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Yorkshire Sculpture International

Carey-Kent, Paul

Art Monthly, 2019-09 (429), p.39-40

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Yorkshire Sculpture International
Author: Carey-Kent, Paul
Subjects: Art exhibits ; Conceptual art ; Contemporary art ; Criticism and interpretation ; Exhibitions ; Factories ; Installation art ; Modern sculpture ; Photography ; Sculpture ; Sculpture, Modern ; Visual artists
Is Part Of: Art Monthly, 2019-09 (429), p.39-40
Description: The curators asked Phyllida Barlow (Interview AM335) - who herself has a room in the Leeds City Art Gallery which strikes a good balance between older work and recent acquisitions - to provoke them with statements about what sculpture might be, and fixed as a guiding principle on her suggestion that it is 'the most anthropological of the art forms'. Presenting these 'Portraits (The Conceptual-Artist Smoking Head, Stand-In)', 2016, allows the Berlin-based Iranian artist to reference local industrial history as well as a delightful conceit of Marcel Broodthaers: that the function of factories is to mould smoke. [...]Cauleen Smith's 22-minute film Sojouner uses two sculptural residues of LA's 1965 Watts Riots as settings: the Watts Towers (which survived the riots) and Noah Purifoy Desert Art Museum (which shows works which Purifoy made from materials salvaged from post-riot detritus).
Publisher: London: Britannia Art Publications Ltd
Language: English

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