{"id":49385,"date":"2024-03-20T10:50:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T08:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cycladic.gr\/ektheseis\/nuds-cycladic-2\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T10:26:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T08:26:38","slug":"nuds-cycladic-2","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/cycladic.gr\/en\/ektheseis\/nuds-cycladic-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Lucas <br> <i> NUDS Cycladic <\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sarah Lucas
NUDS Cycladic <\/i><\/h1>

CONTEMPORARY ART<\/p>

MAY 12 UNTIL SEPTEMBER 12, 2010<\/p><\/header>

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THE EXHIBITION<\/h2> <\/header>\n\n \n
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\n The pieces NUDS Cycladic which Sarah Lucas created especially for the exhibition at the Museum of Cycladic Art are part of her ongoing series of sculptures NUDS, initially created in 2009.\n <\/div>\n \n \n<\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n
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Each is made from nylon tights stuffed with pale-coloured fluff and twisted into an ambiguous, biomorphic form. The works lean towards primitivism and abstraction, a self-reflecting series that moves away from the gender-based critique of her work in the 1990s and takes the earlier figurative \u2018bunny\u2019 sculpture series to a more abstract form.<\/p>\n

The indeterminate organic shapes of the NUDS, offset by plinths of stacked breeze blocks, recall the smooth-contoured sculptures of British Modernists such as Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. The influence of other canonical figures, notably Hans Bellmer and Louise Bourgeois, is manifested by the works\u2019 suggestion of limbs, breasts, orifices and other corporeal fragments.<\/p>\n

In the context of the \u039cuseum of Cycladic Art, by playfully referencing the smooth and stylized female forms of Cycladic figurines, Lucas\u2019s transformation of nylon stockings into twisted bodily contortions constitutes a feminist response to such canonical sculpture. The best-known objects from this period (3rd millenium BC), however, are strangely modern, marble representations of the naked female form. Lucas has clearly drawn on these influences, whilst continuing to subvert expectations about how the human (and particularly female) body is depicted.<\/p>\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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NUD CYCLADIC (16), 2010\r\nSarah Lucas<\/div>
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NUD CYCLADIC (15), 2010\r\nSarah Lucas\r\n<\/div>
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NUD CYCLADIC (16), 2010\r\nSarah Lucas<\/div>
\u00a9 SARAH LUCAS, photography Julian Simmons, courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London<\/div><\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n
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NUD CYCLADIC (15), 2010\r\nSarah Lucas\r\n<\/div>
\u00a9 SARAH LUCAS, photography Julian Simmons, courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London<\/div><\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n
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