Author(s): Hans Josephson (Artist); Dominic Eichler (Text by); Clare Lilley (Text by); Hans Josephsohn (Contribution by); Hans Ulrich Obrist (Contribution by)

Art

A generous offering of Josephsohn's arresting figural sculptures, whose intensely worked surfaces invoke the artist's existential view of the human condition

Swiss sculptor Hans Josephsohn (1920-2012) took the human figure as his lifelong subject. Manifesting in the form of a head, a half-figure or a standing or reclining nude, his works are almost archaic in appearance but always anchored in the present.