Manuel Neri :: The Figure in Relief :: Bruce Nixon, Maxwell L. Anderson :: Manuel Neri

Sculpture

February 2007
Hardback
ISBN 13: 9781883124250
ISBN: 1883124255
198 pages
10 x 12 in.
308 x 258 mm.
240 color plates
US $ 65
UK £ 37.50

Manuel Neri

The Figure in Relief
Bruce Nixon, Maxwell L. Anderson

The seemingly endless alterations visited upon his figure, including its participation in the sculptural relief format, demonstrate Neri's sense of his own humaness as active and time-based, subject to change, historically conscious, and once again above all, regenerative.

bruce nixon

This striking publication focuses on relief sculptures and related drawings by Manuel Neri. The extensive body of work is clearly grounded in a long sculptural tradition that stretches back through the Renaissance and Medieval sculpture to ancient architectural sites, and underscores Neri's significance as a sculptor of international note whose works in plaster, ceramic, bronze, and stone have merited him the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center.

Neri has created figurative relief sculpture over a period of twenty-five years. His concern with the dynamic nature of the architectural or spatial environment has developed his keen understanding of its potency as a setting for the figure. His pieces possess incredibly rich and evocative surfaces and his ability to depict the figural form in various media with equal mastery and sensitivity is unrivaled. This publication documents not only reliefs but also more than fifty years of Neri's engagement with the partial figure.

Bruce Nixon is an independent art historian and former editor-in-chief of Artweek. Maxwell L. Anderson is Director and CEO of the Indianapolis Museum of Art.