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This 88-inch plaster figure with a handprint in the center of its chest is one of seven to have survived the bombings of World War II.
"Woman on White Wicker Rocker" is made from bronze with a white patina to replicate the characteristic features of a plaster figure with its very textural, expressionist surface.
High up on the ceiling in one of the state rooms you can just about make out a little white plaster figure of a thatcher up a ladder with a bale of straw on his back: the Iron Lady's memento.
Elsewhere in the galleries a 1965 Kay Sekimachi woven piece floats like a phantasmagoric undersea creature, while John McCracken's solitary green plank leans against a wall close to a spectral female plaster figure by Manuel Neri, a dirt-on-paper work by David Ireland and a bronze self-portrait, with tongue sticking out, by Robert Arneson.
Among the show's more vibrant works in 3-D are George Segal's life-size "Trapeze" (1971), a plaster figure of an acrobat on the bar soaring high over viewers' heads, and "Drown the Clown" (1990), by Polly Apfelbaum, three empty but well-worn clown costumes (including a child's) that hang on a wall, a haunting, nostalgic tribute to their former occupants and the uncertainties of their lives.
At Antiquity Stone in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, a dozen computer-operated stone cutting machines and two robots cut, mill and polish the works of owner/artist Jeff Koons, including his recent monumental plaster figure: Gazing Ball (Farnese Heracles).
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In each one are life-like plaster figures and trompe l'oeil furnishings, depicting an episode in the life of Jesus.
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