Alexander Archipenko Biography
Master Ukranian sculptor linked to the CUBIST movement in the early twentieth century. Archipenko´s work uses the human figure a platform for analysing volume, space and geometric planes.
Like Naum Gabo in the United States and Henry Moore in the United Kingdom, Archipenko began to look beyond scultpure´s solid forms, concluding that spaces and voids are as important as solid mass. His experiments with these ‘antivolumes’, realised using materials that allowed him to achieve effects such as transparency and reflection, placed Archipenko at the vanguard of modern art.
Archipenko studied in Kiev and moved to Paris in 1908 after a brief period in Moscow. Much of his work was destroyed in the First World War, and in the mid 1920s he relocated to the United States where his work continued to influence the development of sculpture in both Europe and America.
Archipenko´s work can be found in numerous MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS including:
- Guggenheim Museum
- National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
- North Carolina Museum of Art
- Addison Gallery of American Art, Massachusetts
- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
- San Antonio Art League Museum, Texas
- San Diego Museum of Art, California
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
- Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt
- Tate Gallery, London
- Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel.
Selected Articles
Alexander Archipenko
Milwaukee Art Museum, 2004
ART IN REVIEW; Alexander Archipenko
The New York Times, May 5, 2000
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