Unique Sculpture – Untitled
Conrad Marca-Relli
- Artist
- Conrad Marca-Relli
- Title
- Unique Sculpture – Untitled
- Date
- 1968
- Medium
- painted metal and plaster
- Dimensions
- 18 1/8 × 12 1/2 × 5 1/8 inches (46 × 31.8 × 13 cm)
- Tags
- Sculpture
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Dwight H. Emanuelson.
- Accession Number
- 1999.13.2
Conrad Marca-Relli was born in Boston to Italian parents in 1913. Well-travelled and educated at the Cooper Union Institute in New York, he also served in the Army during World War II. In New York, Marca-Relli was a founding member of the Eighth Street Club along with other early primary figures of the Abstract Expressionist movement.
Marca-Relli believed abstraction should be emotionally moving, and he used psychologically affecting shapes and textures to evoke emotions. Marca-Relli took a constructive approach to image-making, building up surfaces by cutting out and applying shapes to canvas or metal supports. Marca-Relli is best-known for elevating the status of collage in art to its current status, where it now carries its own formal and emotive qualities.
Marca-Relli believed abstraction should be emotionally moving, and he used psychologically affecting shapes and textures to evoke emotions. Marca-Relli took a constructive approach to image-making, building up surfaces by cutting out and applying shapes to canvas or metal supports. Marca-Relli is best-known for elevating the status of collage in art to its current status, where it now carries its own formal and emotive qualities.
