Heide Hatry’s SKIN has landed in the center of an international dialogue with remarkable speed. The project, a multi-dimensional multimedia exploration of pigskin, has been exhibited in the artist’s native Germany, Spain, and Canada, as well as in Los Angeles and at the Goethe Institut in New York City.
If This is Venice (Kassel, Münster), It Must Be Now
I ran into the dealer from the Gagosian Gallery at the foot of a very large, very real, and aggressively mangy stuffed giraffe. This was at Documenta, the 12th incarnation of the every-five-years survey of contemporary art in Kassel, Germany.
The International Sculpture Center 2007 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards
The International Sculpture Center is proud to present the winners of the 2007 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. This year’s program attracted hundreds of nominees from university sculpture programs in North America and abroad.
John Armleder: Tasting the Pudding
Products, sounds, images—contemporary culture swamps us with sensory overload. “Too Much, ” opines John Armleder, “is not Enough.” (The quirky capitalization in the show’s title is Armleder’s.) In his first solo U.S. museum installation, Armleder took over the entire 10,000-square-foot exhibition space at the Rose Art Museum in Waltham, Massachusetts, and filled it with a
Icons and Monuments: Olympic Sculpture Park
The Seattle Art Museum’s new Olympic Sculpture Park is important for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that it provides Seattle with the downtown central park it never had. That, and the fact that landscape architecture plays a greater role than in many other urban sculpture parks, suggests that, while OSP
Art You Can Feel: The Vancouver Sculpture Biennale
I am riding a bicycle for the first time in 20 years, and “my” city has opened up to me like a jack-in-the-box. I am making a tour of 24 sculptures from 11 countries, which have been nestled in Vancouver’s public landscape for 18 months.
Paul Neagu: Cross vs. Hyphen—Global Symbols Revisited
Sooner or later, anyone approaching Paul Neagu’s sculpture is bound to experience the challenge of his Hyphens. The prototype resembled an unconventional workbench or an easel for making objects or drawings. It was first exhibited in 1975 at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, where it generated much attention and curiosity.
YSP @ 30: The 30-Year Journey of Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Andy Goldsworthy
This year Yorkshire Sculpture Park marks its 30th birthday. As a central part of its celebrations, the park is hosting the largest Andy Goldsworthy exhibition to date in Britain, a perfect selection since the artist began his post-art-school work in 1977.
Sculpture by the Way: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
Coosje van Bruggen and Claes Oldenburg met in January 1970, during the Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art’s Oldenburg retrospective (the show was organized in 1969 by the Museum of Modern Art). At the time, van Bruggen, a well-known art historian, writer, and curator, was a member of the curatorial staff at the Stedelijk.
Emerging Art at The Fields Sculpture Park, Omi International Arts Center
“To some degree, we have a ‘do it well and they will come’ theory,” Francis Greenburger, the founder of Omi International Arts Center (Art Omi), said recently. “We’re less concerned about large numbers than about being an important venue for the type of art that we’re exhibiting.
