Eclipse
By Charles Arnoldi
Category: Sculpture
About
Eclipse is a quirky, double-oval-shaped bronze sculpture with “Giacometti-esque” elongation. Each hollowed-out, walnut shape employs the hand of the artist, as frantic finger trails are embedded into the surface. Quasi-figurative in form and scale, Eclipse refers in both concept and composition to Arnoldi’s painting practice, literally documenting the trace of his hand. This work illustrates Arnoldi’s sensitivity to surface, gestural movement, organic pattern, the play between positive and negative space and the ongoing investigation and invention of his own vocabulary of forms.
Eclipse is currently loan to the Lambert International Airport for five years as part of the Lambert Art & Culture Program.
*Description courtesy of Laumeier Sculpture Park.
Dimensions: 8′
Year Completed: 1990
Material: Cast bronze
About the artist:
Charles Arnoldi
Charles Arnoldi was born in 1946 in Dayton, Ohio. He studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles in 1968. During his studies, he received the Los Angeles County Museum of Art talent award. Arnoldi began exhibiting his work in 1970 in the United States and soon after began exhibiting his work internationally. He has had one-person and group exhibitions at institutions including the Seattle Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Korea. Arnoldi’s works are in collections at the Art Institute of Chicago; the Denver Art Museum; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington; and the Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain.
*Biography courtesy of Laumeier Sculpture Park.
