page_title: The Midpoint
section_title: Creation
hierarchical_section_title: The Midpoint / Creation
caption_attribution_description: English: The making of The Midpoint. French-Mexican actress Yadira Pascault Orozco during the casting process to create "The Midpoint" a hand-patinated hyperrealist sculpture by Carole Feuerman. Feuerman and Pascault Orozco met at the opening of Feuerman's Los Angeles exhibit, Perceptions, in July of 2016. Feuerman invited Yadira Pascault Orozco out to New York the following week to begin a week-long casting process that would create elements of the sculpture entitled The Midpoint created in created in Yadira Pascault Orozco's likeness. The sculpture was finished in 2017 and debuted at the 57th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia, also in 2017. In late 2019, the mayor of Tübingen (Germany), Boris Palmer, chose The Midpoint to appear the “Musée Imaginaire” by SWR2 Hölderlinturm on shore of The Neckar river. Causing a heated dispute over the work between the arts commission and members of the community.
context_page_description: The Midpoint is a 2017 hyperrealist hand-patinated resin sculpture, created by New York contemporary artist Carole Feuerman. The life size three-dimensional artwork represents a young woman wearing a one-piece bathing suit and swim cap after just exiting the water, still dripping wet.
context_section_description: The sculpture, depicting French-Mexican actress Yadira Pascault Orozco as a swimmer, began with an extensive plaster-casting and molding process at Feuerman's Manhattan studio. Pascault Orozco and Feuerman had met, for the first time, the week before in Los Angeles at the opening of Feuerman's sculpture show entitled "Perception" at KM Finearts. Pascault Orozco flew out to New York several days later to begin a week-long process of being molded and cast by Feuerman and her team with plaster and fiberglass to make a sculpture of her likeness.
caption: Yadira Pascault Orozco being cast for The Midpoint at the Feuerman Studio in New York, July 2016
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