Javier Tellez, Socle du Monde (Base of the World), 2005.
Javier Tellez, Socle du Monde (Base of the World), 2005.
Sanford Biggers, Both/And Not Either/Or, Installation View, 2004.
Javier Tellez, Socle du Monde (Base of the World), 2005.
Katrin Sigurdardottir, High Plane 3, 2005.
The Here and Now, Installation View, 2005.
Sanford Biggers, Both/And Not Either/Or, Installation View, 2004.
The Here and Now, Installation View, 2005.
Katrin Sigurdardottir, High Plane 3, 2005.
Sanford Biggers, Both/And Not Either/Or, 2004.
Sanford Biggers, Both/And Not Either/Or, 2004.
Sanford Biggers, Both/And Not Either/Or, 2004.
Katrin Sigurdardottir, High Plane 3, 2005.
Katrin Sigurdardottir, High Plane 3, 2005.
Katrin Sigurdardottir, High Plane 3, 2005.
The Here and Now, Installation View, 2005.
The Here and Now, Installation View, 2005.
The Here and Now, Installation View, 2005.
Katrin Sigurdardottir, High Plane 3, 2005.
Katrin Sigurdardottir, High Plane 3, 2005.
The formal influence of Minimalism and Performance Art on contemporary sculptural practice allows the possibility of discarding the figure in favor of creating gestures that instead include the body of the viewer. From a floating base for the world (Javier Tellez), to street-legal Buddhist bowls (Sanford Biggers), and an expansive high-plain mountain landscape (Katrin Sigurdardottir), The Here and Now presents three objects that give physical presence metaphoric transcendence. The active figurative space offered by these sculptures grounds their transcendence in a concrete materialism that proves no man is an island, even if his head is in the clouds.
