Carol Bove: Chimes at Midnight | Viewing Room

Carol Bove: Chimes at Midnight previews major new works on view in the artist’s solo exhibition, now open at 20th Street in New York.

One of Bove’s most dramatic installations to date, this exhibition transforms the gallery space, enveloping the viewer in an immersive presentation that considers the phenomenological experience of form and the surrounding space.

Installation view, Carol Bove: Chimes at Midnight, David Zwirner, New York, 2021

Carol Bove, Chimes at Midnight V, 2021 (detail)

The Chimes at Midnight works emphasize verticality and convey an apparent lightness that belies their materiality. Composing improvisationally at an unprecedented scale, Bove crushes and shapes stainless-steel tubing. Finished with a highly saturated, matte orange-red finish, these deftly manipulated tubes are juxtaposed with bent sheets of hot-rolled steel.

Carol Bove

Chimes at Midnight V, 2021

Steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint

121 x 66 x 54 inches (307.3 x 167.6 x 137.2 cm)

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“When you are looking at them you have to walk around them. You have to experiment on them as a viewer. And that is a process that I really think about in laying the show out. From every position there are very constructed and deliberate views.”

—Carol Bove

Process imagery featuring Carol Bove’s work in her studio, 2021

“The way they make contact with the floor makes them seem very light. I think it's because they are not built from the ground up but constructed in the air, using gantries and cranes.”

—Carol Bove

Carol Bove

Chimes at Midnight I, 2021

Steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint

120 x 80 x 57 inches (304.8 x 203.2 x 144.8 cm)

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These works confound perception in the way they elide a fixed sense of their scale and materiality. The sculptures reward sustained viewing from different angles, and in relation to the wider installation, thereby “bringing to consciousness the act of looking,” as the artist has explained.

Carol Bove

Chimes at Midnight III, 2021

Steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint

120 x 48 x 60 inches (304.8 x 121.9 x 152.4 cm)

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Chimes at Midnight coincides with The Facade Commission: Carol Bove, The séances aren’t helping, monumental works commissioned for The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s storied Fifth Avenue facade, on view through November 2021.

Carol Bove in her Red Hook studio, courtesy of The New York Times . Photo by George Etheredge

Carol Bove: Chimes at Midnight opens April 29

537 West 20th Street, New York

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