NORTHERN IRELAND Down County Museum Assembled from cardboard or mountboard (most of it taken from the bases of fruit and vegetable boxes), the small forms were then collaged with found, painted, and drawn images and written commentary. Though these “building blocks” may recall simple children’s toys, they also contain a very strong sociopolitical axis that demands to be “read.”
Time Levels: A Conversation with Claudia Wieser
German artist Claudia Wieser works with photo-based wallpaper, ceramic tile, and other seemingly decorative elements to create environments filled with crisscrossing historical and biographical narratives. Working between art and utilitarian object, she considers the various components in her structures, which refer to art, architecture, design, film, and theater, as “individuals in a constellation.”
Otobong Nkanga
DALLAS Nasher Sculpture Center Along the cord’s length, there is a rhythmic evolution to the colors: one section dark and earthen like compost, becoming a stringy, mottled cream, then a beetroot purple, studded with seeds. It is also punctuated by a number of enormous, milky glass beads in analogous colors. From afar this gives the form the look of an oversize rosary.
Open Intervals: A Conversation with Lucila Sancineti
Lucila Sancineti, a visual artist trained at the University of Buenos Aires and a literature instructor, continuously explores ways of working with matter. Her interdisciplinary approach to sculpture and installation employs painting, textiles, ceramics, and biomaterials to extend our perceptions of ordinary encounters, objects, and experiences.
Gabriel Orozco
MEXICO CITY Museo Jumex “Politécnico Nacional,” Gabriel Orozco’s first museum show in Mexico since 2006 and his most expansive survey to date, presents the work of a global artist who nevertheless remains emblematic of Mexico City’s contemporary art scene.
Alberto Giacometti and Huma Bhabha
LONDON Barbican Hovering somewhere between human and non-human, ancient and modern, the familiar and the strange, these are anti-monuments, cast in bronze from carved cork and skull fragments, their surfaces gouged and incised.
Folkert de Jong and Tild Greene
AMSTERDAM Projectspace 38/40 In some instances, we can recognize parts from everyday objects, while in others, we might incidentally mistake the sculptures for exposed MEP (mechanical, electrical, or plumbing systems) belonging to the site. The works clearly complement each other: the more subtle and abstract presence of Greene’s sculptures offsets the heavier and iconic presence of de Jong’s work.
Interstitial Existence: A Conversation with Kishio Suga
For six decades, Kishio Suga has explored the question of whether intentions adhere to things. One of Japan’s most important artists and a key figure in the Mono-ha movement, he began his career in the late 1960s, using natural and industrial materials to create temporary installations that aimed to show “the reality of mono (things/materials) and the jōkyō (situation) that holds them together.”
Señalamientos: Una Conversación con Voluspa Jarpa
Oriunda de Rancagua, Chile, la artista multidisciplinaria Voluspa Jarpa, Docente Universidad Católica de Chile y con una vasta formación no solamente en el campo del arte sino en todas las áreas que comprometen, cultural y políticamente, el desarrollo y comprensión de los movimientos sociales, la historia y su representación.
Positive Negatives: A Conversation with Roland Persson
The work of Swedish artist Roland Persson manifests a profoundly complex verisimilitude. This applies not only to the nature of his subject matter, which ranges from dreams and personal experience to considerations of the human condition, our relationship to nature, and the vagaries of urban life, but also to form and content, which are governed by his scientific attention to detail, technical skill, material choices, and psychological approach.
