© Ursula von Rydingsvard, 2013-2015, Courtesy Galerie Lelong, New York.
Interpretation
Ursula von Rydingsvard’s nineteen-foot-tall sculpture URODA, commissioned for the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, is the artist’s first sculpture made primarily of copper. Her full-sized maquette, created using stacked, texturized cedar beams shaped with a circular saw, took six months to build. The finished piece—made of more than 3,000 painstakingly hand-hammered copper pieces—was fabricated by the metal artist Richard Webber and a team of skilled craftspeople.
Information
- Title
- URODA
- Object Number
- 2015-6739
- Medium
- Copper, steel, bronze
- Dates
- 2015
- Dimensions
- h. 579.1 cm (228 in.)
- Credit Line
- Princeton University Art Museum. John B. Putnam Jr. Memorial Collection
- Signatures
- Titled, signed, and dated at bottom: URSULA VON RYDINGSVARD / Ursula / 2015 /[copyright] 2015
- Inscriptions
- Inscribed with names of all the studio assistants who were involved with fabrication on top
- Type
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