The Extravagant Minimalism of Tom Price
Counterpart is both a sculpture and a bench. And no matter how you look at it, it's unlike anything you've ever seen. Designed for a prestigious commission, this iconic work by the British artist Tom Price has since inspired a collection of one-of-a-kind pieces that lie somewhere between art and design.
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Tom Price with one of his most recent works, Synthesis L4 (2021, mural and light sculpture)
Tom Price has been centring his creative practice around materials since his studies at the prestigious Royal College of Art, which was under the direction of Ron Arad at the time. He works with all kinds of materials, from the most conventional to the totally novel, and brings the passion of a veritable alchemist to his experimentation. “Presence & Absence,” his 2014 solo exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, brought his boldness and virtuosity in this field to public attention. In the exhibition, he presented a series of human figures, cast in coal, in various stages of decomposition. “I started working with coal when I became fascinated with the ash-encrusted body casts of victims of the volcanic eruption in Pompeii. I wanted to create something in response to a phrase I heard about people from Herculaneum (a town closer in proximity to the volcano) being ‘instantly carbonized’ by the intense heat.”
Two works from the series “The ...
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Tom Price with one of his most recent works, Synthesis L4 (2021, mural and light sculpture)
Tom Price has been centring his creative practice around materials since his studies at the prestigious Royal College of Art, which was under the direction of Ron Arad at the time. He works with all kinds of materials, from the most conventional to the totally novel, and brings the passion of a veritable alchemist to his experimentation. “Presence & Absence,” his 2014 solo exhibition at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, brought his boldness and virtuosity in this field to public attention. In the exhibition, he presented a series of human figures, cast in coal, in various stages of decomposition. “I started working with coal when I became fascinated with the ash-encrusted body casts of victims of the volcanic eruption in Pompeii. I wanted to create something in response to a phrase I heard about people from Herculaneum (a town closer in proximity to the volcano) being ‘instantly carbonized’ by the intense heat.”
Two works from the series “The ...
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