PETER KIRKILES

PETER KIRKILES

  • Featured works
    • - 34 Foot Aluminum Rule
    • - Pullman Great Republic
    • - Pie Crust Table
    • - Red Truck
    • - Beading Plane
    • - Ithaca Tall Clock
    • Kouros
    • - Charm Bracelets
    • - Balanced Rule
    • - Telephone Co. Property
    • - Kouros Maquette
    • - Folding Ruler Star
    • - 6 Ft Six Fold
    • - Land, Sea, Air
    • - Reclining Rule
    • - Calder's Pliers
    • - Luxus Camera
    • - John O'Hara's Shoe
    • - Whistle
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Mattatuck Museum exhibit sculpture Bernard Pliers
2016
Bronze
36" x 6" x 24"

Bernard Pliers Sculpture:


Inspired by a letter written by sculptor Alexander Calder to Robert Munger, the head of the industrial supply store that supplied tools to the artist, Peter Kirkiles researched and found the types of tools Calder used. Now Kirkiles, using documents, ephemera and photographs of the pliers Calder used most often, has created a large-scale sculpture of the tool Calder bought by the caseload – Bernard pliers. The installation of the sculpture includes photographs and archives linking sculpture of the 1950s with that of today.


- Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT

November 6, 2016 - December 3, 2017

Exhibition link


Curated by Cynthia Roznoy