The Last Sculpture is an edited time-lapse video that follows the formative years of a large sculpture as it comes into being. This project began as a kind of “Fuck-it” moment in response to growing pressures to close my studio in 2010 amidst the desolation wrought by the Great Recession. Thinking I had about 6 months to process this transition, with what time I had left, I decided to experiment on a much larger scale than I ordinarily would. From day one I took photos of my progress. Without a plan or image of where I was heading, I worked through a zig-zag process imposing various ordeals and what-if scenarios onto the sculpture, as a kind of educational track, and as a route to something unforeseen. Six months passed, things picked up for me economically and I continued working on The Last Sculpture. Perhaps I should have referred to it as “The Lasting Sculpture,” as it occupied my attention and dreams for another 10 years and we are together in my studio to this day. It won’t fit out the door.....

about the artist:

Hans Accola (b. 1967) is an artist and designer who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Since the early 1990’s he has shown work in many venues such as in New York at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Derek Eller, Frederieke Taylor, and David Zwirner and in Boston at Genovese/Sullivan. Accola has also exhibited in the non-commercial exhibition spaces, Triple Candy, Blohard, Happy Lucky #1 and Springs Projects, as well as the Suermondt Ludwig Museum in Aachen, Germany, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN.

Accola received a BFA in 1990 from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. He has been awarded two grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and fellowships from the Bush Foundation and Jerome Foundation.