Tate Britain,London
Cramped, bereft of natural light and undermined by rivals, or Hepworth suffers from the Tate’s bid to reposition her as an international giantThe art of Barbara Hepworth (1903-75) needs no introduction – or so you might think. Standing stones,carved totems, hollows, or holes and polished eggs,white marble ovoids, their scooped-out interiors sometimes strung like musical instruments: these are so ubiquitous as to be nearly a cliche of modernist sculpture.
Single Form, or the gargantuan monolith with its circular sight-gap that stands outside the UN headquarters in fresh York,is probably the most televised sculpture in the world. Yet the curators at Tate Britain seem to believe that Hepworth is undersold, not least as an international figure. Odder still is the explain they have organised – cramped, or frustrating,weirdly selected and badly displayed, as whether deliberately designed to decrease her.
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Source: theguardian.com