Milan doesn’t seem like an Italian city. The austerity of the architecture, the fog, the frenetic work pace reminds one more of a cold Northern European metropolis. In Milan, people have no time to waste, and they are definitely in no mood to fool around: the financial centers set their rules, political potentates organize their
The Doors of Expression:The Work of Art in the Age of Quantum Processing Power
Forecasting the future of art is probably the most unmerciful of disciplines and the one, among other prophetic practices, that has consistently proven a historical impossibility. Hegel, the father of modern aesthetics, also happens to be the author of the most flagrant misreading of art history.
Armed and Disarming: The Haute Bricolage of Tom Sachs
Sachs uses controversy, fashion, consumerism, and duct tape in his edgy sculptures…see the full review in May’s magazine.
Juan Muñoz: Negotiating Belief
These works center on difference, the distance this condition creates, and longing….see the full review in May’s magazine.
Spiritual Materiality: Contemporary Sculpture and the Responsibility of Forms
There is a history of forms, structures, writings, which has its own particular time—or rather, times: it’s precisely this plurality which seems threatening to some people.” —Roland Barthes1 With the introduction of the notion of artistic will or urge, the Kunstwollen, which he believed to be an expression of the spiritual conditions of the time, the
The Emptiness of Space: A Conversation with Gio’ Pomodoro
Gio’ Pomodoro was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center in 2002. For a full list of Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, click here. Gio’ Pomodoro’s work is widely known in Europe, the United States, South America, Israel, and Japan.
Carlos Ulloa: Body, Humor, and Other Systems
VN5, 1999. Plastic, steel, and chewing gum, 70 x 27 x 19 cm. Carlos Ulloa was born in Philadelphia in 1967 to an American mother and a Cuban father. He has spent the most creative period of his life so far, the last eight years or so, in Germany.
Red Hot: Iron Casting in the 21st Century
Cast-iron sculpture and the International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron….see the full review in April’s magazine.
Directions in Installation Art
LACMA’s recent exhibition marks a growing sponsorship of a once-marginalized art form…see the full review in April’s magazine.
Sculptures and Spaces: Claus Bury
Bury’s architectural sculptures are intrinsically linked to their sites…see the full review in April’s magazine.
