October 2014

Michael Hakimi

Berlin Krome Gallery The two objects in Michael Hakimi’s recent exhibition—works that oscillate somewhere between photography and sculpture—sat apart at the front and rear of the gallery. This situation alluded to a third, missing sculpture that ghosted the other two and broke apart the stillness of the space.

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Sarah Sze

Philadelphia The Fabric Workshop and Museum In Lines: A Brief History, anthropologist Tim Ingold observes, “What is a thing, or indeed a person, if not a tying together of the lines—the paths of growth and movement—of all the many constituents gathered there?”

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Franz Erhard Walther

New York Peter Freeman, Inc. I first discovered Franz Erhard Wal­ther’s work in a copy of Avalanche magazine at a newsstand in Harvard Square in 1972. Black and white photographs of Werksatz (1963–69) revealed his use of fabric as a medium to make sculpture.

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Peter Buggenhout

New York Gladstone Gallery Peter Buggenhout’s recent show, “Caterpillar Logic II,” acknowledged the process that transforms a homely creature into a delicate, beautiful butterfly. An equally striking, if not conventionally beautiful transition occurs in these works—two very large sculptures that, in their complexity, weight, and size, border on installation.

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Florida Sarasota Season of Sculpture 2014

Sarasota Season VII Every two years, the Sarasota Season of Sculpture, headed by Susan McLeod, installs sculptures on Bay­front Drive between the attractive waterfront walkway and the busy Tamiami Trail. This year, curators Fayanne Hayes and Andrew Maass selected 18 sculptures by eight artists; one sculptor had as many as six pieces included, others were

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“Other Primary Structures”

New York The Jewish Museum In 1966, Kynaston McShine presented “Primary Structures: Younger Ameri­can and British Sculptors” at the Jewish Museum. The show introduced barely known artists, including Donald Judd, Carl Andre, and Sol LeWitt, who worked in a pared-down visual language soon dubbed Mini­m­­al­ism.

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Courtney Egan – Botanical Light Sculpture

Short Term Memory 2009 single channel video installation, looping, silent in the group show Frontier Preachers at the Soap Factory, Minneapolis MN. Curator: Jayme McLellan Visitors to a satellite exhibition that accompanied the Prospect.2 New Orleans International Biennial in 2011 were startled to discover a clawfoot bathtub filled with oversize night-blooming cereus flowers in the

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