Carol Bove. Ten Hours

Carol Bove. Ten Hours
01.11.2019 - 14.12.2019

David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of new sculpture by American artist Carol Bove (b. 1971). On view at the gallery’s Hong Kong location, this show will mark the artist’s first solo presentation in Asia, and will follow her participation in the 58th Venice Biennale.

Expanding on the artist’s playful and incisive engagement with material and form, the exhibition will feature work from Bove’s ongoing series of “collage sculptures,” begun in 2016. Characterized by compositions of different types of steel in various scales, these sculptural assemblages amalgamate theoretical and art-historical influences from across time periods and disciplines, much like the 1960s work of the Chicago Imagists, whose collagist aesthetic combined disparate styles and techniques. To make these dynamic sculptures, the artist crushes and shapes stainless-steel tubing over and around itself, then applies luminous color to the overall form, transforming the steel—more commonly associated with inflexibility and heft—into something that appears malleable and lightweight, like clay, fabric, or crinkled paper.