Charles Ray: Sculpture review – Chicago's figurative king crashes through art taboo

Art Institute of Chicago
Ray’s sculpture has been deemed too gauche for some galleries but this career retrospective shows how profound his often mock-heroic sculpture can beThe car’s a wreck – the left door has crumpled, the bumper’s on the floor, and the bonnet has roared up and smashed the windscreen. But it doesn’t feel like a wreck when you circumambulate it, gazing at every little crinkle on its shattered surface. It feels, instead, as if the car were born wrecked. It feels flawl