Five Artists Define Sculpture in Louisiana Museum Video

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen released a video featuring five contemporary artists—Sarah Sze, Antony Gormley, Phyllida Barlow, Richard Serra, and Doug Aitken—each explaining their personal interpretation of sculpture. Sze describes sculpture as starting from the object, while Gormley synthesizes the human figure using primary geometric forms in metal. Barlow, who was the protagonist of the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale that year, works with large conglomerations of wood, cardboard, and papier-mâché. Sze creates ethereal, fragmented installations; Serra builds imposing minimal structures; and Aitken makes 'living sculptures' that react to environmental inputs. The video connects their practices to the long history of the medium.