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On Thursday night March 16, 2011 I went to a town called Sant Cugat situated on the other side of the hills behind Barcelona, one can be there in 5 minutes as there is a tunnel, to see a show called "Processos Ocultos" in the...
New member: the sculpture park Sausmarez Manor in Gernsey (UK)
The sculpture park on the Channel Island of Gernsey was founded in 1998 with the help of John Mills, president of the Royal Society of British Sculpture. Almost immediately after opening, works were procured by collectors in America, New Zealand,...
New member: Günter Weinreuter GmbH Plaster Moulding (DE)
restoration - moulding - casting - constructionAlthough the term ‘plaster moulding’ no longer is very common, Günter Weinreuter GmbH Plaster Moulding offers the sculptor all the services of a modern art foundry. It was founded in 1965 as a...
Pangolin London: women who sculpt (UK)
Why are women still marginalized in the world of art? Does gender have an effect on their work, or is it all just politics? These are some of the key issues of the exhibition at the Pangolin London.Despite the great success of a handful of sculptors...
Eva Löfdahl at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm (SE)
Eva Löfdahl (b 1953) is one of Sweden’s most important contemporary artists. Since her debut, more than three decades ago, she has created varieties of paradoxical metaphors, challenging our habitual way of seeing things, in the form of sculptures,...
Tony Cragg in the Louvre: Figure out / Figure in (FR)
As a counterpoint to the presentation of the retrospective of the Bavarian-Austrian sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-1783), the museum displays a group of sculptures by British artist Tony Cragg, exhibited in the Cour Marly and Cour Puget...
Markus Lüpertz: Herculese – Bozzetti for a monument in the Ruhr area (DE)
Under the title "Bozzetti for a monument in the Ruhr area", 43 color-painted bronze bozzetti (sculptural sketches) by the artist Mark Lüpertz are exhibited. On the one hand, these were created as sketches and preparatory studies for his...
MADRID ART WEEK
From 16 to 20 February, Madrid becomes Europe’s art capital. Five art fairs and around 150 art exhibitions in museums, foundations, art centres etc. Absolutely Impossible to see it all, but we try hard. Here is a brief report on sculpture...
Anti / Form - Sculptures from the MUMOK collection (AT)
In the late 1960s, the term "anti-form" meant the disentigration of the traditional sculpture and art concepts, which opened new doors for aesthetic practices. This thorough scrutiny was followed by another wave of new sculptures in the...
The Official Copy: The photography of sculpture, 1839 to today (CH)
More than 300 photographs from the early days of photography to the present are collected. The works come from over 100 renowned photographers and style-defining plastic artists. They show how photography influenced the concept of sculpture and...