Sculpture and the Material World

...Bringing together the impulses to “making” and “dwelling” by means of architectural form is another important aspect of contemporary sculpture. .... Karlis Rekevics evokes architecture in a more abstract and phenomenological fashion in gallery installations in suspended, unfinished form that refer to the Merzbau of Schwitters but also to the dissipated experience (both visual and visceral) of passing through the hybridized physical and cultural world today. There are numerous artists today working in unfinished construction materials, perhaps reversing the demolitions of Gordon Matta-Clark on the one hand and the cast interiors of Rachel Whiteread on another, but Rekevics creates plaster environments of a more poetic nature. Like Potrc, he is not reproducing or critiquing a built space; he is evoking an experience rather than making a literal construction...