Tag: Sculpture

E.V. Day interview: ‘I stiffened 200 thongs to look like jet fighters and strung them in the atrium of Philip Morris’s. That would not have happened in the 70s.’

Best-known for her 3D installations, artist E.V. Day talks about using Barbie dolls, ripped clothing, skulls, monofilament and light to explore sexuality and feminism, and why she’s glad the humour shows in her work
Agathe Sorel interview: ‘I never have an idea in advance, even now. Experimentation spreads through all my work’

Agathe Sorel talks about her battle to get printmaking recognised in art colleges, her unconventional use of the engraved line, the influence of maths and science on her work – and being kicked out of photo shops
Roger Hiorns: Seizure

151-189 Harper Road, London 3 September-2 November 2008 Harper Road is an unremarkable south London street, flanked by the blocks of large post-war housing estates, convenience stores, a new mosque and a small park. Yet one low-rise council house, derelict…
Mind and Body

The early work of Antony Gormley Antony Gormley (b.1950) is best known for his massive sculpture Angel of the North (1998) and Field for the British Isle (1993) both of which are testaments to the exciting work that Gormley creates.His…
Antony Gormley: Blind Light

Hayward Gallery, London 17 May-19 August 2007 An important retrospective is at the Hayward Gallery, London, until 19 August. The work covers a wide range of Gormley’s ideas. Earlier work is important, and given due precedence. But this exhibition seems…
l’atelier d’Alberto Giacometti

l’atelier d’Alberto Giacometti Centre Pompidou, Paris 17 October 2007-11 February 2008
Ursula von Rydingsvard: interview

This is her moment. Named Storm King Art Center’s artist of the year, she has just come off a travelling retrospective and is hard at work on three outsize projects.
An essay on sculpture. Studio International, 1969, Volume 177, No 907: 12-13

“It is this durability which gives the things of the world their relative independence form men who produced and used them, their ‘objectivity’ which makes them withstand, ‘stand against’, and endure, at least for a time, the voracious needs and…
A Runaway Girl at Home in New York: Louise Bourgeois at the Guggenheim

Louise Bourgeois, a travelling retrospective marking the artist’s nearly 100 years of living and more than seven decades of art-making, is an ambitious project. Opening in October 2007 at Tate Modern in London, the exhibit appeared at the Centre Georges…
The Sculpture of William Turnbull – book review

William Turnbull remains an important survivor of the British generation of sculptors whose early career was, for the most part, interrupted by war service. In his case, this episode helped to broaden his human and cultural experience. As an RAF…