Stretching for almost 800 feet and standing just under 20 feet high, Te Tuhirangi Contour is Richard Serra’s largest sculpture to date. Like most of Serra’s works situated in outdoor, natural landscapes, Te Tuhirangi Contour has received scant critical attention since its completion in 2001.
The Sculpture Olympics 2008
Along with the Olympics came the sculpture games—the International Olympic Sculpture Symposium in Beijing 2008. One of numerous activities held in conjunction with the Olympics this year, the symposium was sponsored by the Beijing Municipal Government and administered by the Beijing Urban Sculpture Office (BUSO) and the China Sculpture Institute (CSI).
Valérie Blass: It’s a Surface Situation
Valérie Blass turns everyday matter into an exposure of the psychic drift of our times. By building a hybridity into the things she fabricates, she causes us to question our perception of what is there. Deux assemblages crédibles à partir de mon environnement immédiat (2007), shown in the first Quebec Triennial at Montreal’s Musée d’art
Phil Price: Shape-Shifting Sculpture
Robert Irwin once stranded an East Coast art critic alongside a southern California roadway for obstinately refusing to consider hot rod building an art form. Irwin, a custom car builder in his youth, considers the Go & Show hot rod the apex of car customization art.
Christchurch: Sculpture as Urban Design Strategy
There is a new vogue in the traditional Garden City of Christchurch—art in public spaces. Public sculpture is all the rage, on the minds and agendas of artists, curators, gallery owners, urban designers, landscape architects, and the press and public alike.
Richard Serra’s Paris Promenade
Last spring, Monumenta transformed the historic Grand Palais in Paris for the second time, inviting Richard Serra to engage with the cavernous 145,000-square-foot volume that defines Henri Deglane’s 19th-century glass cathedral. By sponsoring these high-profile, site-specific interventions by contemporary artists (Anselm Kiefer was the first), the French government has restored the viability, public function, and
Sculpture Today: A Conversation with Alyson Shotz
For the past decade, Alyson Shotz has created sculptures and installations for public and private spaces in which light, texture, and material evoke sensations of movement and dynamism and create new and unexpected visual perceptions. Widely shown in the United States, she has exhibited at a number of major institutions, including the Aldrich Contemporary Art
Peripheral Visions: A Conversation with Linda Fleming
In the late afternoon light of the Western Nevada desert, the hard work of sand spiders becomes visible when the sun angle is just low enough to be caught by the glistening dew. This is the world that inspires Linda Fleming, a world apparent only out of the corner of one’s eye.
Jaume Plensa: The Shock of the Known
When Descartes deduced cogito ergo sum or when Einstein concluded that E=MC2, they formulated ideas of such incisive simplicity that we intuitively accept them as right. No matter that few of us are qualified to follow their precise reasoning, it is enough that such complex deductions have been so succinctly distilled and have thus entered
Dani Karavan: New Work in France, Germany, and Japan
Although the character of Dani Karavan’s site-specific outdoor interventions varies greatly, his basic vocabulary of geometric forms and innovative use of nature—light, wind, water, and sun—has remained unchanged since Negev Monument (1968), an early, seminal work in Israel.
