{"id":5715,"date":"2018-05-02T16:32:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T15:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/?p=5715"},"modified":"2018-05-21T16:37:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T15:37:33","slug":"cultural-events-outings-may2018-sculpture-nature-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sculpture-nature_local.test\/en\/cultural-events-outings-may2018-sculpture-nature-art\/","title":{"rendered":"May’s Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"
SUMMER I Eva Jospin prop Built
\n<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span>Chiharu Shiota, Katarina L\u00f6fstr\u00f6m & Poul Gernes
\nWan\u00e5s Konst, Knislinge (Sweden)
\nMay 6<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span> to November 4<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span>, 2018
\n<\/span>Curators: Elisabeth Millqvist & Mattias Givell
\nFor the first part of its summer program 2018, Wan\u00e5s Konst Sculpture Park (Sweden) commissioned site-specific works by two women artists: Chiharu Shiota from Japan and Katarina L\u00f6fstr\u00f6m from Sweden. It is also presenting Pyramide<\/i>, a monumental sculpture by Poul Gernes (1925-1996).
\nFor this new commission, Chiharu Shiota explores the notion of \u201chouse\u201d and develops the visual narration through the use of thread \u2013 wool or metal \u2013 to talk about human relationships as well as notions of temporality, movement and memory. While she uses red wool for Everywhere<\/i> (2018), located outside the hayloft, she exclusively uses metal thread for the first time with Relationality<\/i> (2018), located in the sculpture park.
\nKatarina L\u00f6fstr\u00f6m\u2019s kinetic work is also installed in the sculpture park. Open Source (Cinemascope)<\/i> (2018) is a giant screen (three and half meters high by nine meters long) made of plastic sequins forming luminous waves under the action of the wind and light.
\nVisitors will also be able to climb Poul Gernes\u2019 20-foot high Pyramid<\/i> and enjoy the view. This work was first installed at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark) but was originally conceived for the Israel Square in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n
\n<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a>Domaine de Tr\u00e9varez (France)
\nMay 12<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span> to October 14<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span>, 2018
\n<\/span>For the past few years, the Domaine de Tr\u00e9varez (Centre-Finist\u00e8re, France) has been organizing contemporary exhibitions and festivals. This season, Eva Jospin has been invited to occupy the \u201cch\u00e2teau rose\u201d and its park.
\nPanorama<\/i>, a work initially created for the Cour Carr\u00e9e of the Louvre, was installed under the greenhouse of the stables: it consists in an octagonal pavilion made of mirror-polished steel panels that reflect the surrounding light and architecture. In contrast, the interior of the structure feels like a dark cave and the visitor discovers a mysterious and delicate forest meticulously sculpted into cardboard.\u00a0Two new works have been installed in the park: by the western tower of the castle, an installation composed of fake vegetation, and by the great waterfall, a work entitled Nymph\u00e9e<\/i> that references the decorative constructions of Renaissance gardens and that will be on view starting at the end of May.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span>Phyllida Barlow
\nThe High Line, New York (United States)
\nUntil March 2019
\nIn May, the High Line (New York) unveils prop<\/i>, a monumental sculpture by British artist Phyllida Barlow. This is her first public art commission in the United States.
\nLocated at the level of 16th Street at a former railway spur \u2013 remnant of the neighborhood\u2019s industrial past \u2013 prop<\/i> (2017) is a 30-feet high sculpture made of construction wood, plaster, expanded Styrofoam, fabric and other recycled materials. As it is often the case in the artist\u2019s practice, this work is a reconfiguration of a former piece. Here, prop<\/i> was part of holedhoarding, <\/i>an ensemble of sculptures presented in 2017 in the British Pavilion of the 57th Venice Biennale.<\/p>\n
\n<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a>Virginia Overton
\nSocrates Sculpture Park, New York (United States)
\nMay 6<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span> to September 3<\/span>rd<\/sup><\/span>, 2018
\n<\/span>Virginia Overton is occupying the Socrates Sculpture Park with new works that were specifically designed for the Built<\/i> exhibition. The artist transforms common industrial materials such as wood beams, sinks or pickup trucks in an ensemble of ten monumental sculptures displayed throughout the park. As Socrates executive director John Hatfield explains, \u201cVirginia Overton\u2019s newly commissioned artworks for Socrates Sculpture Park echo our thirty-year history of transformation, reclamation and labor that continues to be an ongoing effort here in the Park.\u201d<\/p>\n