David Altmejd | Artnet
WEBDavid Altmejd is a contemporary Canadian artist known for his imaginative sculptures of giant human bodies. Employing unconventional materials, including taxidermy, bondage gear, plastic flowers, and faux jewelry, Altmejd creates sculptures that explore complex and symbolic narratives.
David Altmejd - Artist - David Kordansky Gallery
WEBDavid Altmejd (b. 1974, Montreal) explores the constitution and disintegration of the self, producing sculptures that expand the range of figurative representation and conjuring abstract regions beyond the realm of recognizability.
An Interview with David Altmejd | National Gallery of Canada
WEBJan 5, 2015 · David Altmejd has said that he is interested in trying to make objects that feel alive. It is perhaps not surprising, then, that his sculptures are brimming with energy: heads sprouting crystals, werewolves in metamorphosis, and plaster figures that seem to be shaping themselves.
David Altmejd | White Cube
WEBDavid Altmejd. On the occasion of David Altmejd’s exhibition at White Cube Mason’s Yard (2022 – 2023), the artist shares his strategies for generating energy within his sculptures, bestowing them with their own intelligence and multifaceted personality.
David Altmejd » Saatchi Gallery
WEBDavid Altmejd makes large-scale sculptures of anthropomorphic figures cast in a state of metamorphosis. His works explore the boundaries of traditional figuration by embedding his subjects with otherworldly elements and reconceptualizing how to represent the human figure in all its spatial, spiritual and psychological multiplicity.
David Altmejd | Xavier Hufkens
WEBDavid Altmejd (b. 1974, Montreal, Canada) lives and works in Los Angeles. His work was the subject of a major survey exhibition entitled at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France which travelled to the MUDAM in Luxembourg and the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Canada (2014-15).
David Altmejd | National Gallery of Canada
WEBExpressing an interest in metamorphosis and energy, David Altmejd incorporates an array of materials from horse hair and taxidermy animals to mirrors and plaster in his eclectic assemblages.
David Altmejd | National Gallery of Canada
WEBDavid Altmejd was born in Montreal in 1974, but now divides his time between New York and London. He rose to international acclaim early in his career, attracting widespread interest for his series of larger-than-life werewolf sculptures: creatures that seem perpetually caught between becoming and devolving, their bodies spliced with mirrors ...
The Object Looks Back: A Conversation with David Altmejd
WEBOct 18, 2021 · Employing an invented language of the human form that re-articulates heads, hands, ears, limbs, and sexual organs, David Altmejd’s figures present an assemblage of dispersed parts that give the impression of a …
David Altmejd Biography – David Altmejd on artnet
WEBDavid Altmejd (Canadian, b.1974) is a sculptor known for his highly detailed works that play with conceptions of interior and exterior, surface and structure, and representation and abstraction. Born in Montréal, Altmejd attended the Université du Québec à Montréal, and went on to receive his MFA from Columbia University.
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