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| May
2004 |
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Vol.23
No.4 |
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publication of the International Sculpture Center |
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From
the Editor
Two themes run through
this issue of Sculpture. One is a topic we have promised to revisit: contemporary
translations between the two “languages of space,” architecture
and sculpture. Simparch and Alfredo Jaar show in very different ways some
of the most interesting possibilities for the overlapping interests of
these two fields. Another persistent theme this month: Bernar Venet, Tony
Cragg, and Alfredo Jaar all speak of the conceptual process as a series
of more or less distinct beginnings and endings, taking a body of work
as far as it will go and then simply stepping away from it. A related
idea is the responsibility that comes with the artist’s privilege:
freedom to create—to begin work on something completely new. The
artists already mentioned speak profoundly of responsibility to art and
to the social body. Alan Sonfist’s work insists on the vulnerable
cohabitation of natural and cultural environments; and Harry Hauck’s
work comments on the very nature of vulnerability, in sculptures given
life and form by the most basic human action: breath.
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Glenn Harper
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