Archives For Sculpture

My favorite shows at the Met have been when the curators mix the old and new, the classical and the modern and the high and the low.  The Met sculpture exhibition Is astounding and for this exhibition it takes a village of curators.  Run don’t walk to see this show:

Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and The Body (1300–Now)  is one of the best shows this year and every piece is a knock out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Curator Credits:

Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300–Now) is curated by Luke Syson, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Chairman of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, and Sheena Wagstaff, Leonard A. Lauder Chairman of Modern and Contemporary Art, both at The Met, with Brinda Kumar, Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, The Met, and Emerson Bowyer, Searle Associate Curator of European Painting and Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago, with the assistance of Elyse Nelson, Research Associate, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Met.

https://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2018/like-life

Armory Show / 2017 installation. This is quite amazing…

From the folks at http://www.studiodrift.com/

 

Drifter by Studio Drift

As always with the big art fairs you have to wade through the bad and ugly to find the good (or in my case something with a quality transcendence).

A couple of works that stick (way) out from the pack from the Parcours Projects at Art Basel 2016 (which are all the big installation works all over town). The Allan McCollum Shapes Project Spinoffs 2005-2016 is a real knockout as well as Bernar Venet’s Arcs in Disorder

Art Basel in Europe
Basel, June 16 to19, 2016

 

Screen shot 2016-05-26 at 6.20.41 PM

 

 

Screen shot 2016-05-26 at 6.20.55 PM

 

 

 

 

Parcours Projects Art Basel 2016

Olafur Eliasson Sphere

February 5, 2016 — Leave a comment

Wow…

Video of it here before light was added: http://www.gogglepix.com/olafur-eliasson-sphere/

http://www.olafureliasson.net/

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Olafur Eliasson Sphere

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With Anselm Kiefer now moving past 70 years old he seem to be even more consumed with time and the constant destruction and renewal of life itself. His production and energy seem to be at all time peak given what this wonderful video by Art Documentaries gives us. Not only do we get to finally see his incredible studios but also his humor, generosity and the power of what one can do with vast amounts of money coupled with extraordinary lines of thinking.

Here is a man who’s thoughts were once translated in paint, lead and straw are now expressed in his grand palace’s of the mind. Every artist who thinks they are an artist should view this film and start all over from the beginning – or just give up – as there is no one I can think of doing work on this scale of shear magnitude, raw talent and intellect.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anselm Kiefer Documentary