Sculpture is an art that wants forgiveness.
It makes apologies for the three-dimensional occupation which appears to misappropriate space from life. This would appear to be the position of the monument, the public sculpture in open places, which competes with our daily routine. Conversely in modern art, sculpture earns its forgiveness by means of the experimental use of materials and form. It employs abstract and figurative characteristics but constantly responds to the same logic, running counter to the monumental, in its endeavor not to widen but to curtail the distance between its formal exemplariness and r daily routine. Modern sculpture, in its proliferation, tends more and more to employ the characteristics of a total art.