Both the reflecting surface on the wall and the elongated
floor sculpture evoke a body through fragments, allusions, and lacunae.
The Lisson Gallery exhibition presents for the first time a new series of earth works of varied formats: table sculptures modelling micro and macro-landscapes, wall and
floor sculptures evoking the natural forms of rock and coral, and works on canvas coated with pigments mined from the earth in a gritty take both on painterly traditions and on Kapoor's own earlier pigment sculptures and void forms.
Not exact matches
Ursula von Rydingsvard's Shadows Remain is a selection of cedar
sculptures including monumental freestanding
floor pieces that are at once abstract and referential,
evoking forces of nature, anthropomorphic forms and utilitarian objects.
Sculptures by Josh Faught, Françoise Grossen, Charles LeDray, and Robert Rohm — crocheted, knotted, and sewn — variously lean against the wall, sprawl, pile on the
floor, and hang to
evoke the body by its covering, adornment, and poses only possible through their shared soft construction.
There are four reliefs made from curled and dangling copper - clad plastic that brought to mind the wall - mounted painted
sculptures of 78 - year - old Frank Stella, and a
floor piece that
evoked 75 - year - old Richard Serra's rolled lead works from the 1960s.
Nearby, Sosnowska's gigantic metal
sculpture bulged out of the gallery just barely enclosing it, while Merz's
floor fluorescent piece
evoked Nauman's own linguistic turns with fluorescents.