제임스 앵거스
ジェームスアンガス
詹姆斯·安格斯
جيمس انجوس

Geo Face Distributor

source: gavinbrownbiz

Born 1970, Perth, Australia. Lives New York.

Completed Master of Fine Arts (Sculpture), Yale University School of Art. Completed Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts), Curtin University of Technology.
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source: mca

Born 1970.
James Angus completed a Master of Fine Arts (Sculpture) at Yale University in 1998. He lectures in sculpture and design, and his work has been exhibited and collected in both Australia and overseas. He is currently working on several major public commissions. In 2006, a solo show of his work, James Angus, was held at the MCA before touring to venues in three other Australian states. In his practice, James Angus questions traditional notions and forms of sculpture by playing with surface, scale and volume. His work ranges from the modest to the gigantic, revealing his ongoing interest in materials and process. Inspired by aspects of design, architecture and nature, he often duplicates existing objects, producing work that he has described as ‘blunt and literal’1. Some of his works also manifest distortion, as if subject to physical forces of one kind or another.
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source: artgallerywagovau

James Angus’s finely crafted sculptures apply physical distortions to everyday objects and iconic architectural forms, making them at once familiar and strange to the eye.

Ordinary objects such as a teapot, soccer or basket ball are literally turned inside out, dropped from a great height or expanded to massive scale. Modernist skyscrapers and neo-Gothic castles are inverted or twisted, divided and then realigned in new geometric permutations.

Born in Perth in 1970 and now based between Sydney and New York, Angus references the world of architecture, design and nature as he explores the traditional properties of sculpture – scale, volume and form – to transformative ends.

Curated by MCA Senior Curator Rachel Kent, the exhibition features key works spanning a decade, drawn from Australian and international public and private collections. Also included is a major new sculpture made specifically for the exhibition that takes as its starting point a life-sized model of the legendary 1920s Type B Bugatti racing car. Other works explore the sculptural properties of organic forms: be it the wings and body of a mosquito, a gorilla’s skull or the undulating form of a manta ray as it glides silently through the water.

Angus often uses computer models in the realisation of his works and consults mathematicians, engineers and biologists as part of his research process.
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James Angus is an artist well known for his colourful public art commissions including Geo Face Distributor [fondly referred to as ‘the orange blob’] at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra and the quirky Day in, Day Out which greets city office workers every morning at #1 Bligh Street in Sydney. The sculptures in Angus’s new exhibition continue the artist’s use of wild enamels – bold oranges, reds and yellows dominate, alongside pure blacks and whites. Angus‘s work has often demonstrated his interest in architecture and his statement for this exhibition refers to the ‘form versus function’ debates of the early 20th century. Here, the artist has encouraged his steel I-beams into positions their inventors would not have imagined. Black I-beam knot sits ever so elegantly on its pedestal while the multicoloured I-Beam Sunburst defies its history as the foundation of the first skyscrapers. White Pipe Compression and Orange Pipe Compression are reminiscent of an early-morning yoga class. Angus has transformed compressed steel pipes into objects of feminine beauty. In all of these works the artist has conceived a visual trick between what these objects are and how they appear to the viewer. Like a lot of Angus’s work they’re also entertaining and good fun.
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source: recollections

bright orange concrete and acrylic sculpture Geo Face Distributor by Sydney artist James Angus that gives a playful and much-needed lift to the otherwise blandly good-mannered entrance to the NPG building and is nicely suggestive of the portrait discoveries to be made inside the building itself.
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source: picaorgau

Geo Face Distributor is a subtle exploration of the representation of the human face, with a dynamic and changing physical presence. At first glance, it looks like a lump. But then the faces emerge: cavities link up to form pairs of eyes and mouths, protrusions start to look like noses. And then they might equally disappear and the whole thing collapses back into something unnameable, create a pushing and pulling of focus. The title Geo Face Distributor partly describes this effect but in more prosaic terms. ‘Geo’ refers to the use of geometry to create the surface of the work. It also implies geography and the topography of the earth. ‘Face’ is a prompt for the process of figuration, and ‘Distributor’ refers to the process of mapping those faces onto the sculpture. However the title could equally refer to one of the tasks of a portrait gallery.

James Angus’ practice ranges from domestically-scaled sculptures to large, industrial forms. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Arts), Curtin University of Technology in 1990 before completing a Master of Fine Arts (Sculpture), Yale University School of Art. He has since been exhibiting nationally and internationally for almost two decades and has completed a number of important public sculptures around Australia, including Day in day out, at No. 1 Bligh St in Sydney’s CBD, Geo Face Distributor (2009) situated on the forecourt of the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra and Ellipsoidal Freeway Sculpture (2008) on the ConnectEast Freeway in Victoria. In 2002 the Biennale of Sydney featured Angus’ monumental Shangri-La, a full-sized hot-air balloon suspended upside down inside the Sydney Opera House. James Angus is represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney