Liz Glynn, Untitled (Burgher with extended arm), 2014, bronze, sculpture: 70 x 26 x 23 1/4 in. (177.8 x 66 x 59.1 cm), pedestal: 4 x 28 x 28 in. (10.2 x 71.1 x 71.1 cm). © Liz Glynn. Courtesy Watermill Center. Photo: Chloé Bellemère.
The Watermill Center, Water Mill, New York
Ongoing
Bronze sculptures from Glynn’s series The Myth of Singularity (2014) are on long-term view at The Watermill Center. The work emerged through a process-driven investigation of the work of Auguste Rodin, and seeking a new path forward through action and fragmentation. It is also a result of the first of a cycle of performances entitled, [de]lusions of Grandeur, held throughout 2013 that responded to monumental sculptures in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
For these bronze figures, Glynn recreated Rodin’s atelier process by taking molds in sections from the museum’s Rodin bronzes and combining the various fragments to produce new and complete bodies. Bearing drips, smears, and finger markings – evidence of the performance from which they result – the works retain a sense of temporality and fragmentary construction, honoring Rodin’s practice of “cannibalizing his own oeuvre.”