London Sprovieri Eschewing John Ruskin’s famous 19th-century treatise The Stones of Venice, contemporary Italian artist Giorgio Andreotta Calò turns instead to the wood of Venice. With an interest in the literal foundations of the place, Calò has taken the massive wooden stakes that support the “floating city” as his sculptural starting point.
Miami Perez Art Museum Miami “Tàpies: From Within,” the first major survey of Antoni Tàpies’s work since his death in 2012, featured 50 paintings, drawings, and three-dimensional pieces chosen from the artist’s own collection and from the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona.
New York Elga Wimmer Gallery Nicola L., a French-born, New York-based sculptor of considerable talent, who has won recognition over a period of decades, recently restaged “Atmosphere in White,” a comprehensive show of her work originally presented at the Liverpool Biennial in 2014.
Chicago Perimeter Gallery In an age when creating the next new thing is pervasive, Barbara Cooper, a Chicago-based sculptor, offers a refreshing take on art, with nature as her starting point. Rather than compete with nature, she evoked its depths by using repurposed materials in her recent exhibition, “Repurposing: Small Sculpture.”
Salt Lake City Utah Museum of Fine Art Artists visiting the state of Utah typically make a pilgrimage to Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970), but they rarely meet the artist head-on, on his own terms. Such was the case, though, with Conrad Bakker’s Robert Smithson Library and Book Club, installed as part of the Utah
New York newmuseum Gatherings of artists into annuals, biennials, and the like have become so common and so global that they now function, like the equally ubiquitous art fairs, as art shopping malls whose main purpose is spotting the latest fashion or the next big trend.
Marc Quinn’s All nature flows through us (2011) is an innovative, 10-meter-diameter sculpture sited in a small river north of Oslo, Norway, at the sculpture park of the Kistefos-Museet. It was no easy feat to install.
“Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.” Sofie Muller is fond of quoting this statement by Hippocrates, the famous Greek physician and founder of the science of medicine, fascinated by the fact that even
Robert Morris has had a long and diverse career. Primarily known for his highly regarded sculpture, he has also been an abstract painter, a gifted draftsman, a performance artist, an erudite theorist, a political activist, a long-time college professor, a contributor to Artforum, and the author of a Masters thesis on Form-Classes in the Art
Artist, educator, and innovator, Mary Bates Neubauer, the recipient of the International Sculpture Center’s 2015 Outstanding Educator Award, bridges ancient and cutting-edge technologies. Trained and first hired as a foundry sculptor, she’s broadened her practice at Arizona State University’s sculpture program in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, where she is a professor
