Mike Nelson, whose practice stretches back to the early 1990s, is best known for hauntingly realistic built environments constructed from salvaged materials and time-soaked objects. Rich in narrative, these genuinely immersive sculptural worlds draw on cultural, political, and historical references to provide strangely moving, and often unsettling, experiences for the viewer.
Materialized Nature: A Conversation with Anna Hulačová
Anna Hulačová’s “Bucolica,” currently on view at Kunstraum Dornbirn in Austria, contrasts ancient and modern practices related to the land, fine and folk art techniques, as well as abstract and representational imagery. Agriculture, rural life, and the development of industrialization play an important role in her work, as do live bees.
Simon Starling
KENDAL AND WINDERMERE, U.K. Abbot Hall and Windermere Jetty Museum Shedboatshed embodies many of Starling’s themes, including material transformation, cyclical journeys, and an unpicking of capitalist production.
Light, Time, and Space: A Conversation with Benjamín Ossa
Chilean artist Benjamín Ossa takes an expansive approach to the world, letting himself be guided by light in works that appeal to experience. Focusing on issues of perception, time, the relation between body and space, and the study of phenomena and their displacement, his works challenge the limits of categorization.
Traces of Actions: A Conversation with Michael Beutler
For Michael Beutler, a professor of sculpture in Hamburg, Germany, an exhibition is a kind of workshop. His work isn’t necessarily made in the studio and transported to a gallery; instead, it unfolds in response to its location, in conversation with the surrounding space, and is created with the help of a large team.
Martin Puryear
BOSTON Museum of Fine Arts While Puryear’s forms may hint at the figurative, the language of abstraction has always been his vehicle for structural realizations that transcend any particular artistic style, or easy interpretation.
Moving in the In-Between: A Conversation with Olaf Holzapfel
Olaf Holzapfel’s works bridge sculpture, painting, and architecture, traditional craft and contemporary art, nature and culture, the virtual and the real. Born in Dresden, in former East Germany, the Berlin-based artist has long been interested in borders and boundaries—the purposes they serve (overt or hidden) and how to overcome them.
Manuel A. Rodríguez-Delgado
BUFFALO, NEW YORK The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art Two bodies of interrelated work simultaneously awkward and elegant, eccentric and meticulous artifacts scrupulously assembled from contemporary debris, read like scrappy and glitchy roadside attractions plucked from a Cormac McCarthy desert and plopped into an underfunded but pristine interstellar museum on a Samuel R. Delany planet.
Sandy Skoglund
SAN ANTONIO McNay Art Museum Sandy Skoglund, a multimedia artist whose work encompasses photography, sculpture, and installation, is perhaps best known for Radioactive Cats (1980), a photograph in which dozens of neon green cats infiltrate a drearily gray kitchen, its inhabitants somehow oblivious to the infestation.
Modelando mundos: Una conversación con Andrés Pasinovich
Artista visual y músico, Andrés Pasinovich aborda su formación de la mano de destacados artistas argentinos tales como Eduardo Medici, Marina De Caro, Ana Gallardo y el CIA (Centro de Investigaciones Artísticas). Su obra toma el espacio haciendo uso de distintos lenguajes visuales y técnicas donde las instalaciones juegan un rol clave, amalgamando propuestas en
