Hepworth sculpture prize review – a brilliant beginning

The Hepworth, Wakefield
The four finalists for the UK’s newest sculpture prize open up a rich, contrary world of bubble spumes, fly-catchers and petrified forest
White foam heaves itself up through transparent tubes, forming tottering columns that collapse in slow, serpentine cascades, subsiding into soapy clouds that melt into nothing in the circular pool below. First made in the 1960s, David Medalla’s Cloud Canyons remain ephemeral and beautiful things, in constant flux between for