Recipient of the 2025 Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award
It is a good time to position the work of Albert Paley within the Modernist canon, and not only because for decades he has been understood internationally to be one of the most important artists whose work
is centered on metal. Rather, it is because—given the worryingly complex times we are in politically and socially—Paley’s oeuvre reminds us of the actual purpose of art, and how it fits into the larger idea of humanity. His work is quintessentially connected to the idea of the modern condition. He has always understood that modernity is profoundly complex, with multiple threads woven into its intellectual and aesthetic fabric. . .
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