WHAT
The well-respected American sculptor (b. 1941) is known for creating works ranging in material, scale, and form, and which embrace an investigation of process and a vocabulary of recti-linear shapes. Throughout his career, he has always focused on ways that sculpture can engage architecture and landscape. The exhibition marks the artist’s first solo presentation in Hong Kong, and brings together various sculptures in wood and bronze over the past 30 years, which highlight various aspects of gravity, mass, and form – sculptural elements that Shapiro is known for.

WHY
Subverting a distinction between abstraction and representation, the artworks elicit a sense of movement through the arrangement of simplified elements. They are powerful pieces that suggest active human forms, which appear to reach, balance, and dance, engaging viewers’ physical and psychological relationships with space. A must for all audiences who are fans of contemporary sculpture.