Contemporary art is trying to shock, trying to give art back its emotional function. One can hardly come out of almost any contemporary art gallery indifferent. All art objects are made with one message or another, otherwise you get “empty”. Often artists create art objects on the wave of certain events happening in the world, trying to convey to the viewer or listener a certain idea. It is safe to say that all this also applies to sculpture – to an absolutely full extent. We can also distinguish the following trends.

• Reflexive Direction. Representatives of this trend in sculpture are inspired by classical sculpture, recognized masters of this art form and their works, creating art objects according to classical “schemes” and the most obvious motifs. However, it is completely impossible, and not necessary, to call this approach trivial: after all, sculpture was and remains an extremely complex area of art. For example, in painting, the artist creates a two-dimensional image, flat, while the sculptor must observe a lot of proportions, literally, in natural format.
• Postmodern. Here we can combine everything that was said above: here the sculptor is trying to shock, and if not to shock, then to convey to the viewer a certain thought and a completely certain message. Such works cannot be called unambiguous, almost always they cause a tangible resonance. In this case, the most unusual materials are used. No, of course, can be used and the usual, but against the background of the exploitation of interesting forms and subjects used and interesting materials, sometimes even completely unsuitable, at first glance, in this field. Extremely popular are various kinds of installations rather than sculptures.
• Technological direction. Science is stepping forward and more and more popular, for example, 3D-printers, capable of using a special mechanism to create real, pre-designed masterpieces. This direction, of course, is heavily criticized by various retrogrades, but despite this, it is extremely promising.