Sculpture, changed - Some notes
What I'm circling around right now ... is the idea of soft sculpture. I saw the Bourgeois, Hesse and Adams exhibition at the Courtauld on Friday. It's a recasting of the 1966 exhibition curated by Lucy Lippard, focusing on the three women artists in that original show. The Courtauld's is Abstract Erotic , based on a phrase coined by Lippard; her show was called Eccentric Abstractions . I find soft sculpture exciting because it's subversive but I admit to being lost in the exhibition. I spent good time in there, revisiting the two beautifully appointed and well curated rooms several times and working through my anxiety to absorb the messages conveyed by captions and hanging in the air as the pieces dialogued. The feeling of finding some pieces a waste of time bothered me. I was delighted to see Fée Couturière and Le Regard . As I contemplated Fée Couturière , which I only recalled having seen numerous times in books, I was taken by its suspended state, its being cast...