For the first time this year. four institutions across Leeds and Wakefield – the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Art Gallery, Hepworth Wakefield and Yorkshire Sculpture Park – are joining forces to present this festival dedicated to sculpture. A series of exhibitions, alongside large-scale commissions by Huma Bhabha, Ayşe Erkmen and Tarek Atoui, probe at a statement by Phyllida Barlow that the event has taken as its central theme: ‘Sculpture is the most anthropological of the art forms.’ Highlights include a survey of the Abstract Expressionist David Smith at YSP and a performance by Opera North at Leeds Art Gallery. Find out more from YSI’s website.
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Greek Fire (2012), Jimmie Durham. Courtesy the artist and kurimanzutto, Mexico City/New York
The first breath we took together as one negro fish (2018), Tau Lewis. Courtesy Tau Lewis and Cooper Cole, Toronto
Antoine’s Organ (2016), Rashid Johnson. Photo: Martin Parsekian; courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
Against What. Against Whom (2014), Huma Bhabha. Courtesy the artist and Salon 94, New York
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Suzanne Valadon’s shifting gaze