"The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculpture"

"The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculpture"

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, WASHINGTON, DC

LOOKS CAN BE DECEIVING, in sculpture especially so. However expanded its field of activity has become, "sculpture" today might be seen to cohere around the dei'iousness of physical matter-its inexhaustibility, opacity, and guile. This, at least, was the common proposition of the works in the recent show "The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculpture": You will never be able to apprehend all aspects of a sculpture at once, and it will always evade availability as universal (phenomenological) or collective (ideological) experience, despite modernist hopes to …