Welcome to Palm Beach, @robertmelee! #HomeSweetHome (2008) is one of four oversized, figurative s
Welcome to Palm Beach, @robertmelee! #HomeSweetHome (2008) is one of four oversized, figurative sculptures created by New York-based artist Robert Melee. These bronzes seem familiar in their generalized characteristics and poses, but also exude a haunting sense of disguise through their amorphous features. To construct these commanding forms, Melee starts with mannequins to establish the basic human figure, and then works to blur recognizable details with abstract forms by covering most of the features with canvas and plaster. He then casts the sculptures in bronze and employs his signature painting technique called “marbleizing,” an obsessively exaggerated interpretation of classic marbleizing, in which he drips and splatters the sculptures with brightly colored enamel paint. The results are works of art that unite formal characteristics of painting and sculpture. Robert Melee is known for producing works of art that explore human behavior and psychology. Throughout his career, Melee has focused his attention on the interaction and relationships as seen through characters, both real and invented, in his art. Melee’s outdoor bronze sculptures represent the artist’s gleefully perverse conflations of modern art and suburban life; the abject and the abstract keep close company in mannequins whose frozen poses, so heavily doused in paint that they have a geological mass, and in rock-solid drapes covered in painting reminiscent of Jackson Pollock. Robert Melee , 2008 Aqua enamel on bronze 156 x 84 x 60 in (396.2 x 213.4 x 152.4 cm) The artist in his studio, Lisbon, Portugal. ___ #robertmelee #herleaving #palmbeach #theroyalpoincianaplaza @theroyalpoincianaplaza (at The Royal Poinciana Plaza) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKSMcqTlib0/?igshid=15pcorrzi67q1 -- source link
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