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The Henry Moore Institute, The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 3AH,
9 Feb 2012
United Enemies
In the ‘60s and ‘70s, when structures across the western world were being dismantled, so too the notion of sculpture was being prodded, pushed, unpacked and put back together again in new and interesting ways...
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Project: United Enemies
Location: The Henry Moore Institute, The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 3AH
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MUMOK, MuseumsQuartier Museumsplatz 1, A-1070 Wien,
7 Feb 2012
Claes Oldenburg: The Sixties
Claes Oldenburg (* 1929, Stockholm, Sweden) has not only been a major artist in Pop Art, Performance Art and Installation Art but, in partnership with Coosje van Bruggen, also a strong influence on art in public spaces with his monumental Large Scale Projects in numerous major cities worldwide.
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Project: Claes Oldenburg: The Sixties
Location: MUMOK, MuseumsQuartier Museumsplatz 1, A-1070 Wien
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High Alps of Vorarlberg, Austria,
1 Feb 2012
Antony Gormley: Horizon Field
The Kunsthaus Bregenz and the British artist Antony Gormley (born in 1950) have realised a unique project in the mountains of Vorarlberg. Horizon Field is the first art project of its kind erected in the mountains and the largest landscape intervention in Austria to date. Horizon Field consists of 100 life-size, solid cast iron figures of the human body spread over an area of 150 square kilometers in the communities of Mellau, Schoppernau, Schröcken, Warth, Mittelberg, Lech, Klösterle, and Dalaas.
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Project: Antony Gormley: Horizon Field
Location: High Alps of Vorarlberg, Austria
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works/projects, Sydney Row, Bristol, BS1 6UU,
27 Jan 2012
Andy Holden: The Cookham Erratics
Andy Holden’s work incorporates monumental outdoor structures, plaster, bronze and ceramic sculpture, film, painting, collaborative lectures, recorded music and musical performances. Often showing these diverse media together, his work builds a fragmented yet richly textured collision of ideas, references and forms. Until 10th March
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Project: Andy Holden: The Cookham Erratics
Location: works/projects, Sydney Row, Bristol, BS1 6UU
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Pilar Corrias, 54 Eastcastle Street, London W1W 8EF,
24 Jan 2012
Tobias Rehberger: Sex and Friends
Tobias Rehberger creates sculptures, environments and installations principally revolving around the concept of transformation. Working with industrial processes and technological innovations, Rehberger transforms ordinary situations and objects with which we are familiar exploring the boundaries between functionality and the aesthetic.
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Project: Tobias Rehberger: Sex and Friends
Location: Pilar Corrias, 54 Eastcastle Street, London W1W 8EF
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Kunstverein Hannover, sophienstraße 2, 30159, Hannover, Germany,
5 Jan 2012
Eva Rothschild: Hot Touch
The Irish artist Eva Rothschild (born 1972, lives and works in London) is one of the most important protagonists of a generation of young artists dealing with the formal aspects of sculpture. Influenced by minimalism of the nineteen sixties and seventies, Eva Rothschild’s works convince through their tension-filled combinations of such diverse materials as leather, paper, Plexiglas, wood and metal.
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Project: Eva Rothschild: Hot Touch
Location: Kunstverein Hannover, sophienstraße 2, 30159, Hannover, Germany
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SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT, Römerberg, D-60311 Frankfurt,
20 Nov 2011
Kienholz: The Signs of the Times
Rebellious, provocative, and polarizing, the oeuvre associated with the name Kienholz has always caused quite a stir since its beginnings in the mid-1950s, first the works by Edward Kienholz (1927–1994) alone, then later, from 1972 on, the collaborative projects with his wife, Nancy Reddin Kienholz.
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Project: Kienholz: The Signs of the Times
Location: SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT, Römerberg, D-60311 Frankfurt
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Turner prize 2011 nominees: Karla Black
Karla Black's unorthodox and innovative approach to sculpture has led to a nomination for this year's Turner prize. In this interview she explains how 'art is a boxed off space where we are free to behave like the animals we are. Courtesy guardian.co.uk / produced and directed by Jared schiller.
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Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, Bankside, London, SE1 0LN,
14 Nov 2011
Terra
Curated by Hayley Skipper and Antony Mottershead of the Forestry Commission, England, based at Grizedale Forestexhibition, TERRA explores the relationship contemporary sculpture practice shares with the environment and landscape beyond the gallery itself. Review by Max Liu
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Project: Terra
Location: Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, Bankside, London, SE1 0LN
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City Hall Park, New York City,
9 Nov 2011
Sol LeWitt: Structures, 1965-2006
Sol LeWitt (1928 - 2007) was one of America’s most inventive, prolific, and influential artists. He created significant bodies of work in two and three dimensions, including drawings, photographs, prints, and sculptures (known as “structures”). An originator of minimal and conceptual art in the 1960s, LeWitt helped to transform the artistic thinking of both his contemporaries and subsequent generations of artists.
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Project: Sol LeWitt: Structures, 1965-2006
Location: City Hall Park, New York City
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MOCA GRAND AVENUE, 250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012,
6 Nov 2011
Lynda Benglis
This travelling exhibition spans the range of Lynda Benglis's career, including her early wax paintings, her brightly colored poured latex works, the Torsos and Knots series from the 1970s, and her recent experiments with plastics, cast glass, paper, and gold leaf. Lynda Benglis. Review by Siofra McSherry
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Artist: Advert
Project: Lynda Benglis
Location: MOCA GRAND AVENUE, 250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012
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Henry Moore Institute, 74 The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 3AH,
26 Sep 2011
Mario Merz: What Is to Be Done?
Mario Merz (1925 - 2003) was a leading figure of Arte Povera, a term referring to a loose grouping of Italian artists who turned their attention to their surrounding environment in the immediate post-war period. Merz rethought the possibilities of sculpture by observing the world around him. 28th July 2011 - 30th October 2011
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Project: Mario Merz: What Is to Be Done?
Location: Henry Moore Institute, 74 The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 3AH
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Galerie Barbara Wien / Wilma Lukatsch, Wien Lukatsch Galerie und Buchhandlung für Kunstbücher Schöneberger Ufer 65, 3. OG D - 10785 Berlin ,
1 Sep 2011
Nina Canell: Heart of the Matter
Galerie Barbara Wien Wilma Lukatsch presents the second solo exhibition of sculptures by Nina Canell (*1979). Flour, gravel and water comprise the majority of the work, which began at a construction site in Istanbul. 29. April 2011 - 8. Juli 2011, review by Jenny Nachtigall
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Project: Nina Canell: Heart of the Matter
Location: Galerie Barbara Wien / Wilma Lukatsch, Wien Lukatsch Galerie und Buchhandlung für Kunstbücher Schöneberger Ufer 65, 3. OG D - 10785 Berlin
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Hauser & Wirth London, Savile Row, 23 Savile Row, London W1S 2ET ,
12 Jul 2011
Matthew Day Jackson: Everything Leads to Another
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‘Everything Leads to Another’ marks Matthew Day Jackson’s first exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, presenting a major body of new works by the American artist across both gallery spaces. Regarded as one of the most engaging and inventive artists of his generation, Jackson’s work is all-encompassing, seeking connections that exist between seemingly disparate themes. Review by Jessica Furseth
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Project: Matthew Day Jackson: Everything Leads to Another
Location: Hauser & Wirth London, Savile Row, 23 Savile Row, London W1S 2ET
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Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford OX1 1BP,
7 Jul 2011
Haegue Yang
Modern Art Oxford presents Teacher of Dance, the first major UK exhibition of the Seoul- and Berlin-based artist Haegue Yang. Yang has developed a distinctive practice of colourful and sensorial installations and sculptures that occupy the spaces where public and private meet.
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Project: Haegue Yang
Location: Modern Art Oxford, 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford OX1 1BP
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