Robert Wiens: Recent Sculpture

Four elegant and compelling sculptural elements -- a wide bowl and a log carved out of laminated wood, a circular pile of hundreds of wooden hands, and a copper foot suggesting a fragment of a huge monument -- make up this installation of Ontario sculptor Robert Wiens' recent work. Less sociopolitically specific than some of his earlier work, these pieces play with the historical convention of sculpture as monumental statuary, and include references to Wiens' own identity as a maker, and to his materials and processes. An informative catalogue accompanies the exhibition, which has been organized and circulated by Oakville Galleries, with funding from the Exhibition Assistance Program of the Canada Council.