PETER KIRKILES SCULPTURE

PETER KIRKILES SCULPTURE

  • Rules
    • - 6 Ft Six Fold
    • La Regle D'or
    • Sentinel
    • - Balanced Rule
    • Kouros Maquette
    • Reclining Rule
    • - Aluminum Rule
    • - Rule Suite
  • Levels
  • Planes
  • Featured Works
    • - Calder's Pliers
    • Kouros
    • - Whistle
    • Double Bass Scroll
    • Field Level Bench
    • - Land, Sea, Air
    • - John O'Hara's Shoe
    • - Ithaca Tall Clock
    • - Telephone Co. Property
    • - Beading Plane
    • - Red Truck
    • - Pullman Great Republic
    • - Luxus Camera
    • - Charm Bracelets
    • - Pie Crust Table
  • Misc.
  • Printmaking
  • CV
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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