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Virtual Curated Galleries Expression
- Balance
- Conflicts in life
- Conversations
- Public Installations
- Visual works
- Figures
- Knots of life
- Organic Forms
- Pondering
- Relationships
Life is a delicate balance.
These wall-like works transform repetition into excitement. Tension emerges from the interlocking forms that extend from the front to the back, generating conflicts through their overlapping effects.
Texture versus form,.
soft versus hard..
Movement, energy, conflict..
Like the patterns of society..
Each form fights for its own individuality,.
as in life itself .
Two people, totally different yet the same. Conversing and working together towards seemingly impossible feats.
Installed at The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Glen Oak, NY.
In 2015, Robin Antar publicly unveiled her most personal creation – a 1,500-pound of Turkish marble transformed into a sculpture carved in memory of her son, David, who passed away at the age of 26.
“The stone, which now weighs 1,000 pounds, has purple veins running through it," said Antar. "When David was young and having a very hard time with life, his ‘secret code’ to me when he needed help was to whisper ‘purple!’ That was also his favorite color when he was around eight years old. I had forgotten all of that when I purchased the stone – but it all came back to me as I worked through the carving.”
I carved a knot because David had a very hard life. The knot represents his pain; but the knot breaks open into a flame, which to me represents life – his soul rising to Heaven. This was an extremely hard thing for a mother to do. But for me, a sculptor, it was also a work of healing.”
David’s Knot in Flames is permanently installed at Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oak, New York where it inspires the patients admitted to their behavioral health center. A tradition among patients is to touch the sculpture for good luck so they would never have to return, a testament to the power behind Antar’s work.
TINTED LIMESTONE WORKS
In 1976, Robin Antar suddenly made a startling discovery -that she was blind in one eye and had been since birth. This condition, retrolental fibroplasia, which she perceives as an extraordinary gift, not only affected her vision but also became an integral tool among the techniques she uses in her artistic process. Images are visualized from the inside out rather than the outside in, with the subject matter drawn from within her immediate line of vision. The interaction between her nose and cheekbone, for example, assumes magnified importance when seen at such close range.
Aesthetic beauty and superficial thought were not her concerns; she focused on fundamental feelings and basic sensations, resulting in sculptures with an uncommon perspective, jarring color, and anomalous form.
Antar plays with texture, ranging from gritty and abrasive to smooth and soft. By using a grid format, she creates shifting planes that abstract the subject matter and add depth to her compositions. Working with tan stones, she carefully selects colors and tints, not for their aesthetic appeal but rather to enhance the overall message of her art. The stark color contrasts in her pieces serve to intensify the planes and create visual tension within the composition of her artwork.
Couples and individuals in movement – their bodies revealing their stories.
There are no Projects
“My youngest son was struggling with drug addiction so I decided to make three knots in his honor, to represent my frustration: D Knot #1, D Knot #2 and D Knot #3. The first D Knot was carved out of a 400-pound piece of watermelon marble, a very hard stone. My newer works reflect universal themes of struggle.”
- Robin Antar
These general abstract works were created without a specific life influence. As the artist meditates in front of the stone, the form is revealed throughout the carving process. The sculptures are named after their completion.
Pondering the next stages of life
Relationships begin,
Two people start out from the same place. Some end up going their own way……
Relationships begin,
Two people start out from the same place. Some end up going their own way……