Giuseppe’s Penone’s moving sculpture in an empty square in Rome during lockdown brought to mind Hermann Hesse’s remarkable prose poem…
Read MoreEnrique Oliviera’s Astonishing ‘Devir’
We were blown away by Enrique Oliveira’s massive tree sculpture that seems to grow in all directions out of and through the walls, floor and ceiling of the gallery: ordinary materials turned into something palpably alive.
Read MoreCharles Ray: “The Difference Between Making and Discovering”
We were stunned by a number of passages in “Meaning Machines“, the New Yorker’s recent profile of sculptor Charles Ray. The first has to do with “making”, something we do a lot of, but we’d never thought about it quite this way. Like Ray, we are haunted by it:
Read Moretree sculpture by enrique oliveira (what plywood can be)
Henrique Oliveira uses old plywood, fencing recycled from dumpsters and landfills from his home city, São Paulo, shaped around PVC forms. Henrique’s breakthrough occurred when he was a student at the University of São Paulo, where for two years the view from his studio window was a wooden construction fence. Over time Oliveira began to see…
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