A park comprising pavilions of widely differing forms, sizes, and functions is now under construction in Jinhua. The theme of each pavilion was chosen by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. The architectural concepts developed for the new city center of th
The artist Olafur Eliasson (Copenhagen, 1967) has installed five reflective spheres at the east entrance plaza of San Francisco’s Chase Center, new home of the Golden State Warriors, the city’s basketball team. Each measuring 4.8 meters in diameter,
Owner of one of the world’s largest private sculpture collections, the Texas entrepreneur Ray Nasher rejected the proposals of several institutions to exhibit his works and decided to build his own museum. Located in the center of the city of Dallas,
Dependiendo del punto de vista, la gran escultura diseñada para la Zona del Cuerpo parece una sola figura demediada o dos estrechamente abrazadas, cuyas entrañas encierran una exposición sobre genética y anatomía. Es una propuesta deliberadamente amb
The Year of Chillida
The transgressive spirit of the avant-gardes gave rise to a peculiar process of contamination: architecture began to tend to go artsy, and art to aspire to become architecture. While buildings have embraced abstraction and even become sculptures, the
At the base of the residential high-rise at 56 Leonard Street in New York, a work of Herzog & de Meuron, is this permanent sculpture of stainless steel by the artist Anish Kapoor. Seemingly squashed by a 250-meter-tall building, the 15-meter-long, 6-
he American artist Michael Heizer has never really articulated his intention for City, a monumental, sprawling complex of mounds, geoglyphs and concrete pyramids set in the brutally hot and inaccessible high desert of Nevada, about three hours north-
Throughout her career, Cristina Iglesias has sought to connect with places and sites by means of alluringly tactile, powerfully lyrical works.
For the anniversary of his death, the Patio Herreriano pays tribute to Juan Muñoz through an exhibition that delves into his boundless artistic imagination.
The bold presence of this work by OLI architecture, which at first glance looks like a warehouse in the middle of private property in New York state – clad in a charred accoya timber rainscreen meant to naturally patina over time – evokes the Serra s
The work of the world-renowned Valencian sculptor Andreu Alfaro (1929-2012) is characterized by its synthesis of all the knowledge he absorbed in the course of years. A reduction of form, an exercise in creating a single stroke in the void, showing t
The artist Christo Vladimirov Javacheff’s life ended on 31 May with an air so romantic as to seem unreal. He was born on 13 June 1935, the same day as his wife, Jeanne-Claude Denat. She was born in Casablanca, and he in Gabrovo (Bulgaria). How did th
On view through 3 November at the Botín Foundation in Santander is ‘Calder Stories.’ Eighty pieces of different origins are on display in an exhibition that is distinct for two main reasons. First, instead of centering around the American artist’s ca
The legacy of an artist frequently becomes a source of conflict. Sometimes because the wishes of the deceased do not coincide with those of the inheritors; other times because the legatees quarrel for possession of artworks or for the right to decide
Chillida Leku
Eight years after a mix of financial and management problems forced it to close down, the artistic sanctuary of Eduardo Chillida in Hernani reopens.
Outside Hernani, the museum founded by the Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida reopens to the public on 17 April, with its outdoor scuptures and the exhibition space inside the Zabalaga house.
After ten years of work, the most complex and ambitious project up to date by Damien Hirst (Bristol, 1965) will be on view, until mid-December this year, at the two Venetian venues of the Pinault Collection: Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana. Asi
Ancient beauty still shines. A series of exhibitions has refreshed the aura of classical sculpture, and their catalogs are depositories of the knowledge and emotion that made them possible. The Fondazione Prada opened its Milan center with a stimulat
La condición geométrica de buena parte de la escultura contemporánea, y sus fértiles intersecciones con la arquitectura, es el argumento de una exposición celebrada en el CaixaForum de Madrid, fruto de la fusión de las colecciones de la Fundación La
Arquitectura y escultura se funden poéticamente en la obra de Anish Kapoor, célebre por sus piezas orgánicas que trascienden la mímesis trivial y los cambios de escala que suelen definir la relación entre ambas disciplinas.
Promovido por la Fundación Mexicana para la Educación Ambiental (FUNDEA) y con la colaboración de biólogos marinos y conservacionistas de costas, se ha inaugurado, tras cuatro años de trabajo, el proyecto de fusión de arte y naturaleza ‘Estancias Sum
Desde que ganara el premio Turner en 1994, Antony Gormley (Londres, 1950) se ha convertido en uno de los principales escultores de su generación. ‘Habitat’, una de las últimas obras del artista, está situada en el centro de la ciudad más poblada del
Jorge Oteiza fue un extraordinario escultor, uno de los escasos artistas europeos que en el convulso período de las vanguardias tardías —cuando el impulso utópico de la modernidad alcanzó al fin tierra firme, replegándose en la revisión de su patrimo
La pintura contemporánea ha adquirido nueva vitalidad a través de la oposición pintura/cuadro y de la extensión de lo pictórico al ámbito espacial y a los nuevos recursos tecnológicos; la escultura comenzó mucho antes su disolución en el ‘campo expan
Nadie puede oír lo que la figura está murmurando al muro. Si te acercas se pueden ver los labios en movimiento, pero no dice nada. Esta proximidad es intimidatoria, quizás más para nosotros que para ella. Se tiene la sensación de haber invadido el es
