DAVID GILBERT

SCULPTOR

“March 10th” 1964 Burnt Pine 185x46x46cm

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“March 10th” 1964 Burnt Pine 185x46x46cm

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“Pierced Screen” February 1963 Red padauk, 79 x 36 x 7.5 cm

“Study for a Cross II” 1963 Larch (burnt), 68.5 cm high

“March 10th” 1964 Burnt Pine 185x46x46cm

“Manpiece 1” 1965 Greenheart 162x31x31cm

“Manpiece 1” (detail)

“Man Kit” 1965 Afzelia 98 x 31 x 9.5cm

“Balancing Man” 1974 Lignum Vitae and brass 71x30cm

“Laburnum 3 Piece” 1974 Oiled Laburnum 22x75x25cm

“The Three Graces” 1976 creosoted Balsa 32 x 16cm

“Yew Couple” 1979 Yew 13x23x13cm

“Heisenberg at Heligoland” 1981 Sycamore 21x28x12cm

“The Maze Shed” 1981 Yew and Slate 75x38x38cm

“In the Presence of (Mountain Hares)” 1982-84 various woods 225x300x65cm

“In the Presence of (Mountain Hares)” (detail)

“In the Presence of (Head)” 1982-84 various woods on Marble 36x53x25cm

“In the Presence of (Hopi)” 1983-86 Yew, marble ball, on worked slate base 360 x 150 x 20cm

“Cut-out Maquette” 1984 red ochred plyboard, black dyed edges 34 x 21 x 14cm

“The Impossible Bundle” (relief) 1984-89 burnt and ochred Iroko 26x61x7cm

“Coupled” 1985 Sycamore 16x7x6cm

“Burned figure” 1986 Burnt Sycamore 28x8x5cm

“Crossing Open Ground” (pierced relief) 1992 Sapele with ochre and charcoal 61x93x8cm

“The Lost Ones” 1993-94 cane, plywood, wire, acrylic sheet, Balsa 48x43x43cm

“Balancing Act” 1999 dyed plywood and slate 73 x 37 x 22cm

“Lignum 3” 2001-03 Lignum Vitae on Greenheart base 120 x 152 x 38cm

“Lignum 7” 2006-07 Lignum Vitae on slate base 60 x76 x 46cm

“Lignum 8” 2009-10 Lignum Vitae on slate base 60 x 66 x 66cm

“Ball on Stool” 2010 Oak, Pitch Pine and leather 55 x 53 x 36cm

“Four Grooves and a Hole” 2011 coloured Oak relief 32.5 x 32.5 x 4.5cm

“Lignum 9” 2012 Lignum Vitae on slate 56x60x21cm

Description

This sculpture was a seminal attempt to show complexity in a single carving. The intention to show this complexity metamorphosed from “March 10th”, through the juxtaposing of several carvings in one piece such as the “In the Presence Of” series, eventually into “What is the Case”.

Click here for a slideshow of different aspects of this piece.