LONDON Thomas Dane Beyond the straightforward binaries of masculine and feminine though, there is something Cyborgian, in a Donna Haraway sort of fashion, about Benglis’s tentacle-like mirrored floor sculptures, which one can imagine having been spawned from the severing of some monstrous creature, their puckered ends curling upward like truncated limbs.
LONDON Hayward Gallery An extraordinary feat of planning and labor, the exhibition, which covers 25 years, encompasses around 20 interconnected rooms and corridors, involving 40 tons of sand, 5,000 feet of reclaimed timber, and the skills of more than 30 builders and technicians.
Berlinde De Bruyckere’s work inhabits a psychological terrain of pathos, tenderness, and unease. Her sculptures express vulnerability and fragility, the suffering body—human and animal—as well as the overwhelming power of nature (and time).
Boston ICA/Boston Through September 4, 2023 Simone Leigh’s exhibition at the ICA/Boston (traveling to the Hirshhorn in fall 2023, and to LACMA and CAAM in summer 2024) includes 10 works from Leigh’s historic presentation for the U.S.
Oscar Tuazon works in and out of and between sculpture, architecture, and the meditative spirit. His practice also expands toward activism related to land and water access and infrastructure. Often using architectural techniques and materials, he produces quasi-functional objects, parts or representations of spaces, and constructions that are open to use and appropriation.
LONDON Tate Modern This exhibition marks the first major show in the U.K. of works by the extraordinary Slovak artist Maria Bartuszová (1936–96), whose abstract plaster sculptures are replete with organic forms both fragile and solid, sometimes tortured and always corporeal.
From the Sculptor’s Studio, by Sculpture contributing editor Ina Cole, features candid, in-depth conversations with 20 artists who have helped to define, and redefine, sculpture in the late 20th and early 21 centuries.
On the Boca Raton Innovation Campus (BRiC) in South Florida, artist Hubert Phipps has installed Rocket, a 30-foot-tall retrofuturistic stainless steel sculpture weighing almost 10 tons.
Sabine Senft, Texas Sculpture Group President and Wells Mason, Texas Sculpture Group Board Member discuss art with María Carolina Baulo, art historian, curator and arts writer-critic (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Daniel Kunitz, Editor-in-Chief of Sculpture.
Watch Beili Liu, the cover artist for Sculpture’s March/April 2021 issue, speak with Kay Whitney virtually from her Austin studio about her material process and her work Rising Water.
