Description
There is one kind of structure that defies the principles of both simultaneity and oscillation, and whose verticality is comparable, therefore, neither to that of the tree or the lighthouse, nor to that of the person. This is the statue. Tim IngoldSculpture is the first monograph dedicated to the work of New Yorkbased British artist Jesse Wine (b. 1983), bringing together a substantial body of work produced between 2016 and 2023. Wine's colorfully expressive sculptures investigate notions of the body and the gesture, and how they fit into and cohabit with capitalist society and the urban landscape. This richly illustrated volume includes essays by writer and editor Amy Sherlock, exploring the historical context of gestures and movements in art; by SculptureCenter deputy director Kyle Dancewicz, providing his analysis of Imperfect List, Wine's first institutional US solo exhibition; and by anthropologist Tim Ingold, delving into the materiality and symbolic meaning of clay, the artist's
