San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art One of Europe’s foremost video artists, Fabrizio Plessi, who came to prominence in Italy during the 1970s, presented five large-scale installations in an exhibition that premiered at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo in June 1998 and traveled to San Diego in November… see the print edition in May 1999’s Sculpture
Jacques Lipchitz
Paris, France Gardens of the Palais Royal Only the French would have the sheer effrontery and style to mount a large-scale exhibition by a key 20th-century sculptor in the elegant surroundings of the Palais Royal gardens… for the full review see the print edition of May 1999’s Sculpture magazine.
Monica Weiss
Atlanta Space 1181 Monika Weiss’s installation Koinan is intended to reverse a legend of the saints both conceptually and in terms of gender. The installation (the title of which alludes to burial and decomposition) consists of an octagonal concrete basin shaped like an early Christian baptismal font.
Richard Torok
Vigado Gallery Budapest, Hungary ln the spring of 1998 one of the most prestigious galleries in Budapest, the Vigado Gallery, held an exhibition of the work of Richard Torok to posthumously honor the sculptor, who died five years ago… Subscribe to Sculpture Magazine to read the full review.
Steven Tucker
Nexus Foundation of Today’s Art Philadelphia Steve Tucker, Breaking the Surface,1998. Wood and steel, 48 x 110 x 14 in. At first glance it seems that Steven Tucker is adept at playing one or two notes and exploring their limited range.
Duane Paxson
Forest Dance Ford Gallery, Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI Pliant and spirited, the sculptures of “Forest Dance” enliven the ambient space. Without hands and with featureless spheres or branches for heads, those on the floor pivot like dancers.
Christo & Jeanne-Claude
Palazzo Bricherasio and Fondation Beveler Turin, Italy Basel, Switzerland Christo and Jeanne-Glaude, Wrapped Trees, 1998. View of site-specific work in Basel After a 25-year absence, Christo and Jeanne-Claude have returned to ltaly. Their work first appeared here in 1963, when Christo had a solo exhibition at Gallerie Le Noci in Milan.
Julie Allen
Joseph Hellman Gallery New York For Julie Alien, it’s back to basics. ln her case, the basics take the form of women’s underwear-bras, panties, thongs, camisoles, a bustier-garments that shape a woman’s body into the embodiment of desire and the purses and handbags that any proper young lady would not leave home without.
Kiki Smith
The Mattress Factory and the Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh Kiki Smith has become one of the most famous female artists of her generation. While a wide range of feminist concerns informed Smith’s earlier work, she never referenced a specific issue or theory.
Ann Hamilton
the body and the object: Ann Hamilton 1984-1996 Ann Hamilton: woven Miami Art Museum Ann Hamilton, untitled (privation and excess), 1989. View of installation. The touring exhibition “the body and the object: Ann Hamilton 1984-1996,” organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, happily allows for fragmentary
