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New Work by French Sculptor Ingrid Donat at Barry FriedmanNew work by contemporary French sculptor Ingrid Donat will be on view at Barry Friedman Ltd, February 21 through March 15, 2008.
The exhibition will feature Donat's richly textured, limited edition, cast bronze furniture.
An opening reception will be held on February 21st at the gallery's new Chelsea location at 515 West 26th Street.
Donat's aesthetic combines tribal, classical, and Modern sources, recalling the stylistic influences of colonial Africa, Central and South America, and Oceania on French artists and designers of the 1920s and 1930s.
Visible too, are the influences of mentors Sylvia Berndt, a sculptor and companion of Andre Arbus, and Diego Giacometti.
Donat, however, has her own distinctive artistic vocabulary.
"I draw inspiration from the everyday," said Donat. "This inspiration can be naturalistic, mechanistic, industrial, or cultural.
I am inspired by specific surfaces: reptile skin, Samurai armor, tattoos, etc.
My work represents a spiritual evolution, transforming an 'ordinary' object into something more artistic, sophisticated, and refined."
Donat's new furniture pieces are heavily textured and sensuously tactile.
The dark bronze surface of Commode Primitive (2007) recalls a rough, scaly reptilian skin, with rectangular areas of small organically shaped squares highlighting its two deep drawers.
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