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Franz West \u2013 Outdoor sculptures<\/strong><\/a>
\nMarais district, Paris (France)
\nThrough December 10th<\/sup>, 2018
\nThe fantastic retrospective on Austrian artist Franz West (who passed away in 2012), presented by the Pompidou Center in Paris since the beginning of September, is making its way out of the museum. A selection of some of his monumental outdoor works have taken over the Marais in several of the neighborhood\u2019s museums and institutions. Kugel<\/em> (2006), a spherical aluminum sculpture, is installed in the garden of the Picasso Museum, while the\u00a0Cognac-Jay Museum hosts in its courtyard Ohne Titel<\/em> (2008-2009), a late work that synthesizes Franz West\u2019s plastic research on shapes as well as on materials, surfaces and colors. As for Omega<\/em> (2008) and Meeting Point<\/em> (2010), two gigantic monochrome \u201csausages\u201d, a white one and the other green, they are displayed in the courtyard of the Historical Library of Paris in the h\u00f4tel Lamoignon. Finally, a fifth monumental sculpture by Franz West is installed in the main lobby of the Pompidou Center.<\/p>\n

Sean Scully \u2013 Inside\/Outside<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
\nYorkshire Sculpture Park,\u00a0Wakefield (United Kingdom)
\nThrough January 6th<\/sup>, 2018
\nThe Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) presents a monographic exhibition on Sean Scully: the largest exhibition of the artist\u2019s sculptures ever presented and the first one, in England, that combines his sculptures and his paintings. Sean Scully explores the notions of abstraction and landscape, whether in his aluminum paintings, his paper artworks or his\u00a0monumental sculptures, which simultaneously invert and assert their\u00a0materiality. During the past fifteen years, Sean Scully has been focusing more on sculpture, working with steel and stone. In the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, he installed several new works specifically created for the exhibition, including Wall Dale Cubed <\/em>(2018),\u00a0made of 1,000 tons of Yorkshire stone extracted from a local quarry, and Crate of Air<\/em> (2018), an angular Corten steel structure that seems to frame the landscape in\u00a0multiple ways.<\/p>\n

Tony Oursler \u2013 Tear of The Cloud<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
\nRiverside Park South\/Hudson River, New York (United States)
\nFrom October 10th<\/sup> to October 31st<\/sup>, 2018
\nIt will only be visible at night, during the last three weeks of October. American artist Tony Oursler\u2019s new\u00a0multimedia piece, Tear in the Cloud<\/em>, is projected onto the structure of the former transfer bridge of West 69th Street. The image stretches onto the surrounding landscape. A pioneer of video art in the\u00a01980\u2019s, Oursler offers here a true visual and auditory immersive experience.
\nThe iconography used in the video is linked to the past and present identity of the place: from the Hudson River School \u2013 first American artistic\u00a0movement \u2013 to the murder of Mary Rogers, whose body was found in the Hudson River, and including the utopian community of Oneida and experimental music in Lower\u00a0Manhattan and the South Bronx. Stories intermingle, overlap and respond to one another, around a spectator who evolves in the space of the projection.<\/p>\n