OTTAWA, CANADA National Gallery of Canada As David Askevold’s recent retrospective “Once Upon a Time in the East” demonstrated, Pop, Minimalism, and media culture could all be part of conceptual art.
Antony Gormley
SAN GIMIGNANO, ITALY Galleria Continua San Gimignano, a historic town in the heart of Tuscany, recently hosted an absorbing exhibition of new and older works by Antony Gormley. At the heart of the show was Vessel, a site-specific work conceived for the former theater and cinema that forms the central part of the labyrinthine Galleria Continua space.
Koenraad Dedobbeleer
ZURICH Mai 36 Galerie Making sculpture from found objects has become as common today as it was shocking when Duchamp created his first readymade in 1915. It takes something fresh, different, and let’s face it, unique, to make this sort of sculpture interesting.
Motohiko Odani
TOKYO Takamatsu City Museum of Art Sculptor and multimedia artist Motohiko Odani is a leading young voice in the Japanese art scene. He says that he grew up captivated by American cinema, including the horror genre and the films of David Lynch.
Cristina Lei Rodriguez
New York Team Gallery Miami-based Cristina Lei Rodriguez makes sculptures that look like they have survived a terrible bombing—purses are crushed, and necklaces, pins, and fabrics are strewn like debris in small heaps of glittering trash.
Botero and Sculpture
Fernando Botero was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center in 2012. For a full list of Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, click here. Popular recognizability is Fernando Botero’s worst enemy, feeding the rejection of his work by many elitists who favor the age’s paradoxical taste for the smugly obscure combined with the profoundly superficial.
Syncretic Improvisations: A Conversation with Sanford Biggers
While working in Japan, Italy, Germany, Poland, Brazil, and the United States, Sanford Biggers honed his view that art may simultaneously embrace diverse cultures. For example, he sees the tree as a symbol of growth and connectedness to earth, as the natural form under which Buddha found enlightenment, and as slavery’s lynching post.
Sophie Ryder’s Creatures of Determination and Dexterity
There is little doubt that 20th- and 21st-century British sculpture has been one of the defining forces of contemporary art. From public enthusiasm for Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth to current fascination with today’s illuminating figures, a tradition has persisted nearly without interruption.
William King’s Etruscan Days
William King is a keen observer of human experience. His sculptures can be amusing or acerbic, combining wit and satire in a choreography of social affectations and gestures. Recently King has been working with fabrics such as Naugahyde, burlap, and vinyl, which he fashions loosely, sews together, and attaches to metal armatures.
2012 Outstanding Student Achievement In Contemporary Sculpture Awards
The International Sculpture Center is proud to present the winners of the 2012 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards. This year’s program attracted a large number of nominees from university sculpture programs in North America and abroad.
