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Article: Keeping company: sculptures by Alain Kirili and the 19th-century artist Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux were recently juxtaposed in a French museum. The exhibition made the case for the enduring worth of free and direct modeling in contemporary practice. (Report From Valenciennes).
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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The peripatetic French sculptor Alain Kirili has divided his time between Paris and New York for almost 30 years. In New York he is best known for his works in metal, both vertical forgings and arrays of smaller welded-steel sculptures, particularly the "Commandment" series. His European exhibitions have been quite varied: besides metal pieces, he has shown abstract works in terra-cotta, plaster, cement, stone, wax, urethane foam and cast polyester resin, sometimes as single pieces, sometimes grouped in roughly 10- to 30-element ensembles. Kirili's durable involvement with modeling--out of fashion with most contemporary sculptors--was at the heart of his recent exhibition ...