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Concrete Modern Abstract Outdoor Monumental Contemporary Sculpture > click image to enlarge
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" Concrete Sculpture" 1989-1990 a
The majority of Concrete Abstract Sculpture on this page are Outdoor Monumental Sculpture. They ranged from tallest 14 -16 feet tall to 8 feet tall on the Monolithic Abstract Sculpture which is ascending from the Cube. The Cube is a excellent volume for a Minimal Abstract Sculpture, however I have chosen to elongate the Cube into a Rectangle because the proportions are less blocky and more elegant. All these works have four corners like a cube but have been revised into Modern Abstract Sculpture with warped planes and opposing formed edges in Stainless Steel. The Stainless Steel edges protected the corners from being chipped and worked with interior reinforcement made of .50 inch steel rebar which the molds are clamped to using the stainless steel corners as guides. The molds are creating warped planes by bridging different opposing shaped edges. The molds were quite elaborate in that they were made from Formica laminated on plywood thin enough yet strong enough to bend and take the pressure of the concrete poured inside which vibrated to remove air bubbles and pack the concrete formula to a maximum density for a high quality finish and strong PSI essential for a strong Concrete Modern Contemporary Sculpture. Formica is laminated to the interior of the molds which yields a glass like surface that when vibrated removes air bubbles and creates a sleek smooth surface almost resembling polished stone or grey marble. I dont think the viewers of these Abstract Sculptures realizes the amount of labor that goes into creating these Abstract Modern Sculpture. They took a minimum of 6-8 weeks working daily to complete and required a fork lift to place the larger Modern Abstract Sculptures on top of their Massive Steel Pedestals. The show was my secound concrete series and I perfected some flaws that occurred in my first Concrete Columns from 1970’s. It was a labor of love for the materials to create these concrete sculptures and improve on earlier structural designs and molds. I begin using warped planes rather than formal facets of straight geometry. This Show was exhibited at the Jan Turner Gallery in West Hollywood, CA. in 1990. The 2 tallest works from this series found their home in Manzanillo, Mexico and were used at the entrance of a High End Beach Resort owned by by The Sea Horse Corporation which has now expanded inland to approximates between San Miguel Allende and Guanajuato on massive 3,000 acre site. |