by Hans Josephson (Artist), Dominic Eichler (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Clare Lilley (Text by (Art/Photo Books))

A generous offering of Josephsohn's arresting figural sculptures, whose intensely worked surfaces invoke the artist's existential view of the human condition

Swiss sculptor Hans Josephsohn (1920-2012) took the human figure as his lifelong subject. Manifesting in the form of a head, a half-figure or a standing or reclining nude, his works are almost archaic in appearance but always anchored in the present.