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  • Book cover of Rita McBride
  • Book cover of Rita McBride
  • Book cover of Rita McBride
  • Book cover of Urban Visions
  • Book cover of Oferta pública

    Catálogo de la exposición de esta artista Norte Americana en el MACBA donde su intervención reflexiona sobre la arquitectura del espacio público A primera vista, la obra de Rita McBride (Des Moines, Estados Unidos, 1960) puede resultar inquietante, esculturas e instalaciones en las que reconocemos objetos cotidianos: máquinas, gradas, tuberías, incluso torres de agua. Elementos, todos ellos, fáciles de reconocer y que nos transportan a un mundo estandarizado, en el que la propia repetición establece un código que facilita su comprensión. Una familiaridad con la forma que se ve alterada por los materiales utilizados: un coche hecho de rafia, una tubería de mármol o unas hojas de ficus modeladas en cristal de Murano; materiales inesperados que aumentan aún más esa sensación de desconcierto y que nos llevan, como espectadores, a querer reflexionar sobre su significado.

  • Book cover of General growth

    Rassemble des oeuvres de l'artiste américaine contemporaine, mettant en relation plusieurs domaines artistiques : sculpture, architecture et design.

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  • Book cover of Rita McBride
    Rita McBride

     · 2010

    Rita McBride presents an independent and outstanding position in the field of new sculpture. In her mostly space-invasive installations, she takes up the formal vocabulary of design and architecture, where she problematises the interplay and contradiction between function and representation.

  • Book cover of Rita McBride

    The American artist Rita McBride (born 1960) has built an international reputation for producing sculptures that initially appear to be abstract geometric forms, but which on closer inspection prove to be derived from everyday objects and structures such as cars, towers and architectural items. McBride is concerned not only with sculptural objects, but with the situations and setting that arise from them, through performances, texts and their civic utility. Public sculpture lies at the heart of her practice, and this volume--the first major survey of McBride's career--addresses a body of work spanning almost 20 years, collecting insightful commentary and over 300 photographs of her monumental sculptures and installations.