ARTIST:

Peter Coffin

Sculpture Silhouette Prop (N. de St. Phalle ‘Snake Tree’ 1964)
Peter Coffin
Untitled (Unfinished Hand)
Peter Coffin
Untitled (Unfinished Hand)
Peter Coffin

Often using art history as a departure point for his surreal reinventions, Peter Coffin’s work engages with pre-conceptions about cultural ideals to challenge established perception and interpretation. Taking the form of a giant hand leaning happy-go-lucky against a plinth, Coffin’s Untitled (Unfinished Hand) humorously personifies the tropes of traditional sculpture. Reconfiguring the idealism of modernist art where material purity and the authority of the artistic gesture were held sacrosanct, Coffin monumentalizes the ‘integrity of the artist’s hand’ in wooden planks and wire mesh – the bare bones stuff of modelling.

Untitled (Spiral Staircase)
Peter Coffin
Untitled (Spiral Staircase)
Peter Coffin
Untitled (Spiral Staircase)
Peter Coffin
Untitled (Spiral Staircase)
Peter Coffin
Untitled (Spiral Staircase)
Peter Coffin

Coffin’s Untitled (Spiral Staircase) takes the idea of a simple architectural fitting to an absurd extreme. Reminiscent of Escher’s Infinite Staircase, Coffin’s winding steps are moulded into a circle, inexhaustibly twisting in impossible logic made real. By remodeling the steps, Coffin strips the staircase of its function, turning a thing which is normally engaged with physicality into a dizzying conceptual game. Through his humorous constructions, Coffin bridges art history and everyday experience, subverting the preconceptions of both.

Around, About Expanded Field (Sculpture Silhouette Props)
Peter Coffin
Around, About Expanded Field (Sculpture Silhouette Props)
Peter Coffin
Around, About Expanded Field (Sculpture Silhouette Props)
Peter Coffin
Around, About Expanded Field (Sculpture Silhouette Props)
Peter Coffin
Around, About Expanded Field (Sculpture Silhouette Props)
Peter Coffin
Around, About Expanded Field (Sculpture Silhouette Props)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (J. Dubuffet ‘Group of Four Trees’ 1969-72)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (L. Clark ‘Raw Cubismo’ 1969)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (J. Arp ‘Seuil Configuration’ 1977)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (R. Indiana ‘Love’ 1966)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (D. Smith ‘Voltri VIII’ 1962)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (P. Voulkos ‘Jupiter’ 1994)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (G. Anselmo ‘Untitled (Structure That Eats Itself)’ 1968)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (‘Venus of Willendorf’ 28,000 BC)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (Y. Klein ‘Blue Sponge’ 1959)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (J. Beuys ‘Fat Chair’ 1963)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (M. Puryear "Lever#3" 1989)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (M. Di Suvero ‘Aurora’ 1992-1993 )
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (B. Newman ‘Broken Obelisk’ 1963-69)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (R. Rauschenberg ‘monogram’ 1955-9)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (A. Calder ‘La Grande Vitesse’ 1969)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (B. Nauman ‘Untitled (Model for Trench Shaft and Tunnel)’ 1978)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (G. Bernini ‘the Ecstasy of St. Teresa’ 1645-1652)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (Easter Island Head)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (A. Rodin ‘The Thinker’ 1880)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (L. Nevelson ‘Drum’ 1976)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (J. Tinguely ‘Variation IV’ 1966)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (S. Le Witt ‘Incomplete Cube’ 1974)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (U. Boccioni ‘Unique Forms of Continuity in Space’ 1913)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (Cesar ‘Cesar’s Thumb’ 1967)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (R. Serra ‘One ton prop’ 1969)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (J. Koons ‘Rabbit’ 1986)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (A. Giacometti ‘Diego’ 1960)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (C. Brancusi ‘Endless Column’ 1935-38)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (A. Caro ‘Sculpture Three’ 1961)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (M. Ernst ‘Capricorn’ 1948)
Peter Coffin
Sculpture Silhouette Prop (K. Armitage ‘People in the Wind’ 1950)
Peter Coffin
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