Antony Gormley Creates a Major New Installation at White Cube

LONDON.- White Cube Mason’s Yard presents a new exhibition by Antony Gormley. The artist has created a major new site-specific installation and a new series of cast iron block-work sculptures. Engaging our mobility, Gormley considers how time acts on objects and how objects act on us. In the lower ground-floor gallery, Gormley will exhibit a new installation of Breathing Room III the third and largest in this series of works which contain and implicate the viewer as the figure in [...]

Denver Airport’s Latest Sculpture: God of the Dead

DENVER (AP).- Sculptures outside Denver International Airport already include a 30-foot-tall, rearing blue mustang with glowing red eyes, nicknamed “Bluecifer” by snickering locals. Now the airport has another statue: a 26-foot tall replica of the Egyptian god of the dead. Workers erected the seven-ton replica of Anubis on Wednesday next to the main terminal to promote an upcoming King Tut exhibit at the Denver Art Museum. The statue has promoted the exhibit in other cities too. It’s not far from [...]

Allegra LaViola Gallery Opens Show with Sculptural Works Attached to the Wall

NEW YORK, NY.- Allegra LaViola Gallery presents Off The Wall, a group show comprised of sculptural works attached to the wall. The origin of the term “off the wall” remains unclear, but it is a relatively new phrase, used to describe something, or someone, who is zany, untraditional and unusual. Though the concept of three-dimensional works that are still on the wall is not new, the seven artists included in this exhibition are pushing the boundaries of how sculptural form [...]

Sotheby’s to Sell One of the Most Iconic Works of Art by Bharti Kher

LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced that it will offer for sale Bharti Kher’s celebrated sculpture The Skin Speaks a Language not its Own, one of the most iconic and most talked-about works of art by a contemporary Indian artist and the masterpiece of the leading female artist of her generation. Awe-inspiring in its scale, detail and beauty, this life-sized female Indian elephant, will be offered in Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Auction on Monday, June 28, 2010. The work appears at auction for [...]

Nicola Carrino at A arte Studio Invernizzi, Milan

MILAN.- On Thursday 20 May 2010 an exhibition devoted to the artist Nicola Carrino opened at A arte Studio Invernizzi. On this occasion the artist presented a work specially created for the spaces of the gallery entitled ‘Ricostruttivi Progetto Invernizzi 2009.2010′ (Reconstructives Invernizzi Project 2009.2010). Starting from the premise that ‘in order to reconstruct, it is necessary to return to basics’, as Carrino himself wrote, ‘the Ricostruttivi, like the previous ‘Costruttivi’ (Constructives) and ‘Decostruttivi’ (Deconstructives), are open sculptural systems that [...]

Joslyn Art Museum Outdoor Garden Galleries Showcases Three New Sculptures

OMAHA, NE.- Large-scale works by two major contemporary American sculptors and a figurative bronze by preeminent French sculptor Auguste Rodin were positioned in locations across the Joslyn Art Museum campus this month. Joslyn Art Museum’s One of the Burghers of Calais: Andrieu d’Andres, immortalized by Rodin (French, 1840–1917) and the generous gift of John and Carmen Gottschalk, G. Woodsen Howe, and Anda Howe (2002), moved from the Museum’s concert hall foyer to the southeast corner of the Peter Kiewit Foundation [...]

Hammer Museum Present New Sculptural Work by Architect Greg Lynn

LOS ANGELES, CA.- This summer, the Hammer Museum will present a new sculptural work by Los Angeles-based architect Greg Lynn. A fantastical attraction for visitors of all ages, Fountain will be located in the museum’s outdoor courtyard. The work is a functioning fountain made entirely out of found large plastic children’s toys that have been cut and reassembled in multiple layers, with water spouting from its top and pooling at its base. Constructed from more than seventy-five prefabricated plastic whale [...]

IVAM Offers Bernar Venet His First Show in a Spanish Museum

VALENCIA.- The first exhibition in a Spanish museum dedicated to Bernar Venet gathers 53 works and a representative selection of the conceptual work developed by Bernar Venet during different phases of his artistic career. Part of his work was characterized by the use of poor materials, new media such as the video, the sound recording and the photography in order to document performances and actions and the advent of unpredictable situations. Works such as Performance dans les détritus (Performance within [...]

Monumental Sculptures by Manolo Valdés can be Seen on Broadway

NEW YORK, NY.- The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, The Broadway Mall Association, Marlborough Gallery, and the New York City Department of Transportation are pleased to announce a public exhibition of monumental sculptures by Spanish artist Manolo Valdés from May 20, 2010 through January 23, 2011. The exhibition will include sixteen bronze sculptures along Broadway from Columbus Circle to 166th Street. Each sculpture will include signage that displays mobile phone access numbers for an English and Spanish [...]

Iceberg with Dutch Artist Ap Verheggen Artworks Breaks Loose

THE HAGUE.- The big moment for the sculptures of Dutch artist Ap Verheggen has come. The iceberg in Greenland on which he placed his artwork “Dog Sled Riders” back in March has broken loose. The uncertain journey can be followed on the website www.coolemotion.org, via GPS, photos, and video. Satellite images show that the iceberg on which Verheggen placed his sculptures in March have started to move. It drifts away from the island of Uummannaq with an unknown destination. In [...]