{"id":490,"date":"2010-04-12T07:44:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T07:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15bytes12\/2010\/04\/12\/sculpture-today\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T19:50:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:50:26","slug":"sculpture-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/sculpture-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Sculpture Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Although sculpture remains difficult to show, difficult to sell and difficult to own (perhaps the exact reasons why it flourishes so well in the public domain), it seems to me that there is a subtle but growing interest in sculpture and what is sculpture,” says Josh Kanter, a local collector and the subject of an upcoming article in 15 Bytes. This growing interest was evidenced, he says, in the attendance at the International Sculpture Center’s recent London conference – What is Sculpture in the 21st Century?<\/p>\n

Kanter, along with fellow Salt Lake Art Center directors Erik Christiansen and James
\nRoberts, went to London for the conference, April 7 – 9, and for the
\npresentation of the ISC’s Lifetime Achievement Award to British artists
\nPhillip King and William Tucker.<\/p>\n


\nKanter is the current Chairman of the ISC’s board of directors and Christiansen is
\na former ISC director. The ISC is the publisher of Sculpture magazine, a
\nseries of books about contemporary sculpture, and its website,
\nwww.sculpture.org. An organization with over 8,000 members, the ISC is
\nthe leading voice for and about contemporary sculpture around the world.
\nThe ISC hosts annual conference programs, organizes a worldwide
\ncompetition for students working in the field of contemporary sculpture, and presents its annual Lifetime Achievement
\nAward to living sculptors who have made a vital contribution to the
\nworld of sculpture. The ISC’s Lifetime Achievement Award is widely
\nconsidered the most prestigious award that a living sculptor can receive
\nwithin the field of sculpture.<\/p>\n

The Salt Lake gang was on hand to hear opening remarks by one of today’s
\nleading British sculptors, Antony Gormley, and to hear comments about
\nKing and Tucker from the dean of British contemporary sculpture, and
\nformer Lifetime Achievement Award recipient himself – Sir Anthony Caro.<\/p>\n

People traveled from around the world to join the ISC for this
\nInternational conference and award presentation and our Salt Lake
\ncontingent was excited to hob knob with some of the greatest sculptors
\nof our time in between visits to the local pubs and museums.<\/p>\n

Attendees at the conference included art patrons, arts administrators
\nand, in addition to Gormley, King, Tucker and Caro, such notable U.S.
\nsculptors as Jun Kaneko (Omaha), Bill Fitzgibbons (San Antonio), John
\nHenry (Chattanooga), Richard Hunt (Chicago and 2009 recipient of the
\nISC’s Lifetime Achievement Award), Tom Skarff (Chicago) and Carol Feuerman
\n(New York).<\/p>\n

In addition to the conference, Kanter says the growing interest in sculpture can be seen in the number of
\nparticipating schools and students, and excitement about, the ISC’s
\nstudent award program and exhibition (works from the 2009 Student Award winners can currently be seen in Launch-11, at the
\nSalt Lake Art Center).<\/p>\n

” And completely coincidentally, while in London I was able
\nto see an exhibition, Decode, at the Victoria & Albert Museum – an
\ninstitution primarily known for classic two-dimensional works – which
\nbrought together over 30 artists (including Simon Heijdens who is
\nworking on a commission for the Utah Museum of Natural History) working
\nin various new media that, I believe, was quite sculptural.”<\/p>\n

“Where this all goes is anyone’s guess but if nothing else, it does say
\nto me that the world of sculpture is alive and well.”<\/p>\n

photo: Antony Gormley BLIND LIGHT 2007. Fluorescent light, water, ultrasonic humidifiers, toughened low iron glass, aluminium, 3200 x 9785 x 8565 mm, Commissioned by the Hayward Gallery, London, Installation view, Hayward Gallery, London Photograph by Stephen White, London<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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