Temptation

Creating a sense of volume in his work was paramount to American artist Wendell Castle. He was able to achieve the broad curves of Temptation through first sculpting them in stack-laminated wood, a process he invented in search of a means to work on a larger scale. Now rendered in bronze, and supported on dynamic spires that erupt from the ground, Temptation is emblematic of the renewed vigour and creativity Castle achieved in the later stages of his career.