ARTISTS
The Human Factor
he Human Factor: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture, 17 June 鈥� Sunday 7 September 2014, Hayward Gallery. Spanning the past 25 years, The Human Factor focused on artists who use the figure as a means for exploring far-ranging concerns. Compelling and thought-provoking, their work brought into play ideas about history, voyeurism, sexuality and violence, while reflecting on how we represent the 鈥榟uman鈥� today.
Inventively remixing past and present, the artists in The Human Factor pointedly revisited classical traditions of sculpture, while drawing on representations of the human body in contemporary popular culture.
Highlighting remarkably varied approaches, the exhibition featured super-realistic portraits as well as sculptures that changed over time and others that evinced an uncannily indeterminate presence, hovering ghostlike between object and image. Yet whether overtly theatrical or quietly intimate, all of the works in this exhibition encouraged visitors to change the way we think about and perceive art鈥檚 oldest subject: the human form.
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he Human Factor: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture, 17 June 鈥� Sunday 7 September 2014, Hayward Gallery. Spanning the past 25 years, The Human Factor focused on artists who use the figure as a means for exploring far-ranging concerns. Compelling and thought-provoking, their work brought into play ideas about history, voyeurism, sexuality and violence, while reflecting on how we represent the 鈥榟uman鈥� today.
Inventively remixing past and present, the artists in The Human Factor pointedly revisited classical traditions of sculpture, while drawing on representations of the human body in contemporary popular culture.
Highlighting remarkably varied approaches, the exhibition featured super-realistic portraits as well as sculptures that changed over time and others that evinced an uncannily indeterminate presence, hovering ghostlike between object and image. Yet whether overtly theatrical or quietly intimate, all of the works in this exhibition encouraged visitors to change the way we think about and perceive art鈥檚 oldest subject: the human form.
Artists on show
- Andro Wekua
- Cady Noland
- Cathy Wilkes
- Frank Benson
- Georg Herold
- Huma Bhabha
- Isa Genzken
- Jeff Koons
- Katharina Fritsch
- Mark Wallinger
- Martin Honert
- Maurizio Cattelan
- Paloma Varga Weisz
- Pawel Althamer
- Pierre Huyghe
- Rachel Harrison
- Ralph Rugoff
- Rebecca Warren
- Ryan Gander
- Thomas Hirschhorn
- Thomas Schütte
- Ugo Rondinone
- Urs Fischer
- Yinka Shonibare
