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Tempio Bretton, in Peruvian yellow travertine, pays homage to the celebrated Capability Brown, a well-known English garden designer. It was made specially for the occasion of an exhibition at Bretton Hall in Yorkshire Sculpture Park--a park laid out in the style of this master. Garden follies were often constructed to mimic the ruins of classical temples. The works were sited in the landscape to form a focal point in the greenery and to indicate a depth of space, while also presenting a relationship between an historic past and present surroundings. Dusenbery's aim was to reduce the stone structure in scale to the point of where architecture and sculpture merge.
In 1987 Dusenbery received a commission to create a temple complex in stone, incorporating ceremonial and performance areas, fountains, pavilions, and more, for the Fulton County Government Building in Atlanta. Prior to that project, he was commissioned to make works for public sites in Dallas, TX; Bellevue, Washington; Cedar Falls, IA; and Portland, OR. Early in his career, Dusenbery was an assistant to Isamu Noguchi. Dusenbery is represented in collections at museums such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Laumeier Sculpture Park and Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Art, and others in the United States and in Denmark, England, Israel, and Portugal.
Other works by Dusenbery installed in the sculpture park are Haystack (1977), in Italian tufo; and Damascus Gate (2002), Porta Stazzema (1979), and Rocchetta (1983), all in travertine.
More information on the artist can be found at http://www.walterdusenbery.com/. |
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Tempio Bretton, 1981
yellow travertine
120" x 40" x 40"
Courtesy of The Sculpture Foundation, Inc.
Photo: Malgorzata Mosiek |
