Over a fifty-year career, Robert Grosvenor has produced a body of work that is at once solidly physical and conceptual, muscular and fluid. Grosvenor frequently uses industrial materials and found objects as he experiments with texture and scale, resulting in sculptures that reveal a handmade quality and subtle vein of humor. In 2017, the Renaissance Society presented an exhibition of the sculptor's untitled work from 1989 to 1990. Re-contextualized within a spare architectural installation, this assemblage of materials and found objects eludes interpretation at the same time as it asserts its form and construction. Such nuances, combined with its ambiguous scale, evoke what critic John Yau has suggested is the labor of an "anonymous worker." Grosvenor has made significant contributions as a sculptor over the past fifty years, but relatively few books have been published about his work. This monograph documents the Renaissance Society show and also features new scholarship considering Grosvenor's work with a broad scope. The text includes contributions by Yves-Alain Bois, Bruce Hainley, Susan Howe, John Yau, and Renaissance Society executive director and chief curator Solveig Ovstebo.

About the Author
Solveig vsteb is executive director and chief curator of the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. Robert Grosvenor was born in New York City in 1937 and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Ecole Nationale Sup rieure des Arts D coratifs in France and the Universit di Perugia in Italy. Important one-person exhibitions of Grosvenor's work have been presented at the Kunsthalle Bern (1992) and the Funda o de Serralves, Porto (2005), and he participated in the 2010 Whitney Biennial.


Book Information
ISBN 9780941548724
Author Solveig Ovstebo
Format Hardback
Page Count 160
Imprint Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
Publisher Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
Weight(grams) 666g
Dimensions(mm) 250mm * 150mm * 15mm