Skull

Skull

Artist
Robert Lazzarini, American, 1965-
Born: New Jersey
Work Locations: Brooklyn, NY
Country
United States
Object
sculpture
Medium
Bone meal, pigment, and resin
Accession Number
2015.643
Credit Line
Gift from Vicki and Kent Logan to the Collection of the Denver Art Museum
Robert Lazzarini (American). Skull. Bone meal, pigment, and resin. Gift from Vicki and Kent Logan to the Collection of the Denver Art Museum. 2015.643.
Dimensions
height: 14 in, 35.5600 cm; width: 3 in, 7.6200 cm; depth: 8 in, 20.3200 cm
Department
Modern and Contemporary Art
Collection
Modern and Contemporary Art

This work is a distorted sculpture of a skull that is cast of bone meal, pigment, and resin. Most of Lazzarini’s sculptures are created from the same materials as the objects they represent. His sculptures trace their lineage back to 1960s minimalism and to the introduction of phenomenology into the discourse of art. As with “Skull,” Lazzarini creates compound distortions of common objects. Because his works generally do not offer an ideal viewing direction, they challenge perception and what we understand to be the limits of the material world. (Pauli Ochi, Beautiful Decay, September 24, 2013)

Robert Lazzarini was born in 1965 in New Jersey. He graduated with his BFA in 1990 from School of Visual Arts, New York, and he currently lives and works in New York City.

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