Tag: Henry Moore

• Sculpture Matters: recent encounters with figuration, clay, and maverick makers

  15 October 2013

  thinking about the sculptural

  Arturo Martini, clay, Henry Moore, Henry Moore Foundation, Lucio Fontana, Sculpture, Thomas Houseago

  Over the last few weeks I have encountered a rather odd collection of sculptural things: the postwar ceramic sculpture of Lucio Fontana and Fausto Melotti bursting with dynamically glazed and roughly handled surfaces, currently on view at the Nasher Sculpture Center; The Age of Innocence, a victorian bust in three different materials by the English sculptor Alfred…

• Empty Plinths and Changing Landscapes – Yorkshire Sculpture Park

  24 April 2013

  exhibitions, public things

  Henry Moore, Sculpture, sculpture parks, Yorkshire Sculpture Park

  The sculpture park is a particular type of place, a particular type of arts institution. A phenomena unique to the medium of sculpture, save perhaps for a select sort of architecture, the sculpture park is traditionally set within a bucolic, natural landscape or, on a smaller scale, framed as landscape, open air museum annex. It provides…