Tag: sculpture

• August 29, 2017

  Jeff Koons

  [Versailles is] very much a place for show—and my works want to show themselves. They’re extroverted. The spaces and the major salons at Versailles are about public interactions. But there are surprising, wonderful parts. Whenever the king or queen would move, their environment would change with them. So if the king walked through the gardens,…
• March 30, 2017

  Mel Bochner

  “Primary Structures” is a misnomer for an important exhibition at the Jewish Museum (29 April – 12 June). A qualifying addition to the title is “Sculpture by Younger British and American Sculptors.” This subtitle reveals most strikingly the extent of misunderstanding about the new art. The best work in this exhibition is not sculpture. In…
• December 30, 2012

  Sanford Biggers

  “Sweet Funk” was a thematic introspective featuring Blossom, a piano growing out of a tree. Another piano piece, Kalimba, consists of an upright piano cut in half and rotated, with a tall wall between the pieces. Both halves still can play, so two people can sit down, play a duet, and walk away without having…
• December 17, 2012

  Richard Serra

  What they do… is they center you. And when you walk inside, you almost can touch their volume. They compress the space, even though they’re quite large. They make the space almost palpable. — Richard Serra, in conversation with CHARLIE ROSE, 2007
• December 15, 2012

  Maurizio Cattelan

  The Guggenheim Museum has a cinematic quality; if you work in that space it unwinds. I would say that my installation is static but the way the visitors see it could be a personal cinematic viewing. I love movies. Yes. Well, more than cinematic, it’s like the sculptures are movies compressed into one still, suggesting…