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DiaporamaTrance
2018
60.0 x 60.0 cm
Postman Cheval's Ideal Palace
Kate McCgwire (1964 –)
Kate McCgwire is a UK sculptor renowned for her mesmerizing feather installations. Exploring themes of movement & transformation, her work has been collected by Charles Saatchi.
Postman Cheval's Ideal Palace (Lyon, France)
Discover Ferdinand Cheval’s ‘Bird on the Source of Life,’ a surreal detail from his incredible Ideal Palace. Explore naïve art architecture & this unique sculpture's story.
For her fanciful sculptures, Kate MccGwire patiently collects millions of feathers, which she gathers together in her studio, recovering them directly from nature or from specialist associations involved with pigeon racing. Using glue, she arranges them in the form of scales, one by one, like strokes of color on a canvas. Trance is a fascinating artwork which plays on the seductive power of feathers (that of jewelry and courtship rituals) to which she adds a certain softness (that of nests, dreamcatchers, and angel
About this artwork
- Title: Trance
- Artist: Kate McCgwire
- Year: 2018
- Original dimensions: 60.0 x 60.0 cm
- Copyright status: Under copyright
- Where to see it: Postman Cheval's Ideal Palace
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