In New York, at the opening of his recent show at Sean Kelly's new space, Antony Gormley explained that
several of his abstract sculptures have figurative ancestors.
Not exact matches
The site - specific immersive installation features two 170 foot murals and
several abstract wooden
sculptures intended to raise questions about the current economic, ecological, and civic state
of the nation, as well as the individual's role in it.
What's on view:
Several puffy,
abstract paintings that look like they're filled with colorful gel;
sculptures assembled out
of household - size objects in steel, sometimes coated with beads and materials that look like straw and resin; often, they're outfitted with holes in them
In addition, the exhibition includes
several examples
of his
abstract ink drawings on paper, mostly from 2015, whose intimate and moody quality open the door to another dimension, that
of Shapiro's solitary private realm, in turn they augment and complicate how we view his
sculptures.
The idealized,
abstract quality
of the forty - five objects displayed, including
sculpture, paintings, and
several funerary masks, demonstrated the Egyptian belief that figurative representation was not only the physical record
of an individual, but his / her link to immortality.
Gallerie Nascht St. Stephan brought
several new Katherina Grosse
abstract paintings, Gavin Brown's showcased a striking combination
of Rob Pruitt paintings and Nate Lowman
sculptures, and Nicolai Wallner's Jeppe Hein metalic wall works and hilarious David Shrigley drawings all stood out.
Several pieces
of his public
sculpture have attracted controversy, although his reputation as one
of the most innovative
abstract sculptors remains intact.
Over the past ten years, Evertz has also curated
several critically - acclaimed artist retrospectives and surveys
of abstract painting at Hunter College, including Visual Sensations: Robert Swain Paintings, 1967 - 2010; Presentational Painting III; Seeing Red: An International Exhibition
of Nonobjective Painting (co-curated with Michael Fehr); Set in Steel: The
Sculpture of Antoni Milkowski; and Mac Wells: Light into Being (co-curated with Robert Swain).
Referencing Calder's stabiles are
several steel
sculptures by Huang Rui are connected to Calder's steel
sculptures and include two
abstract representations
of animals entitled Monkey and Cat.