Matthew Ronay: The Crack, the Swell, an Earth, an Ode

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Author: Ronay, MatthewThe wooden sculptures of Matthew Ronay cull from the vocabularies of organic things – flora and fauna from land and sea, human anatomy and water systems. Fant astical architectures find form in the artist’s technicolour array of soft-curved and intricately honed formations. Produced in conjunction with an exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center, this monograph presents Ronay's sensual and psychedelic sculptures in extensive detail through photographs and installation views.Melding vocabularies of modernist abstraction and ritualistic objects, Ronay's sculptures and enigmatic installations express the primacy of the handmade object. His inspirations constitute a zigzagging thread of artists and scientists from the 18th century to the present whose works reflect natural phenomena consciously or unconsciously. Ronay also proposes the possibility that inherited memories of the genesis and evolution of life recapitulate themselves in abstract works of sculpture and painting.ISBN 9781941366455. Gregory R. Miller & Co./Nasher Sculpture Center. hb. 256 pages. 29 x 22 cm.available to order Show more