#sculpture

Beyond the Canvas

Mar 271 min read

In memory of Richard Serra (1938-2024)

"When you look at my works, you don't remember an object. There remains an experience, a passage." - Richard Serra Serra revolutionized...

Beyond the Canvas

Sep 10, 20231 min read

Ron Mueck at Fondation Cartier, Paris

“I never made life-size figures because it never seemed to be interesting. We meet life-size people every day.” - Ron Mueck Mueck's work...

Beyond the Canvas

Aug 17, 20231 min read

Thomas J Price at the V&A, London

“Mum, look - this one looks like you!" I turned around and saw an African American boy who can't have been older than 6 or 7 excitedly...

Beyond the Canvas

Nov 20, 20221 min read

Simone Leigh's Sovereignty at the U.S. Pavilion, Venice Biennale

"I like the idea of thinking of femininity as something solid and enduring rather than always something fragile and weak." - Simone Leigh...

Beyond the Canvas

Jul 16, 20221 min read

Donatello at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence

If there is an equivalent of Zoom fatigue for art shows, I 100% suffer from it. The ridiculous speed at which I move from one room to the...

Beyond the Canvas

May 15, 20221 min read

Kehinde Wiley’s Archeology of Silence, Fondazione Cini

“That is the archaeology I am unearthing: The spectre of police violence and state control over the bodies of young Black and Brown...

Beyond the Canvas

Sep 13, 20202 min read

Niccolò dell'Arca's Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c. 1463) - Santa Maria della Vita, Bologna

"This Christ will never be forgotten. Was it made from earth? Was it rotting flesh? I didn’t know what the medium was […] The three Marys...

Beyond the Canvas

Apr 25, 20202 min read

Flashback no. 7: The Giacometti Gallery at Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk (29 Jun 2016)

Even on a very dark day, there was something strangely uplifting in the light that pervaded these rooms of the Louisiana Museum of Modern...