Leila Heller Dubai hosts artist Mia Fonssagrives Solow s works
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Leila Heller Gallery Dubai showcases artworks in New York s Armory Show
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What will become of a tycoon s art gems?
Real estate developer Sheldon Solow with his son, Stefan Soloviev, in New York, March 8, 2018. Its the art worlds new guessing game: Will Solows paintings and sculptures, conservatively valued at $500 million, be heading to a private museum or to auction? George Etheredge/The New York Times.
by Katya Kazakina
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- In an apartment high above Manhattan, paintings by van Gogh, Matisse and Modigliani overlooked the East River and tribal artworks and Egyptian antiquities mingled with Giacometti bronzes and furniture. Several blocks west, a monumental Miró bronze stood guard by a skyscraper known for its sloping glass facade and masterpieces inside.
Leila Heller Gallery presents a retrospective of sculpture by Mia Fonssagrives Solow
Fonssagrives Solow s other most influential body of work, Aliens, is comprised of figurative sculptures made of polished bronze and aluminum, which explore the nature of artificial intelligence.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Leila Heller Gallery is presenting the exhibition Mia Fonssagrives Solow. A dynamic retrospective of sculpture by Fonssagrives Solow, the eponymous show surveys the artists iconic works, from seminal abstract forms cast in bronze or carved from wood to her most recent bronze and aluminum aliens and monumental fiberglass forms.
On one side of Fonssagrives Solows work is her uplifting Forms series, examining the simplicity of scale and movement, form and color. The curving surfaces of each piece draw the eye from one exquisite line to the next, as everyday objects, such as a sail or an apple, are refined to simply the clean, essential lines of their form. What begins as a small lucite or