Obsessed

Obsession, no matter how manifested, is profoundly romantic and taboo. It strikes at the foundations of social values because it is compulsive and potentially without end. Obsession is the antithesis of repression in its public performance of excess.

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Kan Yasuda: Between Mind and Matter

Just as a great singer can use his voice at full volume or at the most disembodied of pianissimi, so Kan Yasuda can convey the full range of sculptural emotions as convincingly by the exploitation of powerfully expansive sculptural mass as by tender, almost imperceptible formal modulations.

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Jorge Oteiza: Nothing is Everything

The Guggenheim Museum of Art recently held the first comprehensive retrospective in New York of Jorge Oteiza (1908–2003), a formidable figure in the history of 20th-century Basque art. His work (represented in the exhibition by 125 sculptures, drawings, and collages) is particularly interesting for its range of influences, which include Neolithic cultures and the avant-garde

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