Swimmers
Mar 10, 2016
Realist sculptor Carole A. Feuerman's human-figure sculptures express a refreshing perspective on the mundane but intensely personal activities of modern life. Swimmers: By Carole A. Feuerman is a shimmering glimpse at transitory, contemplative moments in time, often captured in a veil of clear resin that replicates tumbling water droplets. In this new collection of Feuerman's work, her printwork and treatment of the figure on paper is also explored for the first time.
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contents
artist’s statement 00
“golden mean divina proporzione”By John T. Spike 00
“states of ecstasy”By John Yau 00
plates
sculpture 00
prints 00
chronology 00
selected exhibitions and collections 00
list of plates 00
bibliography 00
photograph credits 00
contents
artist’s statement 00
“golden mean divina proporzione”By John T. Spike 00
“states of ecstasy”By John Yau 00
plates
sculpture 00
prints 00
chronology 00
selected exhibitions and collections 00
list of plates 00
bibliography 00
photograph credits 00
Carole Feuerman’s Golden Mean Divina Proporzione (2013) is a 14-foot stainless steel and epoxy patina sculpture dedicated to Venice, the only city that combines Renaissance art, science, and the sea. An avid fan of the Olympics, Feuerman was inspired by and studied the shapes created by swimmers’ bodies as they dove off the high platform, often from handstands. The parabola the body makes for only a moment resonated in her memory. Golden Mean Divina Proporzione is based on Feuerman’s 14-foot bronze Golden Mean of 2012, which is on permanent exhibition in Riverfront Green Park overlooking the mighty Hudson River in Peekskill, New York.
The golden mean is a beautifully simple piece of mathematics apparently discovered by Pythagoras of Samos and first written down three centuries later in Euclid’s Elements. Euclid called it “extreme and mean proportion.” The golden mean is a ratio between two unequal parts of a quantity, roughly 1:1.6, which means that the smaller part is to the larger part as the larger part is to the whole. This ratio yields an irrational number with infinite decimal places, 1.618… (Phi). The golden ratio is integral to the configuration of pentagrams, sacred to Pythagoras, and other geometric forms, including the parabola.
In 1509 in Venice, mathematician Fra Luca Pacioli published his treatise De divina proportione, with drawings of polyhedral by Leonardo da Vinci. Pacioli called the golden
golden mean divina proporzioneby John T. Spike
Carole Feuerman’s Golden Mean Divina Proporzione (2013) is a 14-foot stainless steel and epoxy patina sculpture dedicated to Venice, the only city that combines Renaissance art, science, and the sea. An avid fan of the Olympics, Feuerman was inspired by and studied the shapes created by swimmers’ bodies as they dove off the high platform, often from handstands. The parabola the body makes for only a moment resonated in her memory. Golden Mean Divina Proporzione is based on Feuerman’s 14-foot bronze Golden Mean of 2012, which is on permanent exhibition in Riverfront Green Park overlooking the mighty Hudson River in Peekskill, New York.
The golden mean is a beautifully simple piece of mathematics apparently discovered by Pythagoras of Samos and first written down three centuries later in Euclid’s Elements. Euclid called it “extreme and mean proportion.” The golden mean is a ratio between two unequal parts of a quantity, roughly 1:1.6, which means that the smaller part is to the larger part as the larger part is to the whole. This ratio yields an irrational number with infinite decimal places, 1.618… (Phi). The golden ratio is integral to the configuration of pentagrams, sacred to Pythagoras, and other geometric forms, including the parabola.
In 1509 in Venice, mathematician Fra Luca Pacioli published his treatise De divina proportione, with drawings of polyhedral by Leonardo da Vinci. Pacioli called the golden
golden mean divina proporzioneby John T. Spike
sculpture
sculpture
Balance, 2012 silicon, 48” x 120”
Balance, 2012 silicon, 48” x 120”
prints
prints
FOLLOWING SPREADS
Serena Prints, 2012Archival inkjet with silkscreen20 x 29”
FOLLOWING SPREADS
Serena Prints, 2012Archival inkjet with silkscreen20 x 29”
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