The increasing three-dimensionality of Schnabel’s work was shown to the public in an exhibition at the Mary Boone Gallery in 1982 which included paintings with even more clearly defined sculptural elements, for example Rest, 1982. Two other works included in that exhibition, however, represent the first steps into the realm of bronze sculpture: The Mud in Mudanza, 1982, which has a cast bronze cross and cast antlers in its centre, and The Raft, 1982, featuring a bronze tree struck boldly through its It is at this stage, with the necessity of casting in bronze, that the sculptures or “objects”, as the artist first referred to them, were.
