The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent SculptureThis thematic selection of recent work from nine established and emerging international sculptors--the eldest born in 1947 and the youngest in 1974--collects the ways they are giving shape to the fleeting, ephemeral, theoretical and difficult-to-explain. From Charles Long's delicate, poetic and personal debris assemblages to Björn Dahlem's quirky, elegant models of black holes and Andrea Cohen's styrofoam and packing-peanut networks, their works are inspired by and address the history of their medium, as they explore how it can continue to challenge and expand our ways of seeing. The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas is not only a look at current trends, but a tool in placing this new work within the history of Modern sculpture. It notes responses to the formal and material concerns of groundbreaking twentieth-century experiments such as Cubist collage, Dada and Fluxus, from 1960s California's "junk" sculptures to Robert Rauschenberg's postmodern Combines. Includes work from Isa Genzken, Mark Handforth, Rachel Harrison, Evan Holloway, Mindy Shapero, Franz West, as well as Cohen, Dahlem and Long. |
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FOREWORD | 6 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 8 |
NOTNOTNOT OR PRETTY AIR JOHANNA BURTON | 10 |
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2006 Artists Rights abstraction Agnes Martin Andrea Cohen Angeles artist and Greene artist and Walter assemblage Berlin Björn Dahlem Bruce Conner Calvin Klein Charles Long Clement Greenberg Cologne color Contemporary Art Courtesy of neugerriemschneider courtesy the artist create cultural Dada Dahlem David Zwirner David Zwirner Gallery Dimensions variable ELLEGOOD Eva Hesse Evan Holloway expanded field Fluxus foam formal forms Franz West Gagosian Gallery Galerie Daniel Buchholz Gavin Brown's Enterprise Greene Naftali Gallery Handforth Hirshhorn Museum Holloway's inches Courtesy Isa Genzken Krauss lacquer Marc Foxx Mark Handforth Martin Kippenberger materials medium Mindy Shapero Mixed media Modern Art Museum and Sculpture Museum of Contemporary Museum of Modern Objects and Ideas origami paper painted Papier-mâché Photo pieces plaster plastic string polystyrene Rachel Harrison Rebecca Eisenberg Robert sculp sculpture Sculpture Garden Sisyphos solo exhibitions space steel Styrofoam Tanya Bonakdar Gallery tion Uncertainty of Objects Untitled viewers visual Walter Maciel Gallery West's wood York