LaGrange, Georgia Cochran Gallery A cursory glance around the gallery—a tastefully restored, turn-of-the-century dry cleaning establishment—offers no aesthetic frisson. Open packing crates used to ship art are strewn about seemingly at random. Tools for mounting exhibitions litter the floor: a drill, hammer, and nails.
Oskar OK Krajewski
London Oxo Tower Gallery Oskar OK Krajewski, a Polish artist living in London, works across multiple media, often combining traditional sculpture techniques and materials with the latest technology, sensor lights, movement, and sound. The title of his exhibition, “Recycled Future,” refers to a project of the same name—a “NeoSculpture” made of over 25,000 recycled and
Angelo Arnold
Rutland, Vermont Castleton University Bank Gallery Engaging, humorous, and disconcerting, Angelo Arnold’s quirky sculptures invite and mystify with their anthropomorphism. The figures seem displaced from their usual place in life. In Not Today, for instance, a feminine form, dressed in elegant brocade, sits demurely with legs and arms crossed.
Armen Agop
Brussels LKFF Art & Sculpture Projects Materializations of pure thought, Armen Agop’s sculptures are charged with inherent monumentality regardless of their dimensions. His recent exhibition, “Emergence,” focused on an exploration of volume, with works unburdened by narrative or association that transcend solidity of shape to suggest potential energy.
“Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300–Now)”
New York The Met Breuer Daring and at times creepy, “Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body” celebrated the pursuit of imitative realism in Western figurative art, the desire to replicate the living human body. Invitees to this raucous, party-like exhibition included a mechanical, brocade-gowned Sleeping Beauty from Madame Tussauds (remade in 1989) “breathing” softly
In Progress: Kiefer and Rodin
Late in his career, Auguste Rodin constructed strange assemblages by affixing plaster fragments of his figural sculptures onto antique terra-cotta pots from his collection, creating hybrid forms with little artistic precedent. As Rodin scholar Bénédicte Garnier has written, “The true revolution lay in this mix of objects from the past with works in progress.”
Crossing Thresholds: A Conversation with Tallur L.N.
An artist of complex oppositions and striking balances, divisions and unities, Tallur L.N. spends half the year in India and half in South Korea, maintaining independent studio practices in both countries. He studied partly in Northern England for a Masters, and he exhibits partly in New York and partly in Mumbai.
Sliding Into the Unknown: A Conversation with Saint Clair Cemin
Saint Clair Cemin’s work ranges across numerous genres, all pervaded by his unique sensibility and spirit. From 40-foot-tall monuments in locations worldwide down to softball-size objects in stone, metal, wood, and syn- thetics, his sculptures delight, amuse, and mesmerize.
Alana Bartol
CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary A small, one-room structure built from salvaged wood filled the center of the gallery at TRUCK. Apparently an office, it contained a desk, a recycling bin, a fake plant, and a clock, whose minute and hour hands never moved. The desk was neatly arranged with papers and files, just like any regular office desk.
Michio Fukuoka
OSAKA, JAPAN National Museum of Art, Osaka In a conformist society of sophisticated stylization, the Japanese sculptor Michio Fukuoka stands out as an outcast. A “Sculptor Who No Longer Sculpts,” as he’s identified by this retrospective, he questions logical frames of mind and, with his keen intuition, is quick to defy them.
