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| November
2003 |
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Vol.22
No.9 |
| A
publication of the International Sculpture Center |
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From
the Editor
The sculptors featured
in this issue of Sculpture, in one way or another, insist on art’s
materiality—on the fact that a sculpture is embodied in three-dimensional
materials as well as in our culture. The relation of materials to meanings
is explicit in Sarah Sze’s constructions incarnating today’s throwaway
culture. Alain Kirili uses the materials of high art, on the other hand,
to create in concrete terms a dialogue with the sculpture that has gone
before him. One of the artists referenced by Kirili, David Smith, was engaged
in materializing both art and culture across a broad spectrum of approaches
and ideas. The Canadian artists surveyed by Ray Cronin, along with artists
like Paul Kittleson, Marlene Alt, and Karen Rich Beall, are part of a significant
trend in contemporary art toward the presentation in sculpture of a tangible
reality rather than an ironic or stylistic statement. Toland Grinnell offers
a similar (and similarly Pop-influenced) body of work, as well as a manifesto
for a younger generation of artists raised on a culture steeped in technology
and consumerism.
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Glenn Harper
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