Antony Gormley and Martin Gayford, Shaping the World: Sculpture from Prehistory to Now (Thames & Hudson, $60) The full title of this weighty book might lead readers to expect something like a conventional history lesson, a chronological approach to sculpture’s development across time and civilizations.
“Figures on a Ground: Perspectives on Minimal Art”
BRUSSELS Fondation CAB Though the matter-of-fact tone of the title correlates with Minimalism’s cool presence, this survey thwarted such stolid frankness by presenting content as unanticipated as it was exemplary.
Restless and Alive: A Conversation with Jennifer Tee
Dutch artist Jennifer Tee works across sculpture, installation, performance, photography, and collage. Her experiments with space, form, materials, and imagery (particularly her development of floor pieces and her fascination with curving lines and their associations) all focus on evoking “the soul in limbo.”
Video: María Carolina Baulo in Conversation with Ignacio Unrrein (Part 2)
The International Sculpture Center, publisher of Sculpture magazine, is excited to present an interview with María Carolina Baulo and Ignacio Unrrein, the cover artist for Sculpture’s November/December 2020 issue.
Qualities of the Unsaid: A Conversation with Kiyomi Iwata
Kiyomi Iwata, who was born in Kobe, Japan, is a textile artist whose work explores the relationship between geographies—East and West, North and South— through cultural signifiers, text, and materiality.
Richard Hunt
CHICAGO The Art Institute of Chicago Richard Hunt’s career trajectory reads like a modern-day version of a Baroque-era prodigy’s story. In 1957, while he was a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), the Museum of Modern Art purchased one of his works. Soon after, his sculptures were on display at the Whitney, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Video: María Carolina Baulo in Conversation with Ignacio Unrrein (Part 1)
The International Sculpture Center, publisher of Sculpture magazine, is excited to present an interview with María Carolina Baulo and Ignacio Unrrein, the cover artist for Sculpture’s November/December 2020 issue.
Truth of the Real: A Conversation with Anna Maria Maiolino
A Brazilian artist of Italian descent, Anna Maria Maiolino immigrated to Rio de Janeiro in 1960 and became associated with the New Figuration and New Brazilian Objectivity movements after attending the Escuela Técnica de Artes Visuales Cristóbal Rojas in Caracas and the Escola de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro.
Yane Calovski
HELSINKI Kohta Pinpointing the intentions behind “Personal Object,” Skopje-based Yane Calovski’s arresting exhibition of heterogeneous works ranging widely across materials and possible subjects, proved challenging. The difficulties became immediately evident in Embroidery (2020), a striking and expansive painted wood sculpture.
Maria Lai: Geographies of Memory
If birthplace is a determinant of fate, then Maria Lai (1919–2013), who was born in Ulassai on the island of Sardinia, embraced hers willingly, mining a profound cultural heritage made personal. For her, geography truly was destiny, and her work is defined by what was native to her experience.
