CAROL BOVE – A PHENOMENOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE
New York based artist Carol Bove is best known for her large-scale sculptures made of crumpled stainless steel tubing, each combined with a large, circular glass disk. Presented in a monochrome environment, her installations consider the phenomenological experience of form…
ALBERT OEHLEN – BREAKING THE RULES OF PAINTING
Albert Oehlen uses abstract, figurative, and collaged elements—often applying self-imposed formal constraints—to disrupt the histories and conventions of modern painting while acknowledging the continuing significance of classical art. Approaching his practice as a perceptual challenge, he moves freely between planned…
SCALE, COLOR & VOLUME – SCULPTURES BY ANISH KAPOOR
Anish Kapoor is one of the most influential sculptors of his generation. Perhaps most famous for public sculptures that are both adventures in form and feats of engineering, Kapoor manoeuvres between vastly different scales, across numerous series of work. Immense…
Michel Perez Pollo – Sculptured Paintings
“Bolero” is the latest series of paintings by Cuban-born, Madrid-based painter Michel Pérez Pollo, comprising large- and small-scale paintings of abstracted glyph-like forms in rich, earthen hues. The title “Bolero” is drawn from the eponymous Cuban musical genre, which developed…
LYNN CHADWICK – THE VITAL FORCE OF ART
Born in 1914, Lynn Chadwick studied in London and, after living in Paris to learn French, worked as an architectural draftsman and a designer of furniture and textiles before becoming a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm during the Second…
FIGURE – OBJECT – LANDSCAPE. ICONIC SCULPTURE BY TONY CRAGG
In the late 1960s, Cragg, intrigued by the observation and study of the material world, left the field of science to pursue a career as an artist. Over half a century and more than 400 solo exhibitions later, Cragg has…
OTTO BOLL – LINES DRAWN IN THE AIR
Otto Boll is an artist who operates from an expressly minimalist sensibility. His works are acutely reduced forms of steel that hover in space, almost cutting through it ...
CHRISTOPHER WOOL AT GAGOSIAN GALLERY LONDON
Integrating both mechanical and analogue processes, Christopher Wool is back with a show at Gagosian Gallery, presenting recent works on paper, prints and sculptures at the gallery’s London premises. The range of processes employed in each of Wool’s multilayered works…
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