LATEST NEWS / 16.05.13

INSIDE THE ARTIST'S STUDIO: JULIAN WILD

In the heart of the East Sussex countryside is the studio of the artist, Julian Wild. Julian's work explores questions about form, material, structure and line. We went to his studio to find out more about his current projects and the upcoming event at the Foundation, Making the Connection: Your upcoming project, Making the Connection, is a community based work which asks the viewer to take up the role of the participant. What are your feelings on viewer participation? Do you feel it is an important element of sculpture in particular? Julian: Making the Connection came out of a residency I was doing at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. One of the things I had to do as part of the residency was create a community project. I hadn

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LATEST NEWS / 01.01.13

THE ART NEWSPAPER: PORTUGUESE BILLIONAIRE ADDS WORKS INSPIRED BY BAMIYAN BUDDHAS TO HIS VAST SCULPTURE PARK

Sculptures by Fernando Botero and Tony Cragg are also on show in José Berardo's space north of Lisbon. The Portuguese billionaire José Berardo has added an homage to the sixth-century Bamiyan Buddhas, destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, to his sculpture park in Quinta dos Loridos, north of Lisbon. “We have not recreated the Buddhas themselves, rather we commissioned 6,000 tons of stone sculptures from [Chinese] artisans in the Shijiazhuang area,” says Zaid Abdali, the project manager, adding “6,000 tons being the estimated weight of the lost sculptures”. There are 1,217 sculptures dotted around the 35-hectare park, which has opened in phases since 2006. There is even an army of 45 terracotta warriors bas

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