When Mark di Suvero was eight years old, Suvero was told that he read too many books and was subsequently taught how to work with his hands. Looking back now, Suvero realizes that day changed his life as he is now a sculptor because of it.
At first, Suvero made his sculptures out of wood. However, he felt this medium was too limiting and switched over to using steel. Suvero believes you can do many things with steel that you can't do with other materials, which is why he mostly makes his sculptures out of steel today. Suvero's pieces are also very much influenced by bridges to the point of emulation. What he really likes about them is their literal and figural connotations of connecting two things together. His works are also just about the joy of working with steel and receiving that joy by creating works of art with it.
Suvero's non-representative pieces are elementally constructed of directional lines and geometric shapes. His monochromatic works are also huge in size.
Even though Suvero's art results in these very big pieces, they are dwarfed in comparison to the Golden Gate Bridge that sometimes serves as their backdrop. It is Suvero's hope, however, that his audience will just turn their backs for a little bit and see his works for what they truly are.
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ArtBabble. Indianapolis Museum of Art, n.d. Web. 23 Apr. 2014.
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