Next Departure 1979
George SEGAL (U.S.A./1924-U.S.A./2000)
plaster, metal, plastic, wood, paper and vinyl
222x183x283cm |
Three figures clutching
their luggage stand at the boarding gate waiting to get on a bus about
to depart. Segal's sculptures, which pick up and present singular
moments from mundane life in American society, seem to reveal the
feeling of isolation and the anxieties of urban residents, hidden
behind the glittering world of consumer culture. Segal became famous
in the early 1960s for his environmental type of sculpture, created
from plaster casts, which were taken directly from live human models
and then combined with actual props and materials to replicate actual
people. All his life, Segal reflected on the everyday life of ordinary
human beings around him, capturing in his works a single moment in
their individual dramas.
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