Sculpted

From 5 June to 25 July 2025, Ordovas presents Sculpted, an exhibition bringing together sculptures by leading modern and contemporary artists, and exploring the ways in which they approach the materiality and dimensionality of the medium. United by a notion of the ‘void’, the works presented highlight how negative space has been used in sculpture to evoke emotion and response by some of the most notable artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

The exhibition presents a selection of works diverse in size and subject, and executed in a range of mediums and techniques; they range from Bronze Form (Patmos), an abstract sculpture by Dame Barbara Hepworth from 1962-63 which was executed to commemorate the seascape of the Greek island which the artist had visited in 1954; to a recent creation by Yassi Mazandi, the Iranian-born artist whose work is driven by a response to nature, and whose installation Language of the Birds, was until recently on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Other featured artists include Alexander Calder, Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, Ana Mendieta, Henry Moore, Andy Warhol and Rachel Whiteread. The catalogue will include an essay written by Jon Wood, former Research Curator at the Henry Moore Institute.

This is the third in a series of summer exhibitions to be held at Ordovas exploring different techniques and mediums in twentieth-century and contemporary art; it follows Stitched, which took place in 2022, and Drawn: 30 Portraits in 2023, whose catalogue included an essay written by Dr. Catherine Daunt, the Hamish Parker Curator of Modern and Contemporary Graphic Art at the British Museum.