True to Form Sculpture Exhibition in Chelsea June 8-July 8, 2023

Bjorn Skaarup, Hippo Circus Ribbon Dancer, ED. 1 of 9, 2022

Beginning tomorrow, Thursday, June 8 and running through July 8, 2023, Cavalier Gallery Chelsea will present its first annual sculpture exhibition with select works by contemporary artists and modern masters, including internationally acclaimed sculptor Bjørn Okholm Skaarup.

New Yorkers may recognize Skaarup’s contemporary work, whose larger-than-life sculptures have been publicly installed around Manhattan in recent years. Skaarup is best known for his now-iconic 15-foot-tall Hippo Ballerina, who has danced around Manhattan since 2017, debuting at Lincoln Center and gracing the Flatiron District before spending most of 2022 in Pershing Square Plaza West. True to Form features much more diminutive variations of the 2.5-ton ballerina, including Skaarup’s Hippo Tightrope Walker, a 4-foot-tall bronze with a golden-colored leotard and a white fabric tutu. Hippo Ballerina is dually inspired by Edgar Degas’s Little Dancer Aged Fourteen (1878–1881) and Walt Disney’s Fantasia (1940). Skaarup’s fanciful sculptures are also on view at One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in Midtown East. 

True to Form is on view at Cavalier Gallery, 530 W 24^th Street, New York, NY from June 8 through July 8, 2023 Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and by appointment.