The Blanton Museum of Art will present "She-Wolf + Lower Figs.," an installation by sculptor Lily Cox-Richard, in the Contemporary Project space. The installation is the first of entirely new work made for the Contemporary Project.
The installation responds to the Blanton’s William J. Battle Collection of Plaster Casts. Containing around 70 replicas of ancient Greek and Roman sculptures made in the 19th century, sets of casts like these were once an integral part of artistic training. The Battle Cast Collection is one of the few remaining collections of this kind in the United States and is still used for teaching today.
Cox-Richard’s installation questions the equation of the physical whiteness of classical sculptures and their casts with cultural and aesthetic standards that they were thought to embody, such as beauty, purity, and taste. Many Greek and Roman marble sculptures were originally polychromed but lost their pigmentation over time. White plaster casts reinforced the myth that these sculptures and the ancient people they represented were all white. Cox-Richard subverts this narrative by adding color to sculptures she made from 3D scans, near-perfect indices of artworks much like plaster casts.
The exhibition will remain on display through December 29.
The Blanton Museum of Art will present "She-Wolf + Lower Figs.," an installation by sculptor Lily Cox-Richard, in the Contemporary Project space. The installation is the first of entirely new work made for the Contemporary Project.
The installation responds to the Blanton’s William J. Battle Collection of Plaster Casts. Containing around 70 replicas of ancient Greek and Roman sculptures made in the 19th century, sets of casts like these were once an integral part of artistic training. The Battle Cast Collection is one of the few remaining collections of this kind in the United States and is still used for teaching today.
Cox-Richard’s installation questions the equation of the physical whiteness of classical sculptures and their casts with cultural and aesthetic standards that they were thought to embody, such as beauty, purity, and taste. Many Greek and Roman marble sculptures were originally polychromed but lost their pigmentation over time. White plaster casts reinforced the myth that these sculptures and the ancient people they represented were all white. Cox-Richard subverts this narrative by adding color to sculptures she made from 3D scans, near-perfect indices of artworks much like plaster casts.
The exhibition will remain on display through December 29.
The Blanton Museum of Art will present "She-Wolf + Lower Figs.," an installation by sculptor Lily Cox-Richard, in the Contemporary Project space. The installation is the first of entirely new work made for the Contemporary Project.
The installation responds to the Blanton’s William J. Battle Collection of Plaster Casts. Containing around 70 replicas of ancient Greek and Roman sculptures made in the 19th century, sets of casts like these were once an integral part of artistic training. The Battle Cast Collection is one of the few remaining collections of this kind in the United States and is still used for teaching today.
Cox-Richard’s installation questions the equation of the physical whiteness of classical sculptures and their casts with cultural and aesthetic standards that they were thought to embody, such as beauty, purity, and taste. Many Greek and Roman marble sculptures were originally polychromed but lost their pigmentation over time. White plaster casts reinforced the myth that these sculptures and the ancient people they represented were all white. Cox-Richard subverts this narrative by adding color to sculptures she made from 3D scans, near-perfect indices of artworks much like plaster casts.
The exhibition will remain on display through December 29.
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