The Human Factor: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture, Hayward Gallery, London
The body – most visited subject in sculptural history – as interpreted by the least traditional of today’s sculptors
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The body, most visited subject in sculptural history, as interpreted by the least traditional of today’s sculptors. Paul McCarthy’s triple hyperreal casts of actress Elyse Poppers with legs spread; Pierre Huyghe’s reclining nude with head replaced by a living beehive; Cady Noland’s “Bluewald”, a photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald, just shot, silk-screened on aluminium and propped up like a target.
Other artists include Jeff Koons, Maurizio Cattelan, Isa Genzken, Thomas Schütte, Ugo Rondinone, Cathy Wilkes.
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