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. Craft and curator and writer Lisa Le Feuvre, the Executive Director of the Holt/Smithson Foundation and former Head of Sculpture Studies at the Henry Moore Institute.Ĭarol Bove has created four sculptures for The Met Fifth Avenue’s facade niches. In addition to documenting the exhibition, the book will include a broader consideration of Bove’s collage sculptures, with essays by Dr. Craft, Bove has selected a group of small works from the Nasher’s permanent collection-miniatures, maquettes, models, and experiments-by artists ranging from Alberto Giacometti and Pablo Picasso to Henry Moore and Tony Smith, that will delve into the mystery of scale: how large, or small, an object feels, relative to its actual size.Ĭarol Bove: Collage Sculptures will be accompanied by a richly illustrated, scholarly catalogue to be published in December 2021. Welding and bolting together different forms of steel, from found scrap metal to tubes coated in rich, matte layers of color, the sculptures highlight Bove’s investigations of spontaneity and discontinuity in relation to her materials and the ways these sculptures present, in her words, “a story of movement and pressure, force and softness.”Ĭarol Bove: Collage Sculptures also explores Bove’s work in relation to traditions of twentieth-century sculpture: Working with Dr. Catherine Craft, Carol Bove: Collage Sculptures will provide an in-depth consideration of one of the most consequential artists working today. In the first major museum presentation focused solely on Bove's formidable steel sculptures, Carol Bove: Collage Sculptures will bring together nine sculptures from the last five years, two of which have been made especially for the Nasher’s exhibition. The fabric-covered walls of the installation emphasize the paradoxical fabric-like appearance of the sculptures’ surfaces, while calling attention to the spatial context in which they are presented. The colorful, matte finishes of these sculptures moreover render the steel effortlessly malleable, and the folds and turns of these works likewise operate in tension with their perceived lightness, confounding perception. The works appear to alternately vibrate or recede in front of the surrounding walls. Within the booth, two works will be presented on Ettore Sottsass–designed tables, repurposed by Bove as pedestals, while others are mounted on display walls covered in a synthetic, orange-coral fabric that mimics the color of the sculptures’ surfaces. Made by deftly manipulating and crushing steel tubing, painted in vibrant color, Bove’s new sculptures convey an apparent lightness that belies their materiality. The presentation at Frieze, designed by the artist as a considered installation, furthers Bove’s long-standing engagement with different registers of display and the limits of physicality and perception.

David Zwirner is pleased to exhibit a focused solo presentation of new sculptures by Carol Bove at this year’s edition of Frieze New York.

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