Santa Monica Santa Monica Museum of Art Jim lsermann’s traveling retrospective, “Fifteen,” currently at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, seems-at first take-to be as unthreatening (in terms of aesthetic decision-making) as a furniture showroom. The exhibition presents itself as a candid discussion of egalitarian visual pleasure- even homespun beauty.
Dispatch: HorseHead International 1999 and “Sculpture: 40,000 Years Later”
Two major sculpture exhibitions, “HorseHead International 1999” and “Sculpture: 40,000 YearsLater,” brought together… see December 2022’s print version of Sculpture magazine.
Book Review: Conceptual Art, New Media, and Landscape and Environmental Art
ln these millennial times, there are a number of books appearing that survey the accomplishments of the contentious century that is just ending… see the print version of December 1999’s Sculpture magazine.
Artscape 2000 Minus 1
Baltimore Sculptures designed for outdoor festivals face a number of limitations, from the short run of the venue to a wildly mixed audience, mostly unaware of the latest art world trends and often skeptical of art.
Elona Van Gent
Grand Rapids Grand Rapids Art Museum Like an inventors room of twittering machines. the static, mechanical sculptures of Elona Van Gent contain a reserve of power, an electric charge that emerges from their formal structure. The objects possess a beautiful tension between on and off, form and function, and actuality and metaphor… Subscribe to Sculpture
Eduardo Chillida and Richard Serra
Bilbao The occasion of these overlapping exhibitions at the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum affords an opportunity for anyone interested in coming to grips with some of the most important issues in sculpture today. The power and force of these sculptures provoke a conversation whose terms are difficult to avoid..
Dennis Oppenheim
Washington, DC Corcoran Gallery of Art There is something unsettling about the degree of pain, if not outright sadism, in this small collectionof 13 recently purchased drawings, sculptures, and photo documentations by Dennis Oppenheim, the American conceptualist.
Tracey Emin
New York Lehmann Maupin “l’m fucked up. l’m 35. l’m childless. l’m anorexic. l’m neurotic. l’m psychotic…Everyday I try to sort it out,” proclaims Tracey Emin in her tell-all confessional video, interviewed by herself-adopting a second role-Emin takes on questions about her public persona and her private-turned-public life.
Marek Chlanda
Kraków, Poland The Bunkier Sztuki Gallery Marek Chlanda’s retrospective exhibition (1978-1999) presents a diverse assortment of drawings and sculptures in which he engages dissimilar materials to produce an idiosyncratic melange of art. Thefirst decade especially represents an important period for Polish artists.
