With a career spanning over seven decades, Philadelphia-born, Paris-based sculptor Barbara Chase-Riboud has long been an innovator in sculptural composition. Her materiality is characterised by the interplay between folds of cast bronze or aluminium and skeins of wool and silk which are knotted, braided, looped and woven. The book features an illustrated chronology of her works, as well as a selection of the artist’s poetry and writing.Pitting opposing qualities against one another—hard and soft, light against heavy and tactile versus rigid—the artist’s iconic monumental sculptures explore, in her own words, “reversing and upsetting the established order and the hierarchy of parts as only a true revolutionary does.” At an encyclopaedic exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, these pieces feature alongside never-before-seen early bronze casts, in addition to new work created less than a year before the exhibition. ISBN 9783753303833. Walther Koenig. hb. 180 pages. 92 ills. 29 x 22 cm.not available
