Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue
2008, Helsinki, Henry Moore and The Challenge of Architecture
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2008, Helsinki, Henry Moore and The Challenge of Architecture
07 February 2008 - 28 September 2008
Henry Moore and the Challenge of Architecture explores ways in which the artist approached problems of placing sculpture in an architectural context as increasingly his works were finding homes in an urban environment. The Didrichsen Art Museum was designed by Finnish architect Viljo Revell, whose last project was a collaboration with Moore on the controversial siting of Three Way Piece No.2: The Archer 1965 (LH 535) in Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto. The Didrichsen collection includes a cast of Atom Piece (Working Model for Nuclear Energy) 1964-65 (LH 525) and Archer (LH 536) in white marble: two key works in the exhibition.
15 September 2007 - 30 March 2008
29 March - 29 August 2010 (Perry Green), 3 February - 3 April 2011 (Leeds)
03 July 2004 - 03 October 2004
17 September 2021 - 23 January 2022
Configuration brings together a small, focused selection of sculpture, drawings and collages highlighting Henry Moore’s ceaseless investigation into form, material and volume. Throughout his lifetime, Moore collected objects such as bones, stones, shells and driftwood which he would turn over in his hands, build up, press into clay, cast, or photograph. This haptic practice saw Moore humanise these forms, and capture their relationship to the body both physical and imaginative.