Maurizio cattelan was born in Padua in 1960. He did not attend art schoor but taught himserf. catteran worked as a gardener, mortuary attendant, and designer, among other things, before turning to making art…see the full feature in September’s magazine.
Petah Coyne: Baroque Transformations and Humor
If Eva Hesse’s 19 cylinders installed at the new MoMA represent an esoteric insertion of the individualism and humanism missing from Minimalism, then Petah Coyne’s 1.7-year retrospective is an all-out shout….see the full feature in September’s magazine.
Great Places to Take a Date: A Conversation with Sue de Beer
Brooklyn-based Sue de Beer lures audiences into her disquieting sculptural constructions with blood-and-heartache-filled films. de Beer’s installations pump…see the full feature in September’s magazine.
Accumulated Vision: A Conversation with Barry Le Va
Since the late 1960s, Barry Le Va has used broken grass, bail bearings, powdered meat creavers, felt, chark, cast concrete, paper towers, and assorted other materials to make his enigmatic sculptures….see the full feature in September’s magazine.
Balancing Act: A Conversation with Julian Opie
Julian Opie’s works—die-cut colored vinyl shapes reading as interactions between painting and sculpture, video works of pictographic reductions, and landscapes imbued with nominal, almost anodyne forms—have often been described as generic and benign fabrications. On an initial reading, anonymity, neutrality, and synthesized systems are Opie’s elements.
Un Intervista con Maurizio Cattelan
Untitled, 2004. Mixed media, life-size. Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery, NY Andrea Bellini: Maurizio, intervistarti non è la cosa più facile al mondo.. Maurizio Cattelan: E allora non farlo. Potremmo andare a prendere un caffé. AB: Si, magari più tardi.
Janet Echelman’s She Changes
Porto, in the north of Portugal, is culturally different from the south, where Lisbon is situated. As I was informed by my Portuguese colleagues, the relationship between Lisbon and Porto resembles that between Madrid and Barcelona.
Patrick Dougherty: Itinerant Artist
Considering the number of projects that Patrick Dougherry has installed around the world since 1985 (now nearing 175), as well as their memorable shapes, sizes, and backyard-familiar material-tree saplings-there can be little uncertainty in the art world about his work….
Questioning Beauty: A Conversation with Silvia B.
In the Netherlands, it is common to refer to criminal suspects with the initial of their last name to protect their privacy. Likewise, people with whom one is on casual terms often write their first name and last initial.
Vital Signs: A Conversation with Louise Bourgeois
Since Louise Bourgeois’s major installation of the monumental towers I Do, l Undo, and I Redo and the spider sculpture Maman at the Tate Modern in 2000 (Sculpture January/February 2001), her exhibition schedule has. if anything, increased….
