Evan Penny Hyper Realistic Sculpture

$50,000List Price

About the Item

Evan Penny hyper realistic sculpture made for the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". Medium: Silicone, pigment, hair, aluminium. Provenance: The collection originally came from special effects master Gordon Smith and his FXSMITH studio. He was perhaps best known for bringing the mutants from X-Men to life. His FXSMITH studio employed one of Canada's top sculptors, Evan Penny. Smith retired at the height of his career and sold much of his works to Billy Jamieson - a locally famous dealer and collector of art, artifacts and oddities. The negotiation for the items is actually chronicled on an episode of Jamieson's own reality show - 'Treasure Trader' on History Television. Jamieson himself died of a heart attack in 2011 and his fiancee Jessica Lindsay Phillips sold the FXSMITH items passed down to her. The sculpture comes with multiple photographic proofs of the piece marked as FXSMITH and the Stand the sculpture is on is also marked FXSMITH. About Evan Penny Evan Penny is a conceptually based figurative sculptor and photographer living and working in Toronto, Ontario. Born in South Africa in 1953, Penny immigrated to Canada in 1964. Penny has built an international reputation for his hyper-realist figurative sculptures that capture the Paradox of an unreal reality. Employing traditional as well as contemporary sculpting methods, Penny molds figures out of clay, and then casts his sculptures in resin, bronze or silicone. While his earlier works were largely cast in resin or bronze, Penny's recent works have centered around busts or backs cast in silicone with resin eyes, implanted human hair, and custom-made clothing. Penny's project at large over the past several years investigates the relationship of sculpture to photography and virtual technologies, and the ever changing and unstable boundaries between reality and illusion With meticulous attention to detail and utmost technical precision, Evan Penny‘s sculptures portray human bodies in their true colours, with all their physiognomical features and individual characteristics. His figures, executed with exceptional craftsmanship from layers of silicone and pigments, are hyperrealistic, unsparing portrayals of man which have a commanding presence and exude sensuality despite or maybe because of their pitilessness. And yet the artificiality of the sculptures is obvious. The use of alienation effects such as compression, stretching, twists, distortions or colour errors makes the works reminiscent of photography, TV or digital image processing. In this way he creates anamorphic sculptures that grow out of two-dimensionality, three-dimensional portraits which come across as faulty four-colour prints or distorted sculptures reaching into the fourth dimension of time. When asked to describe his current working phase Evan Penny replied, “I try to situate my sculptures somewhere between two different ways of perceiving ourselves: perception in real time and space and perception in media images“. In these intermediate worlds he creates hybrid beings who overwhelm the viewer by Virtue of the photographic precision of their surfaces and their physical penetration of our living space. They confront us with the deformations of the image of man in our media age. Every sculpture represents a materialized mental experiment that the artist himself describes as follows: “What would happen if I take a distortion of the human body that is “normalized“ in an image context and that we might assume belongs exclusively to the image world, and bring that into the space we physically occupy?“ His works supply us with the answer: a strong emotional reaction full of abysmal horror and insatiable fascination. Curriculum Vitae b.1953 South Africa - Canadian Citizen Studies 1977 to 1978 Alberta College of Art - Post Graduate Sculpture 1971 to 1975 Alberta College of Art - Honours Teaching Positions 1994 to 1997 Toronto School of Art, Toronto 1988 to 1989 Ontario College of Art, Toronto 1986 to 1988 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago 1982 to 1983 Alberta College of Art, Alberta Artist in Residence Emma Lake Artist Workshop, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Snug Harbour Cultural Centre, Staten Island, New York Selected Guest Lectures New York Academy of Art, New York, New York University of Akron, Akron, Ohio Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta University of Toronto (Scarborough College), Toronto Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, British Columbia McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Ontario University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Illinois Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario Selected Solo Exhibitions 2012 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada: Evan Penny RE FIGURED (catalogue) Fall 2012 MARCA, Cantanzaro, Italy: Evan Penny RE FIGURED (catalogue) March to April, 2012 2011 Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria: Evan Penny RE FIGURED (catalogue) November 12 to February 20, 2011 Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany: Evan Penny RE FIGURED (catalogue) June 2 to September 4, 2011 Sperone Westwater, New York: New Work February 25 to March 26, 2011 2009 Sperone Westwater, New York: New Work (catalogue) 2007 Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo: New Work Flint Institute of Art. Flint, Michigan: Currents: Evan Penny Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio: Currents: Evan Penny Birch Libralato Gallery, Toronto: Evan Penny: Photographs 2005 Sperone Westwater, New York City: No One - In Particular (catalogue) The Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario: Absolutely Unreal (catalogue) Prairie Gallery, Grande Prarie, Alberta: Absolutely Unreal (catalogue) 2004 Glenbow Museum, Calgary: Absolutely Unreal (catalogue) Museum London, London Ontario: Absolutely Unreal (catalogue) Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary 2003 Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery: Selections from L. Faux Series 2002 Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary: L. Faux and Others The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto: L. Faux and No One-In Particular Goodwater Gallery, Toronto: L Faux: Tri-X Galeria Segovia Issacs, Barcelona, Spain: No One-In Particular 1999 Galeria Fernando Latorre, Zaragosa, Spain (catalogue) 1998 Galeria Segovia Isaacs, Barcelona, Spain: New Work 1997 Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary: New Work 1996 Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto: Murray, Anamorphs + Body Forms, New Sculpture 1995 Artweek, Calgary (solo exhibition) Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary: Figuring the Body; Three Projects 1993 I Space Gallery, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Chicago: Figuring the Body; Three Projects 1992 Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto: New Sculpture, Installations and Drawings in Wax 1991 Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island: Surface 49th Parallel, New York: Recent Work 1987'88 Six Gallery National Tour: Evan Penny: A Survey 1986'84'82 Wynick/Tuck, Toronto: New Sculpture 1981 Edmonton art Gallery, Edmonton: Recent Work Selected Group Exhibitions 2018 Kunsthal Rotterdam, The Netherlands: RESHAPED REALITY: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture March 2018 to July 2018 2017 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia: RESHAPED REALITY: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture October 20, 2017 to February 18, 2018 ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Denmark: RESHAPED REALITY: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture February 4 to June 11, 2017 2016 Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico: RESHAPED REALITY: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture October 15, 2016 to January 8, 2017 Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Spain: RESHAPED REALITY: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture June 7 to September 26, 2016 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa: Human Scale (working title) March 11 to April 10th, 2016 Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Alberta: Haunting Holbein January 20 to February 27, 2016 2015 Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan: Visual Deception II: Into the Universe 2014 Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan: Visual Deception II: Into the Universe Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona: Lifelike The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Shibuya-ku, Japan: Visual Deception II: Into the Universe Jewish Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany: Haut/ab! (Snip/it!) Trépanier Baer Gallery — Calgary, Alberta: Sculpture 2013 Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas: Lifelike New Orleans Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana: Lifelike The Moving Museum, Gate Village, DIFC, Dubai: Tectonic 2012 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota: Lifelike Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria: The Naked Man McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Australia: Double Vision 2010 Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain: Atopia. Art and the City in the 21st Century The Flag Art Foundation, New York: Evan Penny Size Does Matter 2009 Trépanier Baer Gallery — Calgary, Alberta: Evan Penny Stephan Balkenhol 2008 Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany: Diana and Actaeon, The Forbidden Glimpse of the Naked Body Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto: Transformation AGO inaugural installation 2007 Montréal Biennale, Montréal: Panagiota: Conversation Evan Penny and Michael Awad The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY: All The More Real: Portrayals of Intimacy and Empathy Robilant + Voena + Sperone, London UK: Freeze! A selection of works from a New York Collection 2006 Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland: The Expanded Eye (catalogue) Museum Liner Appenzell, Switzerland: Die Ubere Hälfte The Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut, USA: Subject 2005 Kunsthalle in Emden, Germany: Die Ubere Hälfte Städtische Museen Heilbronn: Die Ubere Hälfte Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art: Figure It Out Vancouver Art Gallery: Real Pictures 2003 Art Gallery of Ontario 2001 Galeria Fernando Latorre, Zaragoza, Spain: Confluencias 1998 I Space, Chicago, Illinois: Warm 1997 Galleria Segovia Isaacs, Barcelona, Spain Wave Gallery, Toronto: Figuratively Speaking Festival Internacional de Arte Ciudad de Medellin, Medellin, Columbia The Power Plant, Toronto: Rococo Tattoo Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga: Loving the Alien 1995 Space Gallery, Chicago: Wink Wink Artweek Calgary, Calgary: Mysteries of the Flesh 1994 Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton: Cracks in the Modern: an exhibition of sculpture 1992 University of Akron, Akron: Figure's Edge 1991 The Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton: Practicing Beauty 1984 Gallery 76, Toronto: The New City of Sculpture Selected Art Fairs 2011 Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy (Sperone Westwater, NYC) Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland (Sperone Westwater, NYC) Hong Kong International Art Fair, Hong Kong (Sperone Westwater, NYC) 2010 Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami (Sperone Westwater, NYC) Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland (Sperone Westwater, NYC) Tefaf Maastricht, Maastricht, Holland (Sperone Westwater, NYC) Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy (Sperone Westwater, NYC) Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne, Australia (Trepanier Baer, Calgary) 2009 Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami (Sperone Westwater, NYC) Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland (Sperone Westwater, NYC) Tefaf Maastricht, Maastricht, Holland (Sperone Westwater, NYC) Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy (Sperone Westwater, NYC) 2008 Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami (Sperone Westwater, NYC) Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland (Sperone Westwater, NYC) Tefaf Maastricht, Maastricht, Holland (Sperone Westwater, NYC) ARCO, Madrid, Spain (Trépanier Baer Gallery, Canada) Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy (Sperone Westwater, NYC) 2007 Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami (Sperone Westwater, NYC) Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland (Sperone Westwater, NYC) Tefaf Maastricht, Maastricht, Holland (Sperone Westwater, NYC) ARCO, Madrid, Spain (Trépanier Baer Gallery, Canada) Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy (Sperone Westwater, NYC) 2006 art.fair, Cologne, Germany (Trépanier Baer, Calgary) Toronto International Art Fair (Trépanier Baer, Calgary) Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland (Sperone Westwater, NYC) Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy (Sperone Westwater, NYC) ARCO, Madrid, Spain (Trépanier Baer, Calgary) 2005 Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami (Sperone Westwater, NYC) Frieze Art Fair, London, U.K. (Sperone Westwater, NYC) Toronto International Art Fair (Trépanier Baer, Calgary) Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland (Sperone Westwater, NYC) Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy (Sperone Westwater, NYC) 2004 Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami (Sperone Westwater, NYC) Frieze Art Fair, London, U.K. (Sperone Westwater, NYC) Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy (Sperone Westwater, NYC) ARCO, Madrid, Spain (Artcore Gallery, Toronto) 2003 FIAC, Paris, France (Artcore Gallery, Toronto) Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami (Artcore Gallery, Toronto) 2000'01'02'03 Toronto International Art Fair (Trépanier Baer, Calgary) Selected Public Collections National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art, USA Flint Institute of Art, Flint, Michigan National Portrait Gallery of Canada Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario Museum London, London Ontario Glenbow Museum, Calgary Alberta Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Ontario Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario Mendall Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan nickel Art Museum, Calgary, Alberta Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario Macdonald Stewart Art Gallery, Guelph, Ontario Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario Selected Public and Corporate Commissions 1995 220 Bay Street, Toronto, Canada: Pi 1992 Hyatt Regency Hotel, Roissy, France City of Waterloo Recreation Centre, Waterloo, Ontario 1989 Donald Forster Sculpture Park, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario.

Creator:
Evan Penny 1 (Artist)
Dimensions:
Height: 16 in (40.64 cm)Width: 12.5 in (31.75 cm)Depth: 11.5 in (29.21 cm)
Place of Origin:
Canada
Period:
20th Century
Date of Manufacture:
2007
Condition:
Seller Location:
Hamilton, CA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU135526299313

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