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Detail of Jessica Stockholder, “Angled Triangle” (2014) "Amid all the predictable fare in Art Basel Miami Beach’s Public sector, installed in Collins Park alongside the Bass Museum of Art — your Ernesto Neto hammock contraption, your Justin Matherly concrete-and-walker figure, your shiny bronze Elmgreen & Dragset provocation, your Georg Baselitz primitivist giant — is a set of bravura works by women artists. Their glowing, ungainly, and frequently flippant sculptures are improbably well suited to the setting."
"La sculpture et le mouvement", tel pourrait être le thème de cette exposition de Camille Claudel à Roubaix. Pour les 150 ans de Camille Claudel, le conservateur du musée la Piscine, expose 160 oeuvres de cette sculptrice de la fin du 19e siècle. Camille Claudel - Au miroir d'un art nouveau 8 nov. 2014 - 8 févr. 2015 La Piscine, Roubaix http://www.roubaix-lapiscine.com/publications/217/camille-claudel-1864-1943.html
Victoria Miro [London] is delighted to present a new body of sculptures and paintings by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama dedicated to her iconic depiction of pumpkins. The exhibition, which opened on 16 September 2014 comprises two elements: the main gallery houses a new body of paintings and large scale mosaic pumpkins which will be on show until 4 October; whilst a major new series of bronze sculptures will be on display in the gallery's unique water garden until 20 December.
MELBOURNE.- A sleuth of giant, fluorescent and feathered free-spirited polar bears greet visitors to the National Gallery of Victoria’s Federation Court this winter in a major suite of new sculptural works by Italian artist Paola Pivi.
Paola Pivi: You started it…I finish it is an installation encompassing eight life-size sculptures of bears, adorned with neon-coloured feathers. These flamboyant figures adopt various attitudes and guises, playfully occupying the space of Federation Court, greeting visitors, posing and frolicking: one bear leaps from a balcony; others approach each other as if to dance, or engage in deep philosophical conversation, whilst others recline in joyful, carefree abandon. http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/exhibitions/paola-pivi
From 15 February 2014, Manchester Art Gallery will stage the UK’s most ambitious exhibition of works by Portuguese contemporary artist Joana Vasconcelos. Fresh from her success representing Portugal at the 55th Venice Biennale, Vasconcelos will bring her seductive and subversive large-scale sculptures to Manchester for an exclusive site specific exhibition. This major new show features over twenty of the Portuguese artist’s most significant sculptures, which fill our main exhibition spaces, adorn the outside of our building and permeate the whole gallery. It includes new and recent works – most on show in the UK for the first time.. The exhibition will include new and recent works, the majority of which are previously unseen in the UK. Joana Vasconcelos, Time Machine Manchester Art Gallery, from 15 febr. 2014
"Toutes les histoires de la sculpture au XXiéme siècle mentionnent son
oeuvre sans exception et pourtant Germaine Richier (1902-1959) est
une artiste hors norme. Toute son oeuvre se rapporte à l’être humain et à la possibilité de lui donner une forme plastique appropriée. « Seul l’humain compte » déclara un jour l’artiste à propos de son travail. Formée à la tradition de la sculpture figurative, qu’elle fréquenta assidûment à Paris auprès d’Émile-Antoine Bourdelle dont elle fut l’élève particulière, Germaine Richier suivit une voie artistique singulière dont l’originalité et en même temps la diversité étaient telles qu’il est aujourd’hui encore malaisé de classer son oeuvre dans un courant précis. On l’associa, à l’instar de celle d’Alberto Giacometti, avec qui elle étudia chez Bourdelle, au mouvement de la philosophie existentialiste. [...]" Germaine Richier Kunstmuseum Bern, 29.11.2013 – 06.04.2014 http://www.kunstmuseumbern.ch/fr/visiter_0-129.html
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Louise Nevelson (1899 – 1988), artiste américaine d’origine russe, est une figure marquante d’un art moderne au croisement de la rigueur intellectuelle d’un Marcel Duchamp et de l’énergie formaliste d’un Picasso. Parmi les premières d’un art de l’assemblage sombre, elle fut exposée au MOMA en 1959, à la Biennale de Venise en 62, pour une grande rétrospective au Whitney Museum of America Art en 67, et chez son galeriste parisien Claude Bernard, en 1986. Moins connue que l’autre Louise (Bourgeois), Nevelson cultive tout autant une certaine dimension féministe dans son œuvre. Toutes ses sculptures, faites souvent de morceaux de bois peints en noir, sont taillées « brut de décoffrage », sans fioritures. Souvent monumentales, les pièces de Louise Nevelson témoignent d’un élan de modernité où tout semblait encore possible. Louise Nevelson 55 – 70
Cardi Gallery Milano
jusqu’au 20 décembre 2014
"Très attendue, la nouvelle exposition du musée La Piscine met en lumière la sculptrice Camille Claudel, artiste majeure de la fin du XIXe siècle et début du XXe, personnage tourmenté et à l’histoire tumultueuse avec Auguste Rodin. Pour le 150e anniversaire de la naissance de Claudel, le musée rassemble 150 œuvres, la plupart des créations de l’artiste, dont La Petite Châtelaine..." Camille Claudel. Au miroir d'un art nouveau 8 nov. 2014 - 8 févr. 2015 La Piscine, Roubaix http://www.roubaix-lapiscine.com/publications/217/camille-claudel-1864-1943.html
WAKEFIELD.- Yorkshire Sculpture Park presents Wp Wp Wp, an exhibition by UK artist Fiona Banner from 20 September 2014, featuring ambitious new project, Chinook, and related work. The onomatopoeic title of the exhibition mimics the sound of helicopter blades in action, as commonly used in movie storyboards and comics.
Highlighting the absence of a helicopter’s body, Chinook is formed from two sets of helicopter blades – suspended from the ceiling of YSP’s Longside Gallery – rotating in opposition to one another at various speeds. Carefully choreographed to overlap, the blades give the sensation that they might collide, an effect that is both mesmerizing and unnerving. Fiona Banner: Wp Wp Wp 20.09.14 - 04.01.15 Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK http://www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/fiona-banner-wp-wp-wp
NEW YORK, NY.- Hauser & Wirth is presenting Monika Sosnowska’s ‘Tower’, a mammoth new work that conjoins architecture and sculpture in order to explore the politics and poetics of space. Known for large-scale, site-specific installations, Sosnowska creates psychologically charged art rooted in existing structures and influenced by the built environment. She manipulates forms – collapsing, twisting, and squeezing steel – into disorienting configurations that not only alter perceptions of physical space but challenge our certainties about memory and our assumptions about societal structures.
‘Tower’ is on view from 5 September through 25 October at Hauser & Wirth’s downtown gallery at 511 West 18th Street. http://www.hauserwirth.com/exhibitions/2219/monika-sosnowska-tower/view/
"[...] For more than 50 years, Pepper has blazed a trail in the world of sculpture, with work in major galleries and public spaces around the world. But, somehow, she is still not particularly well known in Britain. Able to transform the hardest of materials – steel, iron, stone – into beautiful, organic forms, she is often compared to her contemporaries Louise Bourgeois and Louise Nevelson. That Pepper is not only still working – her first ever show in Britain opens in London on Wednesday – but is still, at the age of 91, making “breakthroughs”, is enough to silence anyone who believes that old age is the enemy of creativity. [...]" Beverly Pepper: New Works 2 July - 31 July 2014 Marlborough Fine Art, London http://www.marlboroughfineart.com/exhibition-Beverly-Pepper-New-Works-256407.html
"No major exhibition on the developments of 20th-century sculpture fails to feature Germaine Richier (1902-1959). All in all, she is indeed a highly exceptional artist. Her entire oeuvre is oriented toward humankind and finding appropriate semblances that express humanity. As Germaine Richier once said about her art: “humanity alone counts.” Germaine Richier is heiress to the figurative tradition in sculpture, which she studied intensively as a private pupil of Émile-Antoine Bourdelle in Paris. She pursued, however, a very independent and extremely diversified artistic path, making it difficult still today to classify her work as belonging to a specific style or movement. Her art is associated with the tenets of existentialist philosophy just like Alberto Giacometti’s art, who studied together with her at Bourdelle’s studio.[...]" Germaine Richier Kunstmuseum Bern, 29.11.2013 – 06.04.2014 http://www.kunstmuseumbern.ch/en/visit_0-129.html
The Museum of Modern Art’s grand, sometimes grating 40-year survey of the German sculptor Isa Genzken is a disturbance in the force of the New York art world. It counters the season’s trend of big retrospectives devoted to male artists and increases from a paltry four to a still paltry five the number of full-dress sixth-floor retrospectives the Modern has bestowed upon women since taking back its expanded building nine years ago. “Isa Genzken: Retrospective” also makes the museum feel alive and part of the art world, rather than a tourist destination where everyone lines up for the Magritte show or throngs the modernist parts of the collection even as galleries devoted to overthought, pleasure-averse displays of recent art stand virtually empty. The dour, largely color-free sampling of art since 1980 in the museum’s large second-floor galleries is a perfect example. "Isa Genzken: Retrospective", through March 10, 2014 at The Museum of Modern Art http://www.moma.org/
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