The Easel

1st July 2025

Alice Adams, Louise Bourgeois, and Eva Hesse delve into art’s ‘uckiness’ at The Courtauld

Katie Tobin | Wallpaper | 22nd June 2025

A 1966 sculpture exhibition in New York featured work that was breaking away from minimalism for something more sensuous. It earned the title ‘eccentric abstraction’. That sensibility has endured and appears in a London show via works that focus on body parts and textures. Erotic it is not, with “bulging, drooping sculptures” and “various turdlike piles and unpleasant growths and cavities”. It’s more a confrontation with “bodiness” – the works are “very tempting to touch”. A video (4 min) is here.

Technology in the service of art

Niccolo Lucarelli | Contemporary Lynx | 24th March 2025

Inspired by the surrealists to “change the rules of the game”, Lijn has spent her career making sculpture that mixes art and science. That means kinetic sculpture, poetry-infused machines, and various animated installations. Regrettably, her unconventional work, now given a prestigious retrospective, is being smothered by impenetrable jargon. For example, is her work “technological feminism – and what exactly does that mean? It’s all a bit unclear. An interview with the artist is here.

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