Senosiain’ s huge glass mosaic water snake, dipping in and out of Schow Pond at the Clark’ s entrance, is both heavy and colorful. Deeper into the show, Hayden’ s massive hemlock ribcage and Bacon’ s willow piece“ growing” from the woodland floor are designed to disintegrate. The theme for this year’ s Sculpture at The Mount is“ Movement,” informed by the movement in Edith Wharton’ s physical and emotional life. She crossed the Atlantic Ocean 60 times, made major residential moves— most notably from New York to Lenox and from Lenox to Paris— and was no stranger to personal transformation.“ While jurying this exhibition, we aimed to be open about what movement can mean for sculpture,” says guest juror Sarah Montross, Director of deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts.“ There are captivating kinetic artworks that respond to or evoke patterns of wind, lifecycles, or orbital phenomena. There are also artworks that relate directly to themes of natural growth, mortality and transience, which are types of movement as well.”
American writer, designer, and first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Wharton designed The Mount and its stunning landscape in 1902. The show’ s 25 sculptures journey along about a mile of woodland paths, skirting the sunken Italian Garden,
Sculptures by the prolific Harold Grinspoon are on exhibition as part of Chesterwood ' s 47th Annual Contemporary Outdoor Sculpture Show, Global Warming / Global Warning!, through October 31.( Gregory Cherin)
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