Vertical and horizontal lines, grids, squares, and circles—the vocabulary of Werner Haypeter’s work apparently relies on basic forms of geometric abstraction. This has prompted some critics to label his extensive sculptural output as “concrete art” or “constructivism.”
Joel Shapiro: Meaning in Geometric Form
Joel Shapiro was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center in 2015. For a full list of Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, click here. untitled, 2002–07. Bronze, 13.33 x 27.79 x 12.92 ft.
Make Your Own Trail: A Conversation with Richard Wilson
Slipstream, one of Richard Wilson’s most innovative projects to date, translates the motion of a car rolling over into the aeronautical maneuver of a small propeller plane turning through the air at high altitude. The suspended, aluminum-clad sculpture twists through the central space of Heathrow Airport’s new Terminal 2 building like an elongated spacecraft settling
Ivan and Heather Morison: Survival Instinct
Viewers familiar with the British artists Ivan and Heather Morison expect their work to elicit a sense of unease. Anna, a piece of object theater installed in their 2012 Hepworth Wakefield exhibition, showcased their diversity of media and approaches.
Beauty with a Measure of Awkwardness: A Conversation with Sahej Rahal
Clever, capable, and spirited, Sahej Rahal belongs to a new generation of Indian artists who have seen the success of their immediate predecessors and wish for more of the same. Rahal is as articulate as he is well-informed, with kaleidoscopic knowledge and the ability to adapt ideas from recent history with intellectual ease; his works
Jeff Koons: A Supreme Trouble-Maker in Crowd-Pleasing Clothes
For a moment, let’s look at the work of Jeff Koons in its artistic and cultural context, separating it from issues having to do with production, financing, promotion, and reception—for the latter have received ample attention in the wake of the artist’s retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Michael Cooper: Mastery with a Message
It looks like an ordinary tricycle that any three-year-old might ride. But it’s made entirely of wood (wenge and sycamore), and if you give it more than a passing glance, you notice a wooden gun mounted under the seat, pointing in a forward direction.
Sculpture as Haiku: A Conversation with Hidetoshi Nagasawa
Hidetoshi Nagasawa was born in 1940 in Tonei, Manchuria, where his Japanese parents were located because his father was an army doctor. During the war, when Soviet forces attacked Manchuria, the Nagasawas fled back to Japan and settled near Tokyo.
Fusion: A Conversation with Rachel Kneebone
British sculptor Rachel Kneebone uses porcelain to create deeply psychological and sensual tableaux of contorted bodies and limbs. I first came across her work at the Brooklyn Museum, where it was paired with the sculpture of Auguste Rodin in the exhibition “Regarding Rodin” (2012).
Of Empathy, Appropriation, and Time: Gillian Jagger
How do you solve a problem like Gillian Jagger’s label-defying work? It does not fit into any familiar art-market niche and confounds many of the art establishment’s trend-conscious poobahs. It is not postmodern-ironic, nor does she send her designs out to nameless fabricators to be manufactured—bigger, shinier, more expensive—and then sold to trophy-seeking Russian oligarchs
