Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective-Major Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum opens

NEW YORK, NY.- For more than 50 years, Los Angeles artist Ken Price, who died on February 24, 2012 at the age of 77, made innovative works that helped redefine contemporary sculpture by advancing the medium of clay well beyond its traditionally assigned roles. Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum of Art—a long overdue major exhibition showcasing the artist’s unique and groundbreaking approach to sculpture—is the first museum retrospective of the artist’s work in New York. By assembling the [...]

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts opens exhibition of works by American artist Dale Chihuly

MONTREAL.- From June 8 to October 20, 2013 the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts presents the artwork of the incomparable American artist Dale Chihuly. At the invitation of Nathalie Bondil, the Museum’s Director and Chief Curator, Chihuly has executed a stunning exhibition of glass sculptures specifically designed for the Museum’s interior architecture, with works that reveal this artist’s powerful creative vision. Born in 1941, Chihuly is recognized worldwide for having revolutionized the Studio Glass movement, elevating glass, his favourite material, from the realm [...]

Three new exhibitions at The Noguchi Museum reveal aspects of Isamu Noguchi’s creative process

LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- The Noguchi Museum has organized two exhibitions featuring highlights from the collection, including recent acquisitions presented at the Museum for the first time. Also on view for the summer is a compelling display revealing how Isamu Noguchi used paper as a medium for developing and executing ideas for sculpture and stage sets. The exhibitions are on view through September 1, 2013. Director Jenny Dixon stated, “We are delighted to showcase works from the collection reflecting such a range [...]

Senegalese sculptor Ousmane Sow in last French show before Senegal homecoming

BESANCON (AFP).- Senegalese sculptor Ousmane Sow, considered one of Africa’s foremost artists, inaugurated a retrospective in Besancon on Saturday, his last exhibit in his adoptive France before moving all of his works to a museum he is building in his home country. The exhibit will include all the sculptures he still owns, including his latest and ongoing series entitled “Great Men” of historical figures from Charles de Gaulle to Nelson Mandela. The 94-year-old anti-apartheid icon, who was hospitalised on June 8, is [...]

Roger Hiorns’ blue crystal work Seizure, 2008/2013 opens at Yorkshire Sculpture Park

WAKEFIELD.- Arts Council Collection, which is run by Southbank Centre on behalf of Arts Council England, announce dthat Seizure, 2008/2013 by Roger Hiorns, will open to the public at Yorkshire Sculpture Park from 15 June 2013 following acquisition by the Arts Council Collection. Seizure was gifted to the Arts Council Collection in 2011 by the artist, Artangel and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation through the Art Fund, with the support of The Henry Moore Foundation. The work, now known as Seizure, 2008/2013 will be [...]

Giant crane lifts Henry Moore’s Large Reclining Figure into Rijksmuseum gardens

AMSTERDAM.- A giant crane lifted Henry Moore’s Large Reclining Figure 1983 into position in the Rijksmuseum gardens earlier today. The sculpture arrived from the Henry Moore Foundation in Perry Green by special transport. The large-scale reclining figure, made of white fibreglass, is over nine metres long and weighs 2,000 kilos. The sculpture will be positioned in the Rijksmuseum gardens and its angular shapes offer a spectacular contrast to the 19th-century museum building, the museum’s permanent classical sculpture collection and the gardens themselves. Director [...]

Anthony Caro’s Park Avenue sculpture series on view at Gagosian Gallery in London

LONDON.- Gagosian Gallery presents Anthony Caro’s Park Avenue sculpture series. This is his first exhibition with the gallery. Steel pipes, beams, disks, and agricultural tools make up Caro’s latest abstract sculptures, which reveal fresh aspects from every viewpoint. The works evolved out of the planning process for an enormous public sculpture he envisioned for a busy thoroughfare in New York City, and as such are prompted by a sense of ground-parallel speed. The long, low pipes of Clouds, for example, create a [...]

Hyper-realistic wooden sculptures of plants and flowers by Yoshihiro Suda at Faggionato Gallery

LONDON.- The Faggionato Gallery announces their solo exhibition of the Japanese artist Yoshihiro Suda. The exhibition, Suda Yoshihiro, showcases his hyper-realistic wooden sculptures of plants and flowers. The nature of the environment or gallery space is central to Suda’s creativity. For Suda, the sculptures are ‘interventions’; subtle additions to an existing space or display. Each sculpture is only half of the work of art – the other half is their installation. The element of surprise is core to Suda’s work. In October [...]

First dedicated exhibition of Eduardo Chillida’s sculptures opens at Ordovas in London

LONDON.- Opening at Ordovas this summer, Chillida: From Iron to Light is the first dedicated exhibition of Chillida’s sculptures to take place in London for almost twenty years. Now regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern sculpture, Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002) produced an extraordinary body of work over a period of fifty years, establishing him among Spain’s most distinctive and internationally acclaimed artists. Organised in collaboration with the artist’s estate, Chillida: From Iron to Light will go on public display from 5 [...]

Exhibition of new sculpture by Thomas Houseago opens at Gagosian Gallery in Rome

ROME.- Gagosian Gallery presents “Roman Figures,” an exhibition of new sculpture by Thomas Houseago. Engaging in a continuous dialogue with the past, Houseago retraces the history of figurative sculpture through the conditions of his own time. Drawing upon mythology, African tribal art, cartoon imagery, Italian Mannerism, science fiction, and robots, he wrests new vitality from the classical figure. Houseago’s giants have iron rebar skeletons and are made from plaster, hemp, and wood. Rough from jigsaw cuts and incorporating drawn parts, these visceral [...]

David Hayes sculpture on view at the Snite Museum of Art

NOTRE DAME, IN.- An art exhibition organized in memory of Notre Dame alum David Hayes ‘53, who died in April 2013, at the age of 82 (b. 1931) went on view Friday, May 31. After graduating from Notre Dame, Hayes undertook graduate work at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he studied with American sculptor David Smith and graduated with a MFA in 1955. Throughout an artistic career that spanned six decades, he created graceful sculptures abstracted from organic forms encountered in his [...]

Vibrant kinetic sculptures created by artist Michael Landy on view at the National Gallery in London

LONDON.- This summer, the National Gallery’s Sunley Room comes alive with an exhibition of vibrant kinetic sculptures created by artist Michael Landy. Inspired by works in the Gallery’s collection, Michael Landy: Saints Alive is the culmination of Landy’s position as the Gallery’s current Rootstein Hopkins Associate Artist in residence. Landy’s imagination has been captured by images of saints in the collection; the colourful and detailed portrayal of their lives, their attributes, and stories of their single-mindedness and strength have provided powerful stimuli [...]

Yorkshire Sculpture Park plans to rescue historic building

WAKEFIELD.- Yorkshire Sculpture Park is campaigning to save one of the oldest surviving buildings on the Bretton Estate and transform it into a gallery space. The 270-year-old YSP Chapel is in an urgent state of repair and must be restored soon, in order to keep it open to the public. The Park’s fundraisers have secured financial support from English Heritage, Country Houses Foundation, The Wolfson Foundation and The Pilgrim Trust but are £100,000 short of the £500,000 needed to complete the full [...]

The New York Botanical Garden exhibits Philip Haas’s monumental sculpture series Four Seasons

NEW YORK, NY.- Internationally-renowned contemporary artist Philip Haas is the subject of a one person show, titled Four Seasons, at The New York Botanical Garden May 18–October 27, 2013. Haas’s work is distinguished by meticulously rendered tableaux seeking to illuminate the source of creativity, often through contemporary interpretations of masterworks from the history of art. In Four Seasons, Haas has created four monumental, 15-foot-tall, portrait busts that reference each of the seasons and are displayed in the round. In the artist’s exploration of [...]

Major outdoor exhibition of Mark di Suvero’s sculptures near Golden Gate Bridge

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- From May 22, 2013, to May 26, 2014, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in partnership with the National Park Service (NPS) and Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy presents a major outdoor exhibition of sculptor Mark di Suvero’s works near the Golden Gate Bridge: eight large-scale steel sculptures installed at historic Crissy Field, a former airfield and military base that is now one of the most-visited national park sites within the Golden Gate National Parks. Curated by SFMOMA Director [...]