Sculpture 25

By Andrew Frost

Sculpture 25 celebrates the practice of artists working in nearly all of the available dimensions, with the possible exception of time, and exotic dimensions hidden from view, through an array of figurative and abstract works. Of the 15 artists featured in Sculpture 25 perhaps Chico Monks has the coolest name, so suggestive of a classic Blue Note drummer, and the work is pretty cool too, pop assemblages stacked up like towers, and off the floor on a plinth, charming and humorous.

Simon Hodgson’s steel skeletons have the schematic aesthetic of an architect’s outline, and their provisional status adds something beguiling to their visual appeal. A number of bronzes by artists including Oliffe Richmond, Phillip Piperides and Terry Stringer offer a warm  if familiar artistic sentiment, but it’s Clement Meadmore’s commanding works from the early 1970s and 1990s, twists and bow ties, curlicues and straight lines that are the big deal.

Until July 24

Robin Gibson Gallery, Darlinghurst

Pic: Clement Meadmore, Crossing, 1997. Bronze, 18×28×20cm, edition of 8. Courtesy Robin Gibson Gallery.