Ongoing

Sculpture Garden

Mary M. and Sash A. Spencer Sculpture Garden

Featuring works by artists such as Anthony Caro, Gonzálo Fonseca, Edgar Negret, Ernesto Neto, Jedd Novatt, Pablo Atchugarry and Mark di Suvero, PAMM’s Sculpture Garden displays large-scale sculptures that can be enjoyed in the open air.

Highlights from the Exhibition

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Jedd Novatt, Chaos SAS, 2013
Courtesy Pérez Art Museum Miami. By the early 1970s, works of minimalism had come to dominate the landscape of public sculpture in the United States. Characterized by reductive, geometric forms fabricated in raw industrial materials like Corten steel and aluminum, its ideal products represent an exploration of the essential nature of sculptural practice and experience, engaging viewers in a carefully organized phenomenology of volume, weight, mass and theatricalized viewing space.
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Mark di Suvero, La Plume de Pierrot, 1974 Painted steel
Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, gift of Robert and Diane Moss. © Mark di Suvero, Courtesy of SpaceTime C.C. Mark di Suvero (b. 1933, Shanghai, China; lives in New York) began exhibiting his sculptures in the late 1950s and is considered one of the most important American sculptors to emerge in the Post-War period. He is a pioneer in the use of steel as a sculptural material, creating playful structures, at an architectural scale. As with La Plume de Pierrot, he often combines industrial products, such as steel I-beams with cut steel plates, covering them in brightly colored enamel paint. His dynamic use of geometric forms conveys his interest in the legacies of the Russian Constructivists of the 1920s, while his use of weight and movement reference similar investigations pursued by his peers working within gestural painting.
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Anthony Caro, Land of Milk and Honey, 2006 Bronze
Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, gift of Jorge M. Pérez.
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Gonzálo Fonseca, Column with Objects, 1969 Marble
Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, gift of Jorge M. Pérez.
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Pablo Atchugarry, Endless Evolution, 2015 Stainless steel
Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, gift of Jorge M. and Darlene Pérez.
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Edgar Negret, Fiesta Andina, 1992 Painted aluminum
Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, gift of Jorge M. Pérez.
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Jedd Novatt, Chaos Bizkaia, 2013
Courtesy Pérez Art Museum Miami. By the early 1970s, works of minimalism had come to dominate the landscape of public sculpture in the United States. Characterized by reductive, geometric forms fabricated in raw industrial materials like Corten steel and aluminum, its ideal products represent an exploration of the essential nature of sculptural practice and experience, engaging viewers in a carefully organized phenomenology of volume, weight, mass and theatricalized viewing space. For the last decade, Paris-based American artist Jedd Novatt has been employing and manipulating key minimalist visual and material tropes—the cube, unyielding medium, towering scale—in order to evolve the now long-stalled project beyond its traditional static and reflexive nature. Chaos Bizkaia (2012, bronze) and Chaos SAS (2013, stainless steel)—twisting, slipping, seemingly unstable stacks of monumental open rectangles—activate the lush tropical landscape of PAMM’s new sculpture garden with implied motion. As if arrested in a process of being formed from the primordial state of disorder to which the series title alludes, in a perpetual state of becoming, they inspire awe and impart grand emotions unfamiliar in the history of minimalism. Jedd Novatt (b. 1958) has been represented in recent solo and group exhibitions at such venues as Sotheby's Beyond Limits at Chatsworth, UK (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2013), the Lever House, New York (2013), Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio (2010), Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia (2009), and La Musee d’Art et d’Industrie, Roubaix, France (2008).
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Ernesto Neto, Espacio divisorio mínimo, 2008 Cor-Ten steel
Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, gift of Jorge M. and Darlene Pérez.
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Jesús Rafael Soto, Penetrable BBL Blue 2/8. Installation view, Pérez Art Museum Miami.
Long-term loan from Juan Carlos Maldonado
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Konstantin Grcic, Netscape. Installation view Pérez Art Museum Miami.
Photo courtesy Pérez Art Museum Miami

Highlights from the Exhibition

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