Joel Shapiro began working in the late 1960s at a time when traditional notions of sculpture were being radically redefined by Minimalism and Conceptual Art. In this exhibition, Shapiro will continue his investigation of the connection between line and form. As Shapiro himself explains, “Vitality of form is still something that I pursue.” Featured in [...]
Julie Speidel At Caldwell Snyder Gallery
Julie Speidel’s sculptures engage an extraordinary array of cultural influences, reaching back through antiquity to the stone- and bronze-age peoples of Europe, the early Buddhists of China, the indigenous tribes of her native Pacific Northwest, and on into twentieth-century modernism. Depending on our own spheres of knowledge, we may find in her work echoes of [...]
Yoshitomo Saito At Haines Gallery
In his ninth solo exhibition at Haines, Yoshitomo Saito presents a selection of new sculptural works in bronze, drawing from natural materials found in the Colorado landscape near Saito’s home. He produces these unique works himself, completing the laborious, technically daunting process of bronze casting alone in his studio foundry. The title piece, 1000 Prayers, [...]
Sudarshan Shetty At Galerie Daniel Templon
Born in 1961 in Mangalore, Sudarshan Shetty is a conceptual artist known for his enigmatic sculptural installations that are often animated. Sudarshan Shetty has created hybrid structures that question the fusion of Indian and Western traditions, but also domestic concerns and the issue of movement. This exhibition includes a disturbing car accident, made of wood [...]
Antony Gormley At Galerie Thaddeus Ropac
for the time being uses strategies of scale, mass and three-dimensional drawing to create an experiential field in which the viewer’s own passage through the space is tested and informed by a variety of sculptural foils. Using principles that derive either from Euclidean geometry or crystal-formation, Gormley applies a series of abstract rules to represent [...]
Art History: Gisant
One of the best places to find examples of this type of funereal sculpture is in the Basilica Saint-Denis. As you walk through the Basilica Saint-Denis you will come across many gisants – the sculptures on top of the tombs, that represent the entombed person either dying or in death. Always shown in a recumbent [...]
Photo of the Day: Sculpture of The Moor
The Moors guard the entrance of the very Baroque Morzin Palace at Nerudova 5 and were sculpted by the artist Ferdinand Brokof. Prague has no shortage of hefty, detailed, muscled men adorning the doorways of the city’s palaces, but The Moors are unique, in that they are Moors, quite exotic (at the time they were [...]
Winged Victory
The Winged Victory of Samothrace is that one piece in the Louvre that is constant. Throughout the years, as the museum has undergone changes, pieces have moved, pyramids have been built, she has always remained in the same spot at the entrance to the Denon wing of the museum. I always look for her on [...]
Michelangelo At The Louvre
The Louvre is not a place I would instinctively visit to see work by the famous sculptor Michelangelo Buonarotti.
