The Downside Of Freeing Sculpture

Sculpture can be whatever it wants these days – there’s no defining aesthetic or style that has to be followed. “The down side is, if sculpture can be anything, then maybe it is not anything in particular. It loses a sense of tradition, identity and purpose. And it becomes hard for people to care very passionately about it (the way many people still care about painting), much less evaluate it. If you think that artists, like children, need limits, you may not like what has become of sculpture.”