“A tribute exhibition to Australia’s greatest sculptor” was the statement on the invitation to the opening of Robert Klippel’s exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. The press release from the gallery stated that “his vision stands alone in the history of Australian art” and that Klippel is “arguably one of
Mapping Traces: A Conversation with Rachel Whiteread
Rachel Whiteread’s meteoric rise to prominence in the 1990s cemented her reputation as one of Britain’s most important sculptors. Her work involves casting the space within and around objects, using materials such as resin, plaster, concrete, and rubber, to create negative impressions of her chosen object.
A Matter of Passion: A Conversation with Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Christo and Jeanne-Claude were awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center in 2004. For a full list of Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, click here. Christo and Jeanne-Claude have created 18 major outdoor projects, which are among the most ambitious, innovative sculptures in the world.
As You Spend Time with It: A Conversation with Tim Hawkinson
For an artist who likes his privacy, Tim Hawkinson was busy on the day I met with him in his Garment District studio in downtown Los Angeles. A shy, soft-spoken man with a quick wit, Hawkinson doesn’t often agree to do interviews….
Responses and Interactions: A Conversation with Robert Chambers
Robert Chambers is blazing a sensory trail with installations that talk back, move, smell good, make their own music, and change colors. A postmodern paragon, he self-consciously plays with Rothko-esque glowing biomorphic pools and a Duchampian helicopter with mesmerizing rotors….
Measuring the Clouds: A Conversation with Jan Fabre
Jan Fabre lives and works in his native Antwerp. Contemporary art aficionados know him for his powerful figurative or abstract drawings executed in blue ballpoint and his sculptures fraught with surface ornament. Fabre’s early drawings and sculptures of the 1970s reveal his abiding interest in performance art.
The Uncanny Eye: Lee Bontecou
On the heels of a meteoric rise to acclaim in the 1960s, Lee Bontecou withdrew from the art scene in the early ’70s to quietly pursue what she calls “new directions.” Her long absence from the exhibition circuit led to a virtual exclusion from most art history texts.
Picasso, Sculpture, and Picasso’s Women
Head of a Woman (Fernande), 1909, plaster. I believe that Pablo Picasso, in terms of the history of art, is as important for his sculptures as he is for his paintings. His inventiveness, his radical reappraisal of what sculpture was and could become, and his ability (rather like Henry Moore’s) to seize on the discoveries
