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Details
- Date
- 1965
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- bronzed steel
- Dimensions
- 131 x 67 x 52.5 cm
- Signature & date
I K inscribed on base plate
- Credit
- Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program Gift by the artist 2015
- Location
- South Building, ground level, 20th-century galleries
- Accession number
- 279.2015
- Copyright
- © Estate of Inge King
- Artist information
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Inge King
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About
Originally a carver, much of Inge King’s early work was made from wood, sandstone, marble and alabaster. Around 1960 she began to work in welded steel assemblage, and her abstract forms became even more experimental. Captive, in bronzed steel, features steel rods which form a cage around a central ‘figure’. King was interested in exploring the enclosed spaces within her sculpture, as well as the space in which the sculpture sits – of utmost importance in her large public works. The welded seams and surfaces were created with an arc welder for ‘decorative effect’ in an attempt to offset the austerity of large surfaces of flat steel, as well as to offset the perceived notion of steel as a cold, sharp material, a notion widely held by the public at that time.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 4 exhibitions
Centre five: Contemporary sculpture (1965), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Oct 1965–24 Oct 1965
Inge King: works from the studio 1940s-2013, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, Collingwood, 04 Aug 2013–10 Sep 2013
Inge King: Constellation, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 01 May 2014–31 Aug 2014
20th-Century galleries, ground level (rehang), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Aug 2022–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 6 publications
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Centre Five: contemporary sculpture, Sydney, 1965, n.pag.. cat.no. 6
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Jane Eckett, Inge King: Constellation, 'Binary star: Inge and Graeme King', pg. 6-22, Melbourne, 2014, 16, 55 (colour illus.), 129.
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Judith Trimble, MacMillan mini-art series no. 10, Inge King, 'Inge King: small sculptures and maquettes', pg. 7-67, South Yarra, 2009, 21.
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Judith Trimble, Inge King sculptor, ‘Welded steel and abstract expressionism’, pg. 31-64, Sydney, 1996, 53, 102-103, 199.
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Judith Trimble, MacMillan mini-art series no. 10, Inge King, 'Inge King: small sculptures and maquettes', pg. 7-67, South Yarra, 2009, 21.
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Jenny Zimmer, Inge King: sculpture 1945-1982, a survey, 'Introduction', pg. 5-20, Melbourne, 1982, 10.
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