Tag: sculpture
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When perception gives way to sacrifice
Anish Kapoor returns to the Hayward Gallery with an exhibition that is both visually spectacular and emotionally unsettling. While his monumental voids and Vantablack sculptures continue to challenge our perception of space, his recent corporeal works confront visitors with flesh, blood, and sacrificial ritual. This review examines how the retrospective navigates the friction between quiet…
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When mental states find material expression
Veronica Ryan: Multiple Conversations at Whitechapel Gallery surveys four decades of work through sculpture, collage and drawing. Moving beyond themes of migration and memory, the exhibition reveals Ryan’s exceptional ability to give physical form to psychological experience.
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The art of falling apart
Entering Tracey Emin’s exhibition feels less like stepping into a retrospective than into an exposed psychological landscape. Raw, intimate and emotionally charged, A Second Life is the most significant show of her career, and the most emotionally raw proposition on display right now.
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Challenging South African local histories
Explore Kemang Wa Lehulere’s thought-provoking installations, where material experimentation and political history merge into a compelling artistic language.
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Making air solid
Rachel Whiteread’s Tate Britain retrospective highlights her pioneering cast sculptures of ‘negative spaces,’ tracing the evolution of her Turner Prize–winning practice from intimate domestic forms to monumental architectural works.
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The plasticity of a surreal dream
Karla Black’s latest exhibition showcases her fragile, non-representational sculptures made from ephemeral materials—from Vaseline and paint to clay, wool and baby oil bottles—highlighting the artist’s distinctive fusion of colour, light and mark-making.
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The poetry in traditional crafts
Martin Puryear’s Parasol Unit retrospective presents over forty years of his handcrafted wooden and bronze sculptures, highlighting his fusion of traditional craftsmanship, abstraction and subtle social commentary in his first major solo show in London.