Copenhagen - Elisabeth Toubro, Byfraktal (City Fractal)
Elisabeth Toubro (b. 1956) made her breakthrough in the 1980s along with a group of her fellow sculptors from professor Hein Heinsen's department at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Known today as the &quot;cool sculptors”, the work by the group is characterized by highly refined surfaces and, frequently, a certain degree of inaccessibility. Toubro's sculptures are executed in a blend of natural and new, synthetic materials. They contain allusions to narrative sequences ranging from symbolic forms the artist finds in her surroundings and memories. Toubro works with the idea of sculpture as pure surface. Frequently, her work discusses the core or essence traditionally associated with sculpture. This mainly shows up in her choice of transparent materials and her matter-of-fact way of riveting together the planes of the materials. Toubro's sculptures have a strong lyrical component in their many contra- and juxtaposition.
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