Alongside
his suspended installation work is his collection of pedestal driven sculpture and jewelry that is often made out of a single piece of brass.
Not exact matches
Feher's
work has varied in size, from a commission for a courthouse in Illinois, to an
installation made of
suspended bottles at the Chinati Foundation, to a recent room - size
work made of vinyl flagging tape at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. (which represented him in New York), to smaller, more precious sculptures that could be easily broken if accidentally kicked.
The on - site
installations program IN / SITU, selected by a major international curator, and EXPO Projects organized by the fair Directors, feature large - scale
suspended sculptures and site - specific
works within the exhibition hall, alongside EXPO VIDEO, featuring a dynamic curated screening program for film, video, and new media
works, and Special Exhibitions booths highlighting non-profit organizations.
When you enter The Sun Teaches Us That History Is Not Everything, one of the first
works you might overlook amongst the other more colorful
installations is a large
suspended orb slowly spinning in the center of the room.
Thus, for Parker's defining
installation of the
suspended fragments of a blown - up shed, Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991), we're given both a personal and a political context behind the piece: the effect on the artist of living in London during a period of IRA bomb threats; her initially ambivalent attitude towards the army — whom she subsequently
worked with to blow up the shed — and how she felt about the event itself.
Its programme has included Cornelia Parker, who
suspended gleaming pools of flattened metal from the ceiling for her 2011
installation Thirty Pieces of Silver, and a 2013 display of
works by Bruce Nauman drawn from Tate's Artist Rooms lending collection.
The exhibition will present new
work alongside a key selection of
works by Gupta from recent years, including her major
installation Singing Cloud, 2008 - 09, an amorphous cluster of 4000 black microphones
suspended from the ceiling.
Opening: «Hew Locke: The Wine Dark Sea» at Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art An Anglo - Guyanese artist who's well known for
work dealing with issues of race and colonialism, Hew Locke makes his New York solo debut with an
installation of 35 boat sculptures
suspended at various scales from the gallery's ceiling like a magnificent fleet.
The exhibition is an interactive and colorful
installation that echoes the original
works from 1954: clear plastic tubes filled with water and bright ink hang
suspended in the main rotunda, illuminated by the light streaming down from Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic oculus.
These observations are clear in Carvalhosa's recent
works, such as Sum of Days (2011), a monumental site - specific
installation for the MoMA's atrium, and Sala de Espera (2013) installed at Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, in which throughout the space, twenty - four wooden street posts were
suspended in dialogue with Niemeyer's architecture.
Recent
works include The Gifts, (2010) a
suspended installation of 999 objects given to the artist by the public and wrapped in cloth.
The exhibition, which extends on over 1,000 square meters, presents pieces made by the Swiss artist in over forty years, from her early
works of the»80s to the
installation Pixelwald, expressly conceived for the Kunsthaus Zurich, a dreamlike constantly - changing forest composed by 3000 LED lamps
suspended on wires, a «screen exploding in space» as Rist herself defined it.
This May, Pousttchi's
work came to Chicago as part of a solo
installation and newly created site - specific
work,
Suspended Mies, at The Arts Club of Chicago.
The artist's use of tie rods to
suspend the massive beams in place added to the precarious nature of the
installation and collared the viewer into re-imagining one's physical relation to the space and
work.
Belonging to the first group can be found
works as Cerith Wyn Evan's «Composition foe flutes II» (2011), a
suspended sculpture which emits electroacoustic sounds, or Susan Philipsz's auditory
installation «Long gone».
This year, the guiding conceit — inspired by the writings of Camillo Sitte, a long - dead Austrian urbanist — is a system of four squares that are variously dominated by a sprawling, inflated
work from Otto Piene; a Sue Williamson
installation consisting of glass bottles
suspended from the ceiling with fishing nets, each one engraved with the name of a person ensnared in the slave trade, along with information about his or her country of origin, sale price and more; a 1967 Tony Smith sculpture; and a triangular array of steel tiles by Carl Andre.
Pae White, who
works in sculpture and
installation, often using cardboard cut - outs, delicate wire constructions,
suspended mobiles, or evocative wall paintings, had a solo exhibition at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, in 2004; her
work in the Biennial is a large «smoke» tapestry.
These earlier discrete
works, which were featured in an exhibition at Pace Gallery, New York, in 2005, subsequently evolved into room - sized
installations of
suspended, rectilinear elements that he exhibited at Pace Gallery, New York (2010), Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2011), and Rice University Art Gallery, Houston (2012), among other institutions.
In addition to radically subverting the distinctions between painting and sculpture, these freely
suspended, monumentally - scaled
works reinvented the way in which painting is encountered, making the act of viewing an environmental, «all - over» experience that paved the way for immersive
installation art of the following decades.
The first in the Artist Rooms series is to be a grouping of drawings, two late
works,
suspended sculptures and a vitrine
installation by French - American artist Bourgeois.
Meanwhile, Urs Fischer's
installation of body orifices
suspended from the ceiling, presented here for the first time in New York, receives a surprising digital extension in a new
work by Darren Bader, Fischer's former assistant and sometimes collaborator.
These observations are evident in his more recent
works such as Soma dos Dias -LCB- A Sum of Days -RCB-, a monumental site - specific
installation made for the Octagon project at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (2010) and at the MoMA atrium (2011), and the
installation Sala de Espera -LCB- Waiting Room -RCB- at MAC - USP (2013), in which twenty - four wooden posts were
suspended in the exhibition space, in conjunction with the Niemeyer architecture.
Patching and piecing remains an important element for the show with the exhibition of new quilt - like pieces on canvas, floor sculptures,
suspended articles, as well as larger
installation work.
These observations are clear in Carvalhosa's recent
works, such as Sum of Days (2011), a monumental site - specific
installation for the MoMA's atrium, and Sala de Espera (2013) installed at Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, in which throughout the space, twenty - four wooden street posts were
suspended in dialogue with Niemeyer's architecture.
The exhibition will also feature pieces by John Baldessari, whose
works would often draw viewer's attention to minor details, absences or the spaces between things; Alfredo Jaar, multidisciplinary artists best known for his
installation works; John McCracken, whose monochromatic sculptures explore the relationship between objects and their surrounding spaces; Bruce Nauman, whose conceptual
works conceptual
works that explore space, language, and the body; Lorna Simpson, whose photo - conceptualist
works investigate the relationship between image and text; and Vassilakis Takis, a kinetic artist who uses electromagnetism to
suspend human beings and objects in space.
Her brand new
works, commissioned and created especially for this exhibition, include a large - scale sculptural
installation, with large plaster
works meticulously coloured by hand, and another
work suspended from the ceiling which has been hand - crocheted by the artist using thread that has been coloured using dyes created from individual flowers.
The current exhibition — presented through Pace's main gallery and an adjacent space at 6 Burlington Gardens — features an
installation of seven sculptures in vivid colours, some floor - bound, others
suspended mid-air, as well as recent
works on paper.
An
installation view of the fourth - floor space includes, from left, a video by Manolis D. Lemos, Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude's large oil - on - canvas paintings, a children's swing set by Diamond Stingily, a series of Wilmer Wilson IV's staple
works, and
suspended metal sculptures by Tiril Hasselknippe.
Since 1997, the artists have presented a great number of architectural and sculptural
installations in an ongoing series of
works entitled «Powerless Structures» [6] in which they transformed the conventions of the «white cube» gallery space, creating galleries
suspended from the ceiling, sunk into the ground or turned upside down.
I experimented with different forms of hanging,
suspending work from the ceiling like stretched cowhide or
suspended from a point (this technique also allowed me to consider
installation work more effectively than I am usually able to in my studio).
Major
works on display included «The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living», in which a shark is
suspended in formaldehyde, and «In and Out of Love», a two - room
installation involving live butterflies.