Michael Warren: Light, Gravity and Distance - Softcover

Murray, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0946641099 ISBN 13: 9780946641093

Publisher: Gandon Editions, 2002

Synopsis

Born in Wexford in 1950, Michael Warren is one of Ireland’s best-known sculptors. He uses traditional materials within a contemporary abstract framework to produce works which have a sense of calm and grandeur. This book beautifully illustrates his work over a period of thirty years. It also features an in-depth and fascinating essay on the life of the sculptor. Although clearly concerned with formal Modernist qualities such as texture, surface, weight equilibrium and balance, at the core of Michael Warren’s art lies something far less tangible – an examination of what it means for human beings to be in the world ... a straightforward appreciation of Warren’s sculptures requires no special skill because their quality in purely formal terms is more than enough to sustain them as considerable works of art. They have a simple, powerful and meditative quality. (Peter Murray) ‘While you may not be sure what it stands for, you cannot miss the fact that it stands its ground. It makes a thing of itself, and in so doing it helps to consolidate something in ourselves ... The longer this artwork of Michael Warren’s stands here, the stronger it will appear as a shrine to energy and endurance ... It gives us a wonderful, mysterious sense of crossing a threshold and going through a gateway, getting deeper into where we are and what we are.’ — Séamus Heaney, unveiling Antaeus at Devil’s Glen

Edition details

• Publisher: Gandon Editions
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0946641099
• ISBN 13: 9780946641093
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88