New York Long Beach Museum of Art Examining concepts of history and knowledge, the ltalian-born California artist Pia Pizzo taunts and teases viewers into regarding the common bound book as more than a repository of verbal discourse… for the full review see the print edition of January/February 1999’s Sculpture magazine.
Dove Bradshaw
Los Angeles
Shawn Skabelund
Detroit
David Bates
Dallas
Rachel Whiteread
New York
Book Review: Alexander Calder, 1898-1976
by Marla Prather, Yale University Press, 40 pounds sterling; According to the Yale University Press catalogue, their new book on Calder “will for the first time present Calder in a serious light and a proper historical context.”
Book Review: Jeffrey Shaw: A Users Manual
Jeffrey Shaw. A Users Manual From Expanded Cinema toVirtual Reality. By Anne Marie Duguet, Heinrich Klotz, Peter Weibel, and Jeffrey Shaw. Editions ZKM/Cantz Verlag, 1997 Bilingual, English and German Pioneer virtual-media artist Jeffrey Shaw has maintained a prodigious output of interactive media artworks for many years, works which are both conceptually and technologically sophisticated.
Mark Hadjipateras
Athens lleana Tounta Art Center Artio Gallery Two solo exhibitions have presented the works of Mark Hadjipateras in Athens galleries. The first one took place at the lleana Tounta Art Center and the second a month later, at the Artio Gallery.
Luigi Mainolfi, Giuseppe Maraniello
Pesaro, Italy Pescheria Center for Vrsual Art This year the Pescheria Center for Visual Art held an exhibition of works by two artists who have been prominent on the contemporary art scene for many years. The work of Luigi Mainolfi and Giuseppe Maraniello on exhibit in the beautiful loggia of the Pescheria reconfirms the persistence
Max Ernst: Sculptures, Houses, Landscape
Paris Centre Georoes Pom pidou A founder of Dada and member of the surrealist movement, Max Ernst was largely recognized for his paintings (not to mention his fleeting relationships with women such as Peggy Guggenheim) but his sculpture has most often been overlooked.
