“Relay” is a Randian blog series from New York. Embracing art in the city and the race to keep up, “Relay” might include exhibitions, places, art works, people and history. The baton passed between them each time could relate to title, description, atmosphere, artist, origin or ethos, for example, creating a thread loosely linking one post to the next.
(As this is the first installment, there is no previous post to relay from).
#1 Minimal sculpture by Anya Gallaccio
Subtly arranged on the boards of Lehmann Maupin are stone sculptures by Anya Gallaccio. Fanning out as if processing forward, their simple lines are purposeful; hard, square-cut limbs fused together precisely into minimal structures suggest cubes, but these are nonetheless works which, both in their stature and the willfulness of their making, evoke human bodies and intentions. Their titles—if one pays attention to them as grounds for interpretation—waver between hope and despair (“Don’t look to me to say goodbye”, “Give me your tomorrow”, both 2014). In this light, the sculptures come across less as formal objects than as somehow votive figures, or steles to sentiment.
New sculptures by Anya Gallaccio, installation view at Lehmann Maupin, New York. Photo: Elisabeth Berstein.
