Colossal new works by Carol Bove now on view on The Met facade
Installation view of The séances arent helping I, II, III, IV, 2021 for The Facade Commission: Carol Bove, The séances arent helping. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner. Image The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo: Bruce Schwarz.
NEW YORK, NY
.- American artist Carol Bove (born 1971) has created four sculptures for The Met Fifth Avenue s facade niches. The Facade Commission: Carol Bove, The séances aren t helping is the second commission to be featured on the Museum s facade and will be on view through fall 2021. Made of sandblasted, contorted stainless-steel tubes and five-foot-wide reflective aluminum disks, the sculptures appear astoundingly lithe and supple, almost mercurial, despite their weight and heft-an effect Bove achieves by pushing her materials to their physical limits using incredible force. Projecting outward from the niches, the works confound perception.
With vaccination programmes underway and cases falling throughout Europe, many are cautiously hoping that some end to the pandemic is in sight. For museums, optimism may be tempered by memories of last summer’s short-lived freedoms, before the second wave forced them to shutter again. After the first lockdown, Swiss museums started reopening in May, and were among the first in Europe to do so. On 27 January, they appealed to have the same chance again, in an open letter to the Federal Council. Issued by a number of Basel museums and several Swiss museum associations, it argues for the democratic importance of museums and may have inspired a similar petition, published the following week, addressing France’s minister of culture Roselyne Bachelot. Nearly 10,000 people have signed, including some 100 museum professionals from institutions across the country. The letter pleads ‘for an hour, for a day, for a week or for a month, let us partially open our doors’.
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It s no longer in doubt: Bianca Saunders has a vision. Despite a fairly recent debut in the June of 2018, the 29-year-old designer has quickly become something of a promised child during the London leg of show season. You ll see something exciting, and you ll see actual promise, as did Gucci s creative director Alessandro Michele who selected Saunders to participate in Guccifest: a cinematic showcase of next gen talent that coincided with the brand s most recent collection (an arthouse series directed by Gus Van Sant with the very Gus Van Sant title of
Ouverture of Something that Never Ended). It s a solid rise for the designer, and one that reached new heights during another digitised fashion week as Saunders used the creative (and social) distance to impressive effect.
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