Clara Kim April 15, 1998

"I think we wanted to look at what was happening, in terms of what's happening in contemporary times. There's just so much going on in terms of new media, computer technology, videos that are being used, the television, film, and all these different kinds of art-making collapsing onto each other. There are artists who are trying new and different things with the technology that's out there, and I think that's very exciting. And so the show developed with that in mind, with what the Walker has, with the sculptural holdings that the Walker has. And we kind of looked at that with our three-dimensional works and what's happening now and figured out a way to conceptualize sculptural practice in the last 100 years, from the pedestal, as the title suggests, from pedestal-oriented works ... I think our oldest piece in the show is the Rodin marble [Auguste Rodin's Le Baiser du Fantôme à la Jeune Fille (Phantom Kissing a Young Girl)], [an] unfinished marble study that's dated circa 1895. So we started looking at that--and our strongest holdings here at the Walker are from the [19]60s and '70s, our minimalist works--so we developed into that and then gradually [added] works that kind of collapse the boundaries between traditional artistic media, bringing in computer technology. And we've also noticed, you know, that a lot of artists deal with blatantly social and political issues, and so we wanted a space to talk about those kinds of interests and we thought this was a good way to do it."

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Auguste Rodin's LA JEUNE FILLE (PHANTOM KISSING A YOUNG GIRL)  (at center) February 22-May 24, 1998 100 YEARS OF SCULPTURE: FROM THE PEDESTAL TO THE PIXEL

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