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Fragments of a Faith Forgotten
The Art of Harry Smith

October 4–September 28, 2023
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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The first solo exhibition of artist, experimental filmmaker, and groundbreaking musicologist Harry Smith (1923–1991)—whose 1952 compendium of song recordings, Anthology of American Folk Music, laid the groundwork for the popularization of folk music in the 1960s—is cocurated and designed by Carol Bove. This major survey introduces Smith’s life and work within a museum setting for the first time and includes paintings, drawings, experimental films, designs, and objects from Smith’s personal collections, such as string figures and found paper airplanes.

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Making Their Mark

November 2, 2023–January 27, 2024
Shah Garg Foundation, New York
www.shahgargfoundation.org

Making Their Mark, curated by Cecilia Alemani, showcases the works of more than seventy women artists from the last eight decades. The exhibition champions the lives and work of women artists, bringing into vibrant relief their intergenerational relationships, formal and material breakthroughs, and historical impact. Through drawings, mixed media, paintings, sculptures, and textile works, these artists aim to rechart art history through their singular, iconic practices. Work by Carol Bove, Jadé Fadojutimi, Sarah Sze, and Mary Weatherford is included.

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Entangled, Ensnared, Entwined
Carol Bove, Hu Xiaoyuan, Alicja Kwade

March 3–August 15, 2023
Longlati Foundation, Shanghai
www.longlatifoundation.org

Counterposing the work of Carol Bove, Hu Xiaoyuan, and Alicja Kwade, this exhibition reflects their nuanced insights into the sculptural forms of personal, psychological, and social attachments. Three sub-themes—“Entangled Positions,” “Ensnared Beings,” and “Entwined Engagements”—describe various dimensions of intertwining as a metaphor for living in or with nature.

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Carol Bove
Collage Sculptures

October 16, 2021–January 9, 2022
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
www.nashersculpturecenter.org

In the first major museum presentation focused solely on Carol Bove’s steel sculptures, Collage Sculptures brings together nine sculptures, two of which were made especially for this exhibition. Bove’s recent works take as their point of departure the means, materials, and visual language of a certain mode of midcentury sculpture often found in plazas and other public spaces. By welding and bolting together different forms of steel, from found scrap metal to tubes coated in rich, matte layers of color, Bove creates new possibilities for traditions previously considered to be exhausted.

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The Facade Commission: Carol Bove
The séances aren’t helping

March 1–October 26, 2021
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Carol Bove’s The séances aren’t helping (2021) is the second commission to be featured on the facade of the Met Fifth Avenue. Working improvisationally, Bove sculpts at scale and in the round, without any preparatory drawings. Engaging with the niches and columns of the museum’s facade, she constructed four abstract sculptures made of sandblasted, contorted stainless-steel tubes and reflective aluminum disks. Despite the weight and heft of these sculptures, they appear astoundingly lithe and supple, almost mercurial.

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Carol Bove and John Chamberlain
Converse

July 27, 2019–July 26, 2020
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition places sculptures by Carol Bove and John Chamberlain in dialogue, offering visitors opportunities to discover points of convergence and divergence across the artists’ approaches. Bove combines rough found metal with dexterously manipulated and highly finished painted steel. Although her work is often linked to Chamberlain’s assemblages of crushed car and machine parts, the two artists differ radically in their thinking about color, form, and the way that sculpture structures the space around it.

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Carol Bove in
57th Biennale di Venezia

May 13–November 26, 2017
Giardini, Venice
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Swiss-born Alberto Giacometti created Femmes de Venise (Women of Venice) in 1956 for the 28th Biennale di Venezia, exhibiting them in the French Pavilion to make clear his refusal to be constrained by national borders. Aiming to explore Giacometti’s absence in the history of the Swiss Pavilion, curator Philipp Kaiser presents new works by Carol Bove and the artist duo Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler that dialogue with Giacometti’s work. Bove’s painted steel constructions—including Woman of Venice I, II, and III (all 2017)—engage directly with Giacometti’s late figurative sculpture, alluding to a substitution.