{"title":"Willard Boepple","description":"\u003cp\u003eWillard Boepple (born 1944, New York) is an American sculptor whose practice has developed over five decades through a sustained engagement with structure, material and the logic of familiar objects. Trained at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, Boepple worked closely with Anthony Caro and later taught at Bennington College in Vermont, where he was part of a generation of sculptors working in the tradition of constructed, abstract, non-representational form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoepple’s sculpture begins repeatedly with structures associated with use — shelves, ladders, looms, trestles, towers, rooms — and subjects them to a process of reduction and reorganisation. Working in wood, resin, aluminium and steel, he retains the proportions of furniture or architecture without allowing the work to settle into either category. The result is a body of sculpture that is simultaneously legible and displaced: recognisable in its references, but operating at a remove from function.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe exhibited regularly with Broadbent Gallery in London from 2001, with solo presentations in 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2008, and with Lori Bookstein Fine Art in New York. Publications produced in connection with these exhibitions — catalogues, checklists, and printed matter — document a practice that has remained consistently attentive to the relationship between object, space and the conditions of display.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"willard-boepple-new-sculpture-broadbent-gallery-2008","title":"WILLARD BOEPPLE — New Sculpture. Broadbent Gallery, London, 2008","description":"\u003cp\u003eLondon: Broadbent Gallery, 2008. Exhibition catalogue published for \u003cem\u003eNew Sculpture\u003c\/em\u003e, 14 March–26 April 2008, Broadbent Gallery, London. Softcover, staple-bound. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. 25 × 20 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good. Rubbing and light surface marking to wrappers, with shallow creasing, small splits along the left edge and softened corners. Faint pencil or pressure marks to the front cover. Interior clean and complete.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 2008, WILLARD BOEPPLE had been exhibiting with Broadbent for several years, following solo presentations at the London gallery in 2001, 2003 and 2005. This catalogue accompanied \u003cem\u003eNew Sculpture\u003c\/em\u003e, held from 14 March to 26 April 2008; later that year, his Looms were shown at Lori Bookstein Fine Art in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoepple’s sculpture repeatedly begins with structures associated with use: shelves, ladders, rooms, looms, towers and trestles. These familiar forms are reduced and reorganised in wood, resin, aluminium and steel, retaining the proportions of furniture or architecture without settling into either category.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReproduced here, \u003cem\u003eIrish Corners\u003c\/em\u003e (2007) places angled plates and irregular blocks within an open aluminium framework. The shelf remains recognisable, but storage has been replaced by balance, interruption and empty space. Throughout the catalogue, sculptures are isolated against broad white fields, transferring their open construction into the measured sequence of the page.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publication is similarly reduced: the artist’s name centred on the front, the gallery address placed low on the reverse. Cover wear now interrupts that otherwise controlled surface, while the interior retains the clean spacing of its original exhibition use.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadbent Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53986330706258,"sku":"BOEPPLE-BROADBENT-CAT-2008","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Boepple_Willard._The_Sense_of_Things_Broadbent_Gallery._2008.jpg?v=1783900335"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/willard-boepple.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}