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JILL SILVERMAN VAN COENEGRACHTS, FOUNDER JSVCprojects
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UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ,
KING & KING
A new sculpture
Installed in the United States
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
SAVE THE DATE
BAD+
July 6-10 2022
HANGAR 14
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
LINDA KARSHAN
Backstage filming ‘Two Feet Walking’
By Ishmael Annobil, Filmmaker
In response to the architecture of Murray Edwards College
Cambridge University
8th April 2022
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A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
HELMUT FEDERLE
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
BENEDICTE DELAY WITH JASON BUTLER
‘ONE ON ONE’
Exhibition at ArtHouse Jersey
14 April – 2 May 2022
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NATURE NOTES:
HELLO TO SPRING, PARIS
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
A WALKED DRAWING, ‘TWO FEET WALKING’,
By Linda Karshan
In collaboration with Filmmaker, Ishmael Annobil
In response to the architecture of Murray Edwards College,
University of Cambridge
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ISHMAEL ANNOBIL, 'INSOMNIA'
Coming soon at L'Interstice, Arles
Opening on April 15, 2022
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
JASON BUTLER, ‘ONE ON ONE’
Launch new ArtHouse exhibition space
Jersey, England
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ART & LANGUAGE, "THESE SCENES", 2016
Acquired by Centre Pompidou
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ
Bauhaus-Museum,
Weimar, Germany
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
LOSING DAN GRAHAM
1942-2022
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
THE DEVELOPMENT OF BAD+
BORDEAUX + ART + DESIGN
New dates: July 6-10 2022, at HANGAR 14
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
2000 THANK YOU NOTES
7 February 2022
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
NEW SPACE FOR JSVCPROJECTS
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ROBERT STONE
Debut with Haines Gallery at FOG Design + Art 2022
San Francisco, CA
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
MISCHA KUBALL
nolde / kritik / documenta
A project by documenta archiv, Draiflessen Collection and Mischa Kuball
NEW DATE: FALL 2022
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UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022!
WARM WISHES AND NEW ADVENTURES
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
MINYADES
An exhibition of paintings by Richard Höglund
The Bonnier Gallery, Miami
December 2021
A Catalogue Essay
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
MISCHA KUBALL
ReferenzRäume
Museum Morsbroich
5 December – 24 April 2022
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ABOUT THE TREES
Thanksgiving 2021
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UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
THE WORLD MAP
Thanks to Mr Hide
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
KOEN VANMECHELEN LABIOMISTA, GENK (BELGIUM)
The book launch and debate
“NOT TO BE MISTAKEN”, November, 4th
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
OCTOBER 2021
"Linda Karshan: The Covid-19 Conversation"
Still in the limelight
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
POSTSCRIPT PARIS
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND III
Out of the oven
Warsaw Sept 28-Oct 3
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
HELMUT FEDERLE
NOVARTIS Campus – Forum 3, Basel
DIENER & DIENER - WIEDERIN
2005
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
BETWEEN LISTENING AND TELLING
Esther Shalev Gerz
Nuit Blanche Paris,
Tonight
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UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ART BASEL HALL 2.0C1
René Schmitt and ART & LANGUAGE
THESE SCENES, 2016
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
MISCHA KUBALL
Wolfsburg and Utopias
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
A new expedition on the CERAMIC & FOOD ROUTE
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
A new expedition on the CERAMIC & FOOD ROUTE
Bright blue and white ceramics fill the dining room with warmth and visual appeal
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO POLAND
A new expedition on the CERAMIC & FOOD ROUTE
Starts today in Warsaw through 3 October
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ
SUMMER IN PARIS
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UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ON THE ROAD AGAIN
ARCO MADRID,
1st Art Fair in 2 years
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UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
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UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
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UNAPOLOGETIC CONTENT.
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
IN THE ARTIST'S STUDIO
JASON BUTLER "THE COLLAGES"
Pop-Up Exhibition, Jersey
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STILL BEHIND THE SCENES:
NINA NOWAK'S EXHIBITION
Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
PER KIRKEBY UNREALISED BRICK PROJECTS
Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen
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NEW ARRIVALS:
MISCHA KUBALL
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A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
HELMUT FEDERLE NIETZSCHE-HAUS SILS-MARIA
Schwabe AG Basel, 2004 Peter André Bloch & Jan Thorn-Prikker
on the occasion of Helmut Federle's "Edelweiss im Nietzsche-Haus, Sils-Maria" exhibition in Nietzsche's Haus, Sept 2004 to July 2005
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
L'INTERSTICE ARLES OPENING
JOSETTE SAYERS AND GUILLAUME ZUILI'S PHOTOGRAPHS
Brave and fearless
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
CONGRATULATIONS ISHMAEL ANNOBIL
DIRECTOR for "LINDA KARSHAN: COVID-19 CONVERSATION"
WINNER BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY AT MYKONOS INTL FILM FES
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
THE LAUNCH OF REAL TIME AND THE 3BS
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
FLOWERS OF PERHAPS
LIOR GAL
ENGELS PLEIN, LEUVEN BELGIUM
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
MATHILDE BRETILLOT DESIGNS NEW MUSEUM FOR LA MANUFACTURE DE GIEN
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THIS TIME TWO YEARS AGO:
DRAW ART FAIR, LONDON, 2019, DESIGNER MATHILDE BRETILLOT AND ARCHITECT MISKA MILLER-LOVEGROVE
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NEW ARRIVALS:
WETTERLING, STOCKHOLM
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A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
HELMUT FEDERLE
ABSTRACT PAINTING OF AMERICA AND EUROPE
Ritter Verlag, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, 1988
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
LUKAS HOFFMANN, CNAP ACQUISITION AND TWO EXHIBITIONS
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ, WEFRAC 2021
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
"LINDA KARSHAN: COVID-19 CONVERSATION"
selected by Nawada and Hollywood Boulevard Festivals
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ
CNAP ACQUISITION,
"Describing Labor", 2012
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
A STUDIO VISIT WITH DEANNA PETHERBRIDGE
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
JSVCPROJECTS & INTERNATIONAL DESIGN EXPEDITIONS
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
HELMUT FEDERLE IN NEW YORK
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
RICHARD MILAZZO OBSZINE #3
The Sadness of Bad Thinking
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
RICHARD MILAZZO OBSZINE #3, ART, POETRY, AND THE PATHOS OF COMMUNICATION,
The Art of Impeachment
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
WITH POET/CURATOR RICHARD MILAZZO
REVISITING OBSZINE #3
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A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
POETRY IN SEDITIOUS TIMES
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HAPPY NEW YEAR AND SOUVENIRS FROM 2020!
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A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
DECEMBER 31, 2020
JASON BUTLER'S EXHIBITION
Meyer Schapiro, “Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist and Society
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
LIOR GALL, BRUSSELS, 2020
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HIGHLIGHT:
LOVE LETTERS
A new participative project by artist Koen Vanmechelen
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
LINDA KARSHAN AND THE BROOKLYN RAIL
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
NOVEMBER 2020, LINDA KARSHAN
The Covid Conversation, A New Film
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A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
PARIS, NOV. 6, 2020
ABËTËI by Ishmael Fiifi Annobil
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
MATHILDE BRETILLOT
Designs new offices for Parfums de Marly, Paris
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
BERLIN STUDIO VISIT - LUKAS HOFFMANN
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
BERLIN
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
GALERIE NÄCHST ST. STEPHAN ROSEMARIE SCHWARZWÄLDER, VIENNA
Friederike Mayröcker, Curator Hans Ulrich Obrist - until 10 Oct
Schutzgeister/Guardian Spirits
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
JSVCPROJECTS AND KOEN VANMECHELEN
The Battery Channel Podcast
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ARTISTS IN THE STUDIO, JERSEY
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
MANIFEST OF THE TRUE
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A WALK IN MY LIBRARY:
3 LOVE POEMS IN THE SUMMER
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
SUMMER NEWS
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ROD MENGHAM,
Awarded the Cholmondeley Award for Poets
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
JILL SILVERMAN VAN COENEGRACHTS RECOMMENDS
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
LINDA KARSHAN
Studio visit
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
STEFANO CIGADA,
"Frammenti" at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere
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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2020!
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
PER KIRKEBY,
"Brick Sculptures"
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
IDE TO PUGLIA
"Ceramic & Food Route",
Recent Summer 2019 Highlights
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JSVC HIGHLIGHTS:
ART & LANGUAGE, LONDON
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
DRAW ART FAIR LONDON
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ART & LANGUAGE, EXHIBITION AT GALERIE MICHAEL JANSSEN, Berlin
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
DR. SUSANNE A. KUDIELKA,
Private art collecting is a passion
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
KOEN VANMECHELEN
“It’s About Time”
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
DAYDREAMING WITH STANLEY KUBRICK,
Exhibition at Somerset House, London
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BEHIND THE SCENES:
ESTHER SHALEV-GERZ,
KING & KING
A new sculpture
Installed in the United States
May 23rd 2022
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Photos of the installation process, United States
During the pandemic period, Esther Shalev-Gerz conceived her new sculpture KING & KING, a gorgeous work recently installed in a private collection in the United States.
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Photos of the installation process, United States
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Photos of the installation process, United States
Inspired by the figurative bronze sculpture King and Queen by Henry Moore, this two-part sculpture was made from Portuguese blue marble and is placed on a dark charkcoal concrete base.
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Portuguese blue marble sculpture, Variable versions
Dark charkcoal concrete base, 1,05 m (H) x 1,75 m (L) x 1,30 m (W) © Esther Shalev-Gerz
The artist describes her work as:
“An abstract sculpture in marble, composed with two half-spheres creating a dynamic balance in the becoming. Each is crafted from a stone of slightly different structure and color. The two half-spheres are carved with a concave face, revealing a gap nestled between them.
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Portuguese blue marble sculpture, Variable versions
Dark charkcoal concrete base, 1,05 m (H) x 1,75 m (L) x 1,30 m (W) © Esther Shalev-Gerz
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Portuguese blue marble sculpture, Variable versions
Dark charkcoal concrete base, 1,05 m (H) x 1,75 m (L) x 1,30 m (W) © Esther Shalev-Gerz
The half-sphere alludes to the crowns that were shaped like skulls or shells, like natural figures of history layered in the stone. I wanted to create the work KING & KING to celebrate the splendor of alliance.
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Portuguese blue marble sculpture, Variable versions
Dark charkcoal concrete base, 1,05 m (H) x 1,75 m (L) x 1,30 m (W) © Esther Shalev-Gerz
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Portuguese blue marble sculpture, Variable versions
Dark charkcoal concrete base, 1,05 m (H) x 1,75 m (L) x 1,30 m (W) © Esther Shalev-Gerz
The sphere is an infrangible form that I often call upon in my projects. My dialogue with its fundamental symbolism requires a right approach as it evokes the cosmos, planets and the forming of new worlds, always leading to active and unexpected proposals.”
Esther Shalev-Gerz
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“The work is installed in an open landscape space surrounded by trees, a changing green setting that enters into dialogue with it: in this spring, the green foliage and a tree in full bloom frame the sculpture and enhance it, as in a Zen garden where all the elements are intimately linked and thought out together. With its curves and two embracing volumes, KING & KING offers a majestic and harmonious presence, at once firmly anchored to the earth and directed towards the sky, coiled in on itself and expanding. In a movement that is both balanced and unshakeable, circular and infinite, it makes the empty space around it vibrate. The delicately polished surface of the grey-blue marble reacts with its environment and the variations in light and atmosphere, constantly modifying the perception of these two joined forms: in turn, the grey glow of a cloudy sky is reflected on the curved and leaning face of the half-sphere positioned on the other, and is reflected even in its curved face; or, under a sharper light, the sun casts a very pronounced shadow, an ellipse that occupies almost the entire rectangle drawn by the base. KING & KING is a powerful and sensitive work, which reminds us of the energy contained in a simple body like the sphere, and confronts us with the potential of the curve, in a world populated by orthogonality and the rectilinear figure.”
Julia Dupont, Assistant at JSVCprojects