“Everything is sculpture,” said the Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi. “Any material, any idea without hindrance born into space, I consider sculpture.” Influenced by Constantin Brâncuși, Noguchi spent his life making abstract art that felt drawn from nature. He established a studio on Japan’s Shikoku Island, where he lived six months a year until his death, carving large basalt and granite works. Preoccupied with the passage of time, Noguchi once said, “If you can escape from that time constraint, then the whole world becomes someplace where you belong.” This non-chronological survey explores the artist’s work across media. One thinks of the opening line in T. S. Eliot’s “Burnt Norton,” the first of his Four Quartets. “Time present and time past / Are both perhaps present in time future, / And time future contained in time past.” —Elena Clavarino
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Isamu Noguchi: Landscapes of Time

Isamu Noguchi, Remembrance (Mortality), 1944.
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Until Oct 13
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Photo: © The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York / Artists Rights Society