Home, 1997. Wood, mild steel, aluminum, lead, electrical fittings, and astroturf, 3 x 3 x 4 m. Carol Becker: I think we should start from the recent Johannesburg Biennale, and go backwards. Why did you choose to do what you did at the Biennale?
December 1998
Martin Puryear: The Call of History
North Cove Pylons at Battery Park City, 1995. Granite and stainless steel, north pylon: 72 x 5.75 ft; south pylon: 56.75 x 7 x 7 ft. Two new sculptural works and two design projects by Martin Puryear demonstrate his talents as a literal mold-maker and a figurative mold-breaker.
Clyde Connell: 1901–1998
Numbered and Filed #2, 1984. Mixed media, 74 x 32 x 22 in. Last April, one month before she died at the age of 96, the state of Louisiana designated its native daughter, sculptor Clyde Connell, a “legend.”
Calculated Risks: Showing the Big Stuff
Sculpture presents problems for a marketplace better suited to paintings and small-scale works, but some dealers surmount the difficulties with passion and vision…see the full review in December’s magazine.
Book Review: Alexander Calder, 1898-1976
by Marla Prather, Yale University Press, 40 pounds sterling; According to the Yale University Press catalogue, their new book on Calder “will for the first time present Calder in a serious light and a proper historical context.”
Book Review: Jeffrey Shaw: A Users Manual
Jeffrey Shaw. A Users Manual From Expanded Cinema toVirtual Reality. By Anne Marie Duguet, Heinrich Klotz, Peter Weibel, and Jeffrey Shaw. Editions ZKM/Cantz Verlag, 1997 Bilingual, English and German Pioneer virtual-media artist Jeffrey Shaw has maintained a prodigious output of interactive media artworks for many years, works which are both conceptually and technologically sophisticated.
Mark Hadjipateras
Athens lleana Tounta Art Center Artio Gallery Two solo exhibitions have presented the works of Mark Hadjipateras in Athens galleries. The first one took place at the lleana Tounta Art Center and the second a month later, at the Artio Gallery.
Luigi Mainolfi, Giuseppe Maraniello
Pesaro, Italy Pescheria Center for Vrsual Art This year the Pescheria Center for Visual Art held an exhibition of works by two artists who have been prominent on the contemporary art scene for many years. The work of Luigi Mainolfi and Giuseppe Maraniello on exhibit in the beautiful loggia of the Pescheria reconfirms the persistence
Max Ernst: Sculptures, Houses, Landscape
Paris Centre Georoes Pom pidou A founder of Dada and member of the surrealist movement, Max Ernst was largely recognized for his paintings (not to mention his fleeting relationships with women such as Peggy Guggenheim) but his sculpture has most often been overlooked.
HorseHead Sculpture Project ’98
Seattle Sand Point Naval Station The former Sand Point Naval Station north of the University of Washington is attracting a lot of attention for hosting various indoor and outdoor art projects since it was consigned over to the City of Seattle by the U.S.
