Frankfurt am Main
Portikus
28/11/09 - 17/01/10
Rachel Harrison is one of today’s most important sculptors. With a characteristic mixture of pop art and minimalism, she has brought sculpture back to the object, from which the art discourse and the popularity of installations had made it farther and farther removed. It is not that Harrison’s art is simple to define or its concept clear, but it is unmistakably ‘things’.
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Sculpture Park Rules
04/10/08 Domeniek Ruyters
A large number of artists in the Netherlands and elsewhere are intensely occupied with the history of the monument. From whence comes this interest in what had until recently seemed a genre relegated to the inactive list?
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01/12/07 Trevor Smith
She is one of the most well-known Indian artists at the moment, having shown her work in all the major cities – most recently in Horn Please in Bern and at the Lyon Biennial. Sheela Gowda (1957), who lives in Bangalore, makes drawings, sculptures and installations which despite their unmistakable tenor of social criticism are executed with great care and formal subtlety.
01/12/07 Ingrid Commandeur
Since being accepted at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, the Armenian-born artist, Karen Sargsyan, has had a whirlwind career. His baroque, fragile, yet technically highly refined paper sculpture groups appeal to the imagination. They are tableaux vivants in which viewers discover the theatres of comedy and tragedy, as well as countless hidden histories.
