Playful investigations into sculpture and culture collide and combine. For Austrian Franz West, the psychology charged objectis a crucible in which matter changes shape. In the work of American Charles Ray, the recognizable things of the world–his own body, a toy fire truck, or a plain table-top–are never as simple as they first appear. Insert by Swiss video artist Pipilotti Rist. With texts by Jean Baudrillard, Peter Schjedahl, Robert Storr, Klaus Kertess, Christopher Knight and more.