Mica Metal Flower Stone (1984-85)

Liliane Lijn

mica, sand-cast aluminium, slate

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

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Classification:

Sculpture

Materials:

Mica, Aluminium, Slate

Dimensions:

18 x 40 x 50 (overall) cm

Accession Number:

27.1998.a-c

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1989

Scheme:

Historic Purchase by Purchaser (1914-2008)

Ownership history:

Purchased from Fischer Fine Art, London by Alan Roger for the Contemporary Art Society, March 1987; presented to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1989

Relationship:

Fischer Fine Art, London Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Mica Metal Flower Stone (1984-5) is a union of two different areas of experimentation in Lijn’s work. In the late 1970’s Lijn made a series of clay forms roughly based on stones but also more importantly concerned with holding and feeling. In 1981 she cast them into bronze and aluminium. A couple of years later Lijn began to use leaves of natural mica, stacking them onto springs or cores of wire to form mobile and changeable organic shapes. Seeing these two entirely different forms together gave Lijn the idea of putting them together. The mica flower embracing the metal stone.

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