Sculpture as metaphor has recently been encroaching on the territory of the late Modernist anti-aesthetic of the literal, that of the Minimalist cube. Yet sculpture requires a context, and that context exceeds the presence of the work.
Orgy in the Sky: Rebecca Ripple
Los Angeles-based Rebecca Ripple first intrigued me with word works that seemed to hollow out a place for the human body in banal furnishings. thigh/blind (2001), for instance, spells out “thigh” by cutting the word, letter by letter, into aluminum blinds; in another piece, “elbo” is sewn into a Home Depot rug.
Acts of Finding: A Conversation with Ann Hamilton
Acts of reading have multiple dimensions yet leave no material trace: this is the subject of human carriage, Ann Hamilton’s recent installation circumnavigating the rotunda of the Guggenheim Museum, which was on view last year. Pulleys, guillotined books, a silk-sheathed bell that rang as it raced down the building’s iconic spiral, and a Reader who
Extreme Precision: A Conversation with Margaret Evangeline
Margaret Evangeline has long experimented with aesthetically resistant materials, making work that deepens the immediacy of a moment. She is perhaps best known for her use of gunshot and mirror-polished stainless steel. In recent videos, she experiments with sounds and actions collected while shooting the steel panels of a commissioned sculpture.
The Space In Between: A Conversation with Kader Attia
Sculpture as metaphor has recently been encroaching on the territory of the late Modernist anti-aesthetic of the literal, that of the Minimalist cube. Yet sculpture requires a context, and that context exceeds the presence of the work.
Anish Kapoor at the Guggenheim: The Dimensions of Memory
Anish Kapoor’s Memory is a new kind of monument—a 24-ton, Cor-ten steel, site-specific work that poses phenomenological questions about inner space, mind, and being. Designed for both the New York and Berlin Guggenheims, it debuted in Berlin in November 2008 as the first Deutsche Bank commission.
Transcending the Object: Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor is widely known for works that enter into a deep spiritual engagement with the viewer. He revels in the spectacular, creating visually overwhelming, attention-commanding sculpture. During his recent retrospective at London’s Royal Academy of Art, viewers entering the courtyard confronted a towering column of highly reflective spheres that prompted immediate surprise.
Conceptual Light: The Bas-Reliefs of Gahae Park
Ecstasy in art is not reserved for expressionist aesthetics. It is a condition bound not to a style but to what we once called aesthetic experience—how the viewer receives a work of art, specifically the feeling one obtains through the process of viewing material transformed through light.
Miami Beyond the Fair
Over the last decade, several dozen contemporary art galleries, museum-quality private art collections, and artist studios have established a presence within a geographically discrete urban grid of warehouses and modest residential neighborhoods in Miami. Nearby commercial enterprises such as restaurants, shoe and clothing wholesale businesses, and boat repair shops attest to the pragmatism and flexibility
Geoglyphs Spanning the Globe: Andrew Rogers
Andrew Rogers has an impressive string of achievements to his name, any one of which could secure a listing in the annals of art history and in the Guinness Book of Records. Over a period of 11 years, he has created artworks on a vast scale around the world: 40 works in all, in 12
