关于作者 凯瑟琳·克拉夫特(Catherine Craft)是达拉斯纳什雕塑中心的策展人,也是达达派、抽象表现主义和新达达派的学者。她是《艺术家的观众:达达、新达达和抽象表现主义的出现》(2012)和罗伯特·劳申伯格(2013)的作者。 Carol Bove(生于1971年)以其独特的形式、技术和概念创新性,
Exploring the recent sculptural innovations of prominent contemporary artist Carol Bove.
Carol Bove: Collage Sculptures presents an extensive look into the contemporary artist’s work over the past five years and her ongoing exploration of scale, color, material, and artistic traditions of the twentieth century.
Bove’s recent work engages the conceptual concerns of mid-century sculpture, such as spontaneity, industrial materials, and the potential of painted sculpture. However, within this space of familiar sculptural traditions, Bove has discovered new approaches that lead to places previously unknown. Bove’s “collage sculptures” are created from scrap metal and stainless steel that has been carefully worked into sinuous forms and are frequently painted. Considering the hard rigidity of the steel, the works possess an appearance of almost impossible softness, as if steel could become as pliable as clay. Such works range from small pedestal sculptures to large, imposing compositions. Bove’s interest in scale and how a viewer’s understanding of an artwork shifts depending on its context are explored through a selection of small works from the collection of the Nasher Sculpture Center.
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