{"id":1819,"date":"2022-12-22T22:35:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T22:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cheekwood.wpengine.com\/?page_id=1819"},"modified":"2023-07-10T16:26:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T16:26:24","slug":"alicja-kwade","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cheekwood.org\/discover\/sculpture-trail\/alicja-kwade\/","title":{"rendered":"Alicja Kwade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column]<div class=\"banner banner--split\" style=\"background-color: #eeeeee;\"><div class=\"banner__overlay\" style=\"background-color: ;\"><\/div><div class=\"banner__content\"><h1><strong>Alicja Kwade<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Polish, b. 1979<\/p>\n<p><em>Pars pro Toto<\/em>, 2020<br \/>\nNatural stone<br \/>\nMuseum purchase with funds from the Ann and Monroe Carell Jr. Foundation, Kathryn &amp; David Brown, Edie &amp; David Johnson, and Julie Carell Stadler<br \/>\n2021.02A-G.<\/p>\n<h2>Listen<\/h2>\n<div class=\"sc_fancy_player_container\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1819-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/cheekwood.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kwade-Audio-Stop.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cheekwood.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kwade-Audio-Stop.mp3\">https:\/\/cheekwood.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kwade-Audio-Stop.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div>\n<\/div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"banner__image\" src=\"https:\/\/cheekwood.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/O9A2302-1.jpg\" alt=\"O9A2302 1\" \/><\/div><!-- .banner -->[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Based in Berlin, Alicja Kwade frequently draws on complex scientific and philosophical concepts to create work that challenges and changes perceptions of reality. In\u00a0<em>Pars pro Toto<\/em>, she explores ideas of space and time through an arrangement of seven spheres, made of different types and colors of stone, ranging in size from 2 \u00bd feet to just over 5 feet in diameter. Simultaneously enigmatic and approachable, the smooth, glossy globes conjure a broad range of associations: planets, marbles, or billiard balls, which are sometimes used by physicists to illustrate the laws of quantum mechanics. Kwade sited\u00a0<em>Pars pro Toto<\/em>\u00a0in a specific arrangement along The Carell Trail, enabling viewers to walk through the individual orbs, which collectively evoke both weighty earthly matter and a shimmering interstellar galaxy. The title references the Latin phrase that translates to a part taken for, or representative of, the whole.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the seven spheres comprising\u00a0<em>Pars pro Toto<\/em>\u00a0was extracted in its raw stone form from quarries in seven countries, on three continents. Stonemasons in Germany, following Kwade\u2019s specifications, carefully sculpted the blocks into highly polished stone balls. The richly colored striations and crystallization visible in the layers of each stone function as a kind of geological clock or timescale, formed through sedimentation, or the process of matter being deposited and compressed over long periods of time.<\/p>\n<p>63 in. \u2013 Carrara marble, quarried in Italy, 13,003 lbs.<br \/>\n59 5\/6 in. \u2013 Fantasy Brown marble and quartzite, quarried in India\/ China, 11,149 lbs.<br \/>\n51 1\/5 in. \u2013 Halmstad granite, quarried in Sweden, 6,973 lbs.<br \/>\n43 1\/3 in. \u2013 Rosa Portogallo marble, quarried in Portugal, 4,226 lbs.<br \/>\n39 2\/5 in. \u2013 Masi quartzite, quarried in Norway, 3,175 lbs.<br \/>\n35 2\/5 in. \u2013 Azul Macauba quartzite, quarried in Brazil, 2,315 lbs.<br \/>\n11 5\/6 in. \u2013 Wondergrey marble, quarried in India, 86 lbs.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based in Berlin, Alicja Kwade frequently draws on complex scientific and philosophical concepts to create work that challenges and changes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":660,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"simple-restrict-permission":[],"class_list":["post-1819","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Alicja Kwade | Cheekwood Estate &amp; Gardens<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn more about Alicja Kwade, seven spheres that challenge and change perceptions of reality. 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