Two major sculpture exhibitions, “HorseHead International 1999” and “Sculpture: 40,000 YearsLater,” brought together… see December 2022’s print version of Sculpture magazine.
Humanizing the Machine
Electronic systems provide kinetic sculpture with greater mobility and more humanlike randomness of motion, enhancing some artists’ desire to demystify the machine….see the full review in December’s 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.
Karin Sander: Hybrid Encounters
An elderly, gray-haired man wearing a blue suit stands with one foot ahead of the other: you feel age pressing on his body but also note his calm resolve. A child with a slightly concerned expression, nervous shoulders, and turned-in feet seems at once brave and scared; a young woman in bright, circa-1970s clothing, including
