Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Sculpture so Different, so Appealing? - ACE138.3

Caption: "Lisson Gallery, London, represents the majority of the ‘New British Sculptors… including Julian Opie’". Exhibition opening. Nairne on new ideas. Cash This (1983). John Roberts, critic, on the "new British sculpture" phenomenon. VO over more shots of the show. Nicholas Logsdail, Lisson Gallery, suggests that "movements" can be created by critics and curators who see and group works together. The exhibition. Logsdail VO. Opie’s A Pile of Old Masters (1983), Eat Dirt Art History (1983). VO by Michael Newman, critic. Newman on the value of art as a reflection of contemporary culture. Advertising billboards. Sculptures which comment on consumerism. Opie constructing a sculpture outside the Hayward Gallery; the "graffiti"on the back. Opie talks about how he works. Getting Organised (1983). Nairne concerned that the gains of the 1970s – concerns around representation and feminism, for example – might get lost, not least because of "the market". Nairne VO continues over black and white illustrations of 1970s works, commenting on work by Richard Long, Gilbert and George, and Carl Andre, all of which have an "analytical feeling" absent from more recent ideas.