- Alexander Sokolov
Alexander Sokolov (born
1955 ) is a direct-carving or "taille directe"marble sculptor. He has spent about half his life inSpain , which has led to the distribution of his more central continental style within Iberia. The book "Sokolov" by the renowned Basquepoet andcritic Marrodán is to be found at the libraries of the many SpanishUniversities and "Royal Academies ofFine Art ".The sculptor studied and lived in the studios of Miklos Dallos at his outset in
Paris in the mid-1970s. Sokolov was seen by Marrodán as emanating from the French School of sculpture and there is a chain of teaching influence through Miklos Dallos andMarcel Gimond back toAntoine Bourdelle andAristide Maillol . Sokolov, who in French manner elicits response within the bare subject of thetorso and thenude , as does Dallos, also has, like Gimond, a strength forportraiture .That specification of sculpture as tension of force between the under-lying helicoidal axis and superposed
rhythm of planes in Sokolov is tempered by the artist's choice to work, free from preparatory modelling, in direct-carving. The modernism of the French school of Sculpture developed in modelling but Sokolov's direct-carving is informed by therevolutionary carving influences ofBrancusi and the laterHenry Moore . As aportraitist , Sokolov is unusual as working by "taille directe", but the helicoidal axis teaching informs the majority of his large body of work in thehuman figure and nude. Such movement about the axis would be a continuation of the ItalianArt termed Mannerist.Alexander Sokolov, who has worked between studios in
Ireland and Olula del Rio in Spain, has exhibited seventeen "one man shows" inEurope an cities.External links
* [http://sokolovsculpture.googlepages.com Archive]
* [http://sokolovsculpture.googlepages.com/alexandersokolovbiography Biography]
* [http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery/artist_profile/a/34042.html Live]References
*Mario Ángel Marrodán, "Sokolov: esculturas", La Gran Enciclopedia Vasca, 1993 , link : [http://diana.uca.es/search*spi/X?SEARCH=Marrodan+Sokolov&l=&m=&b=&searchscope=3&Da=&Db=&SORT=D]
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