Philip Haas: The Four Seasons
July 6, 2019 - November 18, 2019
Hurand Sculpture CourtyardThe Four Seasons is a large-scale homage to the Italian Renaissance painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526–1593), who painted a series of the same name for Habsburg Emperor Maximilian II. Contemporary artist and filmmaker Philip Haas conceptualized the transformation of the portraits from two-dimensional paintings to three-dimensional, 15-foot-tall sculptures.
As in Arcimboldo’s paintings, the physical features of the four sculpted figures are rendered in botanical forms appropriate to each season. Each sculpture is made up of hundreds of sections. Welders created supporting steel infrastructures for the monumental figures. The museum and Haas’s staff assembled the figures on site over the span of nearly a week.
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