Sculpture Key West 2008    
      BASTION, AFFECTATION, DIFFERENCES?
Installation at Sculpture Key West 2008
2008 Catalogue
article by Mary Ceruti, Executive Director of SculptureCenter
       
 

 

In 2008, sculpture is a broad field and its boundaries are quite porous. Sculpture doesn't "decorate" space, it takes up space. In fact, the best sculpture actually creates it;s own space or significantly alters the way we experience a place. Take for example, Karlis Rekevics' Bastion, Affectation, Differences?: the semi-carnivalesque architectural structure posits fragmentary images of Key West. The white plaster forms are blank and unarticulated save for the impressions left by the molds in which they were cast. This gives the work a sense of absence.