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Barry X Ball

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Barry X Ball, Portrait of Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, 2007-2011

Barry X Ball

Portrait of Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, 2007-2011
Belgian Black Marble
34 x 16.2 x 18.1 in 34 x 16.2 x 18.1 cm
Copyright Barry X Ball 2020
Full title: The artist, taking the life-cast head of his former New York gallerist as a jumping-off point, in a concerted effort to reinvigorate the sub-genre of romantic portrait sculpture,...
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The artist, taking the life-cast head of his former New York gallerist as a jumping-off
point, in a concerted effort to reinvigorate the sub-genre of romantic portrait sculpture,
has here conjoined his signature fever-pitch execution intensity and a newfound conceptual tenderness. Realized as a mirror-image of the subject, at 85% scale,
in the renowned, uniquely un-figured black marble known as ‘Belge Noir’, exhibiting a layered surface suffused with a ‘sfumato’ overlay of foliate relief and coincident
miniscule diagonal / radial flutes, the stony surrogate captures, in soft Galatean contravention of its obdurate materiality, a moment of poignant reverie. The artist- designed integral / modular base / pedestal unit, its tapering parabolic sweep flowing
into the sculpture’s mirror-polished flute stem (which, in turn, terminates in a
silhouetted arboreal fringe), conceived in parallel with the sculpture, precisely-
fabricated in stainless steel, limestone, acrylic-spray-lacquered aluminum and wood (and a variety of subsidiary materials) by a studio-coordinated consortium of disparate fabricators, is reminiscent, alternately, at its apex, of traditional ‘socles’ and mid-20th-century Modernist furniture pedestals. The resultant deceptively-diminutive ensemble, created with deep reverence for and specific focus on the history of sculpture, makes an expansive case
for the critical reconsideration of prevailing contemporary practice, while simultaneously probing both the subject’s psychology and her complex relationship to the artist.
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