Chelsea: Sculpture

Di Suvero's beam shifts to your body weight; Fritsch enlarges toys into monuments; Penone responds to trees in bronze; Akashi casts grief from her burned garden; Wurm dresses absence in cloth. Five sculptors arguing about what objects are for.

5 exhibitions

Mark di Suvero: Avanti!

Paula Cooper, 534 W 21st Street

Sculptures and drawings including a 23-foot beam suspended in a steel circle that shifts to a viewer's body weight.

May 2 - Jul 17

Katharina Fritsch

Matthew Marks, 522 W 22nd St

Five monumental sculptures — Car and Caravan stretches 30+ feet — arranged from above to loosely resemble a face.

May 7 - Jun 27

Giuseppe Penone: The Reflection of Bronze

Gagosian, 555 24th Street

Penone's first NY Gagosian show: bronze sculptures rooted in his late-1960s exploration of trees, tracing time and change.

Apr 22 - Jul 2

Kelly Akashi: Heirloom

Lisson, 508 W 24th Street

Loss and grief, materialized: bronze roses cast from her burned garden, an inherited stone ring at geological scale, Corten lace.

May 13 - Jul 25

Erwin Wurm: Double Dream

Lehmann Maupin

Wurm's experiments with the figure — Dreamers with pillow torsos, Substitutes in which clothing stands in for the body.

Apr 23 - Jun 6