'Leaf (Feuille)', 1963

Miami Beach 2016
'Leaf (Feuille)'

Galerie Thomas

Sculpture
bronze
106.0 x 23.0 x 18.0 (厘米)
41.7 x 9.1 x 7.1 (吋)
Plaster 1963 / posthumous cast 2006. With monogram and numbered. Edition of 6, numbered 0/5 - 5/5. Arp's keen interest in surrealism led him to join the group 'Abstraction-Création'. First wood reliefs, simultaneous poems and automatic poetry developed from 1917 onward. In Dadaism the artist found an opportunity to create a new art based on the principles of coincidence, automatism and the extension of the subconscious. Arp's aim to depict the continuous transformation of nature was first conveyed in reliefs and works on paper, before he discovered round sculptures in 1929, a medium which enabled him to depict growth and decay in soft, flowing shapes. Arp, who had always been very interested in philosophy and psychology and studied it intensively, achieved a synthesis of Surrealism and Abstraction.