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The Arts Intel Report

Carol Bove: Vase/Face

Carl Bove’s work, on show at David Zwirner Paris.

Oct 17 – Dec 17, 2022
108 Rue Vieille du Temple 75003 Paris, France

Carol Bove’s new steel sculptures become one with their industrial-gray environment. This is done on purpose: it presses the viewer to consider the phenomenology of form. Bove works in sandblasted stainless steel, but also manipulates each element of a sculpture’s setting, whether by adding a huge three-dimensional version of a “Rubin’s vase” in the gray room, or deploying bright colors in a second room. The two rooms are sort of inverses of each other, leaving the viewer to ask what the words “opposite” and “duality” really mean. Is nothing the inverse of something? —Clara Molot

Photo courtesy of David Zwirner