Barbara Hepworth - Art & Life - Fondation Maeght - France

Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life invites the visitor on a journey from the modernist carving that launched Hepworth’s career in the 1920s and 1930s, through the iconic strung sculptures of the 1940s and 1950s, to her later large-scale commissions. This exhibition reveals how she integrated music, dance, science, space exploration, politics and religion, as well as events in her personal life, into her work, creating a singular vision of art and life.

Starting from her roots in Yorkshire, a detailed look at Hepworth’s childhood in Yorkshire through archive material and photographs will include some of the artist’s earliest-known paintings, carvings and life drawings as she began to explore movement and the human form. A proponent of direct carving, Hepworth combined an acute sensitivity to the organic materials of wood and stone with the development of a radical new abstract language of form. On display will be Carving 1932, the earliest existing ‘pierced form’ of Hepworth, which is rarely publicly exhibited, on special loan here from a private collection. Go to Website

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