“Abraham David Christian is an international artist who is best known for his paper and bronze sculptures. Geometrical and shape-of-life forms reference the traditions of Eastern, Western, African, and American cultures, even as they remain perfectly unique unto themselves. Abraham David Christian sculptures convene the spirits of Renaissance art (Donatello and Michelangelo), the Classical abstract art of the avantgarde in the twentieth century (Giacometti and Brancusi), the most (so-called) "primitive" objects from the smallest villages in Africa, and the most (so-called) "refined" goddess or Buddha from India or Japan. Included in his first documenta (5) when Abraham David Christian was only nineteen years old (1972), Abraham David Christian has had one-person exhibitions at Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld (1978), Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf (1983), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Calais (1988), among others. His sculpture was the subject of a major retrospective at the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg, Germany, in the year 2000. His work is included in many important public and private collections in Europe, Asia and America. A major book was recently published by DuMont (Köln, 2000).” From Richard Milazzo, in Abraham David Christian, La Salle des Pieds Perdus (New York – Paris – Turin: Edgewise Press, 1999). |