Carol Bove
Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
Born in 1971, American artist Carol Bove makes work that illuminates the complex encounter that is experiencing art. For Bove, no material nor form is a given. Her selection of media for sculptures encompasses all manner of possible materials, some found, some manufactured, some organic. Display too is a field ripe for experiment in which the artist plays with our conditioning as viewers: what we bring to looking at art from life in general and art history in particular. The artist has been honoured with solo exhibitions at institutions including The Museum of Modern Art New York, Palais de Tokyo, Paris and the Kunsthalle Zurich. A recent project, exhibited at several European venues, staged a duet between works by Bove and designs and sculptures by the Italian architect Carlo Scarpa.
