‘Agua na Oca’, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2010/11
In November 2010 five water sculptures were shipped to Sao Paulo for a major exhibition on the theme of water. The exhibition was held in the Oca building designed by Oscar Niemeyer in the 1950s. Natural light floods into this vast shallow dome through portholes punched around the perimeter. William Pye was the only British artist exhibiting there and the only one to incorporate water – all other exhibits simulate or represent water by various means. Each of the five water sculptures says something about the way water behaves: Scylla shows a vortex, Tavola exploits reflection, Delos features laminar flow jets, Coanda shows how water clings to surfaces, and Aureola features water activity in a double skinned transparent dome that can be viewed from inside and out.
Three of the sculptures then went to Rio de Janeiro for the ‘Agua no Rio’ show.
The exhibition ran from November 2010 to June 2011
Other Exhibitions
Sculpture in a Landscape 1969 – 2020, Wiltshire
Organised by The Friends of the Garden, this exhibition takes place at West Leaze, Wiltshire, the same property used for showing work by 18 contemporary sculptors in 1969, which included William Pye.
The Secret Garden, solo show, Brighton, 2019
As part of the Brighton Festival in May and June 2019, a collection of fourteen of Pye’s water sculptures between 1994 and 2010 and Charioteer, a bronze sculpture from 1964, were shown in the Secret Garden in Kemptown, Brighton.