''R-Evolution'' is the third and final sculpture in
Marco Cochrane
Marco Cochrane (born 1962) is an American sculptor born in Venice, Italy, best known for his large-scale steel sculptures of nude women.
Early and personal life
Cochrane was born in Venice to American artists and raised in Berkeley, California. W ...
's series, ''The Bliss Project''. The work debuted at Burning Man in 2015, and was installed in Embarcadero Plaza in San Francisco in April of 2025.
Description and history
The tall, ''R-Evolution'' sculpture is standing in a
tadasana
Tadasana (), Mountain pose or Samasthiti (; ) is a standing asana in modern yoga as exercise; it is not described in medieval hatha yoga texts. It is the basis for several other standing asanas.
Etymology and origins
Tāḍāsana is from th ...
pose. In December 2016, activists applied for a permit to display ''R-Evolution'' on the
National Mall
The National Mall is a Landscape architecture, landscaped park near the Downtown, Washington, D.C., downtown area of Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States. It contains and borders a number of museums of the Smithsonian Institu ...
starting in November 2017 for the "Catharsis on the Mall" event, but the permit was denied over fears the turf would be damaged. Although the sculpture was too tall for temporary installations on the Mall, a height variance was issued and later revoked. Undaunted, the group instead applied to exhibit a -tall composite photograph of 27 naked women holding the same pose, which a spokeswoman called "a healing image and it's about making women feel safe in their environments."
See also
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2015 in art
The year 2015 in art involved various significant events.
Events
* February - Paul Gauguin's painting '' When Will You Marry?'' sells for $300m (£197m), reportedly to Qatar Museums, the highest known price ever paid for any work of art
* Apri ...
* ''
Truth is Beauty'' (2013)
References
External links
* {{cite news , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/us/nude-sculpture-national-mall.html , title=Nude Sculpture Four Stories Tall Planned for National Mall , author=Caron, Christina , date=2 October 2017 , newspaper=The New York Times
2015 sculptures
Burning Man