"Sculpture is different from painting"
 

David Salle, at NYRB: "This may sound like a tautology, but sculpture really is different from paiting. As broad material categories go, painting is a matter between the painter and the painting, or at most between the painter and a single viewer; it implies interiority and a metaphorical worldview. Sculpture, by virtue of existing in the round, by displacing actual space, implies the public view. One shares space with it, walks around it, takes it in from different angles, as if ratifying the fact of its existence. Painting deals with representations or imitations: pictorail space is a matter of imaginative projection and, finally, an illusion. A car in a painting is a dream of a car, a metaphor of escape; in sculpture it's an actual thing--you feel as though you could kick the tires. That's another way of saying that sculpture is not as privileged as painting; it has to work harder to reach the ineffable."

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