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The Four Seasons

(2012)

The FOUR SEASONS is a set of four five-meter-high fiberglass sculptures by internationally-renowned contemporary American artist and filmmaker Philip Haas.

 

In a spectacular transformation that is typical of his work, Haas has created a group of large-scale sculptures, inspired by Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s renaissance paintings of the four seasons, comprising SPRING, SUMMER, AUTUMN and WINTER. The colossal size of the sculpture accentuates the visual puzzle of natural forms –- flowers, ivy, moss, fungi, vegetables, fruit, trees, bark, branches, twigs -– as they are recycled to form four human portraits, each representing an individual season. The result is at once grotesque, earthy, and exuberant.

The exhibition has been on a ten-year, thirteen-venue tour of museums and gardens in England, the United States and France, including Dulwich Picture Gallery, New York Botanical Garden, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum and Château Baux. WINTER, on its own, has been presented in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Gardens of Versailles and Piazza del Duomo in Milan.

FOUR SEASONS maquettes at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
FOUR SEASONS maquettes at the Atlanta Botanical Garden
AUTUMN at Dulwich Picture Gallery
SUMMER at the Nelson-Atkins Museum
SPRING at Crystal Bridges Museum
WINTER at the National Gallery of Art
FOUR SEASONS at Château Baux
SUMMER arriving at Dulwich Picture Gallery
SUMMER and WINTER at the Flint Institute of Arts
WINTER at the New York Botanical Garden
FOUR SEASONS at the Nelson-Atkins Museum
FOUR SEASONS at the Atlanta Botanical Garden
FOUR SEASONS at the Atlanta Botanical Garden
FOUR SEASONS at the New York Botanical Garden4
AUTUMN and WINTER at the New York Botanical Garden
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