Forms and Colors
Sophia Vari
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-1-943876-31-0 (ISBN)
Description
Sophia Vari is an innovator in the world of classical modern
sculpture. Not content with being a painter, she experimented with the
three-dimensional realm, first sculpting in bronze, then in marble, and
recently in the precious and semiprecious mediums of jewelry design. Vari has
also uncovered the powerful effects of her classical polychrome forms in
monumental scale. In her work, she has been able to integrate the mental and
the physical, cerebral and sensual, planar and volumetric-giving life,
elegance, and joy to a medium that can often be static.
This lavish book contains new, never-before-seen work from the Greek artist.
From Sculpture to paintings, this book explores Vari's work through every
medium throughout her career and traces her influences. Uncover what drove Vari
to become an artist and hear personal words from the artist herself that best
explain her inspirations.
sculpture. Not content with being a painter, she experimented with the
three-dimensional realm, first sculpting in bronze, then in marble, and
recently in the precious and semiprecious mediums of jewelry design. Vari has
also uncovered the powerful effects of her classical polychrome forms in
monumental scale. In her work, she has been able to integrate the mental and
the physical, cerebral and sensual, planar and volumetric-giving life,
elegance, and joy to a medium that can often be static.
This lavish book contains new, never-before-seen work from the Greek artist.
From Sculpture to paintings, this book explores Vari's work through every
medium throughout her career and traces her influences. Uncover what drove Vari
to become an artist and hear personal words from the artist herself that best
explain her inspirations.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Dimensions
Height: 305 mm
Width: 229 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-943876-31-0 (9781943876310)
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Carter Ratcliff is a poet, art critic, and contributing editor of Art in America. His writings on art have been published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Guggenheim Museum; the Royal Academy, London; Maxxi Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, and many other institutions. He has contributed to the leading journals of the United States and Europe, including Art in America, Art Forum, ArtNews, Arts, Tate, and Art Presse, as well as Vogue, Elle, and New York magazine. His books include The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art, Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art, and monographs on Andy Warhol, John Singer Sargent, Georgia O'Keeffe, Gilbert & George, and many others. Among his books of poetry are Fever Coast, Give Me Tomorrow, and Arrivederci, Modernismo. His first novel, Tequila Mockingbird, was published in 2015. He lives in Hudson, New York.
Paola Gribaudo has published numerous original works and art catalogs by some of the foremost artists, architects, and writers of our time. She lives in Turin, Italy.
Paola Gribaudo has published numerous original works and art catalogs by some of the foremost artists, architects, and writers of our time. She lives in Turin, Italy.