Post by diane9247 on Apr 12, 2015 9:51:47 GMT
Turkish artist Ali Acerol was born in Bursa in 1948. He grew up in Istanbul, then was educated at the Sorbonne, in Paris. Acerol said that his earliest memories were of taking walks with his father in Istanbul and noticing old brick walls. He continued his fine arts education in 1975 at CalArts in southern California. Acerol died in Los Angeles, California in February, 2007, at age 58. He had a modest career by international art standards and was little known outside the Los Angeles art scene, but his work was highly original. He was a painter, poet and sculptor and probably best known for delightful works of carved, mortared brick. The forms are chunky, earthy, earnest and amusing. The brick sculptures are rough, whimsical representations of everyday things, such as the hand and shoes pictured below. His furniture pieces, for which he received commissions, weigh up to 500 pounds, yet have a warm and welcoming look. He said he enjoyed working with brick because of its humble, universal nature. Source
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...Ali Acerol's sculptures can be sat upon, and, surprisingly, they are very comfortable. But you'll get more out of them if you study them by looking, or better, by touching them. Brick, the most ancient and primitive building material known to mankind, is transformed by the artist into a seemingly receptive, pliable substance. Macho rectangular shapes of bricks slowly, grudgingly reveal its hidden feminine voice and transforms itself into furniture with soft and voluptuous contours. With furniture like that around the house, who needs friends? Review and above photo, 2002.
Ali Acerol: Three-Story Man in a One-Story Town, published in 2006, is a collection of autobiograhical material, poetry and photos of his work. Los Angeles art critic Richard Hertz wrote affectionately of Acerol in his The Beat and the Buzz: Inside the L.A. Art World, published in 2009.
Birthplace of Ali Acerol.kmz (1.17 KB)
photo...Ali Acerol's sculptures can be sat upon, and, surprisingly, they are very comfortable. But you'll get more out of them if you study them by looking, or better, by touching them. Brick, the most ancient and primitive building material known to mankind, is transformed by the artist into a seemingly receptive, pliable substance. Macho rectangular shapes of bricks slowly, grudgingly reveal its hidden feminine voice and transforms itself into furniture with soft and voluptuous contours. With furniture like that around the house, who needs friends? Review and above photo, 2002.
Ali Acerol: Three-Story Man in a One-Story Town, published in 2006, is a collection of autobiograhical material, poetry and photos of his work. Los Angeles art critic Richard Hertz wrote affectionately of Acerol in his The Beat and the Buzz: Inside the L.A. Art World, published in 2009.
Birthplace of Ali Acerol.kmz (1.17 KB)
