Employing an invented language of the human form that re-articulates heads, hands, ears, limbs, and sexual organs, David Altmejd’s figures present an assemblage of dispersed parts that give the impression of a body shattering and shuddering into being.
“Waterfronts”: Sculpture Along England’s Edge
A gigantic worm burrowing through a museum, bouncy sea barriers, a statue of an Iraq War veteran, and a walking map silhouetting a woman’s profile: these are some of the temporary sculptures currently installed along England’s southeastern coast as part of “Waterfronts,” a project exploring ideas of borders and nationhood.
Truer Forms: A Conversation with Yasue Maetake
The Wind, 2016–19. Forged steel, cast polyester resin, resin-coated soil on Plexiglas, and drawing on found plywood, 90 x 113 x 106 in. Photo: Courtesy the artist. Yasue Maetake, a Japanese sculptor who has been living in New York for more than 10 years, creates small to life-size works with found materials, blending abstract and
Taking Turns: A Conversation with Richard Deacon and Bill Woodrow
For over 30 years, British sculptors Richard Deacon and Bill Woodrow—both internationally recognized for their individual work—have engaged in intermittent collaboration. To date, they have produced more than 60 “shared sculptures,” and they are now showing their first-ever collaboratively made drawings, created between 2019 and 2020.
Object Lessons: Maya Lin
I knew I wanted to create something for Madison Square Park that would be intimately related to the park itself, the trees, and the state of the earth. Throughout the world, climate change is causing vast tracts of forested lands to die off.
The Frayed Edges of Things: A Conversation with Cerith Wyn Evans
In the neon works of Welsh conceptualist Cerith Wyn Evans, “real light” (as Dan Flavin called electric light) appears like an un-flickering flame, creating brilliant and bizarre spatial drawings. His sculptures resonate with an amalgam of illusion and fact, interacting with the spaces that they occupy, disappear into, and dissolve.
Cuando la fotografía toma el espacio: Una Conversación con Esteban Pastorino
Técnico Mecánico y con estudios en ingeniería mecánica en la Universidad de Buenos Aires, el artista visual argentino Esteban Pastorino focaliza su producción en el campo de la fotografía.
Mutable Bodies: A Conversation with Bonnie Collura
For more than 20 years, Bonnie Collura has pursued a sculptural agenda that incorporates wildly diverse materials and processes while also drawing on a wide array of references—everything from the pop cultural worlds of cartoons and movies like Star Wars to highbrow texts such as Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Peeled From a Private Life: Tracey Emin’s New Bronzes
Tracey Emin shot to fame when My Bed (1998) was shown at London’s Tate Gallery in 1999 as one of the shortlisted works for the Turner Prize. The sheets marked with bodily secretions, the used condoms, and the menstrual-stained underwear sent critics into an uproar, and a media furor ensued.
Elementos en Diálogo: Una Conversación con Leonardo Damonte
Focalizando en la investigación de proyectos que establecen vínculos entre los elementos constitutivos, con especial atención en la luz y el color para componer el eje del relato de sus obras, el artista plantea instalaciones donde la escultura es un recurso para explorar la relación establecida entre el espacio y los objetos.
