18
Jan/13

HENRY MOORE: LATE LARGE FORMS

18
Jan/13
(photo by twi-ny/mdr)

Henry Moore exhibit offers unique viewing opportunities of the master’s large-scale works (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

Gagosian Gallery
522 West 21st St. between Tenth & Eleventh Aves.
Through Saturday, January 19, free, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
212-741-1717
www.gagosian.com
www.henry-moore.org
late large forms installation slideshow

When we visited the massive, impressive “Late Large Forms” Henry Moore exhibit at Gagosian’s Twenty-First-Street space in Chelsea, we were fortunate to be accompanied by a British ex-pat photographer friend who had been invited to photograph Moore and his sculptures on his Hertfordshire estate back in the 1970s. “On-REE,” he corrected us each time we said “HEN-ry” as we marveled at such beautiful, enormous works as the green “Large Two Forms,” the gold “Reclining Figure: Hand” and “Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae,” and the black “Large Spindle Piece.” The Gagosian has been turned into a kind of indoor sculpture garden where the works come together in fascinating imagined conversations as the viewer wanders around the space; make sure to take peeks through the holes in some of the pieces, and yes, you’re allowed to walk right through the middle of “Large Two Forms.” There is also a vitrine filled with maquettes and some of On-REE’s tools; our friend pointed out several miniatures that he remembered seeing in their full glory in Hertfordshire. “Everything I do, I intend to make on a large scale,” Moore once said. “Size itself has its own impact, and physically we can relate more strongly to a big sculpture than to a small one.” There is much to relate to at this splendid little show.