Jytte Høy - A Historical Alfabet for you
Reality’s hidden relations - What has D-Day to do with x-ray or Composition A with Y chromosome? For ARKEN’s autumn exhibition Jytte Høy has created a historical alphabet which dons a different pair of glasses, taking a playful look at reality. It all began with two words that kept echoing in the Danish artist Jytte Høy’s head: Composition A and D-Day. She had just finished reading about the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian’s abstract painting Composition A from 1920 and around the same time kept running into the word D-Day because of the sixtieth anniversary of the Allied invasion of the French coast in World War II... [ read more ] >>
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Andy Goldsworthy's Passage
Andy Goldsworthy's Passage focuses on the journeys that people, rivers, landscapes, and even stones take through space and time. A cairn made by the renowned sculptor in the Scottish village where he lives reveals the influence that his work close to home has on projects he creates elsewhere. A series involving elm trees, from glowing yellow leaves to dead branches, exemplifies his work's vigorous beauty as well as its association with death and decay. Creations on the beach and in rivers explore the passage of time, while a white chalk path investigates the passing from day into night. Passage also includes the Garden of Stones, a Holocaust memorial at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York, where the artist planted 18 oak trees through holes in hollowed-out, earth-filled boulders. Documenting these and other recent works, this beautiful book is an eloquent testament to Goldsworthy's determination to deepen his understanding of the world around him, and his relationship with it, through his art. [ read more ] >>
Andy Goldsworthy >>
Passage by : Andy Goldsworthy >>

The Contemporary Series - Sarah Sze - The Triple Point of Water
Known for her intricate site–specific installations combining natural and artificial plant life with the miscellany of everyday life, Sarah Sze creates a fantastical urban garden in the Museum’s Sculpture Court. Her whimsical arrangements, comprising thousands of objects, become imaginary miniature ecosystems that borrow from the visual vocabularies of archaeological digs, construction sites, and pastoral oases. At once architectural and organic, intimate and epic, her installation suggests complex strata of an imagined ecosystem lying just below street level, which might be revealed if the walls of the space were peeled away. [ read more ] >>
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Sarah Sze by : Jerome Sans, Jean Louis Schefer, Fondation Cartier >>