Shape of things to come (2009)

This huge book - the largest on contemporary sculpture yet to appear - is itself an object. The sequence of nearly 700 pages creates, as its title suggests, an artistic vision of the future. The novel by H G. Wells, to which the title refers, envisioned events up to the twenty-second century and served both as a surprisingly accurate prophecy and a reflection of the author\'s own time. The book was a touchstone for Stanley Kubrick\'s masterpiece, the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), in...