York City, on September 20, 1932.
The sculpture is composed of industrial steel I-beams. The I-beams, a recurring element of di Suvero's work, are cut and welded into a series of crossed bars arranged diagonally and painted red . References
Each sculpture is inscribed with the name of a groundbreaking figure in human history, including Aristotle, David Bowie, Leonardo da Vinci, Gandhi, Billie Holiday, Gabriel García Márquez, Andy ...
The sculpture was acquired by the Hirshhorn with funds from the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund, a gift from the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, and by exchange of the di Suvero artwork ISIS, [4] in 1999. [1] The sculpture was installed on June 13, 1999, by crane into the museum's sculpture garden. [7]