Copenhagen Copenhagen is still a vibrant center for the Dogme wave… see the print version of December 1999’s Sculpture magazine.
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
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.
Alfredo Jaar
Fort Lauderdale
Spoleto Festival 1999
Charleston
Signs and Wonders
A number of contemporary artists explore the liminal world between the technical and the human while also demonstrating a millennial longing for transcendence….see the full review in December’s magazine.
