![]() I see how you grow and compartmentalize and stratify. At the time, he wrote: “I see you New York. In 2016, the artist’s 40-foot-tall, Big Bling, commissioned for Manhattan’s Madison Square Park, harkened a giant elephant, with a gold-leaf shackle at the top. The work captures the poetic eloquence of Puryear’s practice. His abstract, semi-anthropomorphic sculpture, A Column For Sally Hemings, referenced Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved mistress, and was placed within the Jeffersonian pavilion inspired by the American president’s Monticello plantation. Martin Puryear represented the United States at the 58th Venice Biennale to vast critical acclaim. Image courtesy of the artist and Matthew Marks. ![]() Martin Puryear, A Column for Sally Hemings, 2021. “ Writing Skiapod” is on view through Apat Tanya Bonakdar. ![]() On view through April, Tanya Bonakdar’s latest exhibition, “Writing Skiapod” showcases the artist’s preoccupation with language: newspaper becomes the canvas for painting sculpture, the visual manifestation of all 170,000 words in the English vocabulary and a surreal, mythical installation, the means of blurring fictive reality. But there’s much more to Manders’s practice than the spellbinding, tromp l'oeil statues for which he’s famous. With its eyes closed, the subject’s face and cranium were cleaved in half. In 2019, the Dutch artist’s brilliant public art intervention, a colossal, decaying work entitled Tilted Head fascinated New Yorkers entering Central Park. They simultaneously look like they've been dug up after hundreds of years, and as though they’re still soft, unfired clay (in fact, they’re usually made of epoxy or cast bronze). Image courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery.įull disclosure, I’ve been obsessed with Mark Manders’s faux ancient ruin-esque sculptures for as long as I can remember. Mark Manders, Composition with Two Painted Heads, 2022.
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