Originality has an inside and an outside. Understanding the nature of originality in sculpture requires an understanding of both—of the inside, what it is in the sculptor’s life that created her artistic personality, and the outside, what sets her work apart from that of other artists of similar inclination.
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Richard Tuttle
NEW YORK The Pace Gallery The wizardry of Richard Tuttle’s work lies in his visionary use of materials and found objects that, by themselves, do not offer much visual appeal.
Constantin Brancusi and Richard Serra
BASEL Fondation Beyeler At first glance, the works of Constantin Brancusi and Richard Serra have little in common. Serra’s work is an elegantly restrained analysis of how form can define and even dominate a space.
Dispatch: Israel Museum
Walking up the grand promenade of the refreshed and expanded, $100 million, 20-acre campus of the Israel Museum is exhilarating, even exalting. Approximately five years in the planning and execution, the museum’s 45th-anniversary building project is the most ambitious cultural development enterprise in Israel’s history.
Nivi Alroy
TEL AVIV Fresh Paint 4 Interdisciplinary artist Nivi Alroy, recipient of last year’s Igal Ahouvi Art Collection prize, recently presented “Food Chain,” an exhibition of sculptural installations, an animation piece, and paintings.
“Italian Sculpture of the XXI Century”
MILAN Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro For “Italian Sculpture of the XXI Century,” curator Marco Meneguzzo selected works by 80 artists, ranging from elder statesmen (Nunzio and Dessì) to mature artists of the next generation (Cattelan, Bartolini, Dynys, Arienti, Moro, Beecroft, Cecchini, Sissi, Demetz, and Cuoghi), to younger, up-and-coming artists (Sassolino, Simeti, Previdi, and Gennari).
John Beech
NEW YORK Peter Blum Gallery Favoring simple constructions that look back to the heyday of New York Minimalism in the 1960s, John Beech works just a bit differently from the artists whose work has so strongly influenced him.
Ayano Ohmi
NEW YORK Ceres Gallery Ayano Ohmi, a long-time resident of New York City, originally comes from Japan. Her recent show featured groupings of slender totems that belong to neither the Western nor the Asian tradition; instead, they relate to the now worldwide experience of modernity.