Vibha Galhotra’s first exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery began dramatically with Neo Camouflage (2008), an installation in which four mannequins dressed in military garb stood guard before a large photo mural of Old Delhi rooftops. The panoramic vista, seen from a tower of the Jama Masjid mosque (the city’s highest spot), casts a god-like omnipresence
Turning Dross to Gold: Zeke Moores
Zeke Moores’s work interrogates the mass-produced object and the hand-crafted work of art. Focusing on the detritus of contemporary life, he replicates dumpsters, cardboard boxes, wooden pallets, pylons, and the leftovers of our modern industrial society in materials that challenge and confound how we assign value and gauge aesthetic beauty.
Inspired by the Faroe Islands: Tróndur Patursson
The birds were soon to migrate across the Atlantic, from the village of Kirkjubø on Streymoy Island to North America—their destination, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Created by Faroese sculptor Tróndur Patursson, these birds are made of glass.
Futility and Enchantment: A Conversation with Sudarshan Shetty
“The setting of the installation plays out the falseness and futility in the objects, the artificial. Our engagement with the world of objects is very connected to our own mortality. In our making and gathering of objects, there is a sense of futility.
Edgardo Madanes: Roads Created
Buenos Aires-based Edgardo Madanes studied at the National School of Fine Arts Prilidiano Pueyrredon, taking such well-known artists as Nora Correa and Norberto Gomez as his mentors. Correa’s soft volumes, with their contrast between textile and sculpture, particularly captured Madanes’s attention, as did Gomez’s perfect balance between concept and passion.
Real and Imagined Movement: Robert Mangold
Denver sculptor Robert Mangold considers himself to be a “realist,” but his definition of the term is fairly idiosyncratic considering his abstract and non-objective works. For Mangold, who avoids even a whiff of representational imagery in his pieces, being a “realist” means that he’s interested in physical reality—in real gravity, in real movement, and in
Out of the Ordinary: A Conversation with Kaarina Kaikkonen
Kaarina Kaikkonen, one of Finland’s leading artists, first showed her work at Art Basel Miami Beach in a 2004 exhibition curated by Julia P. Herzberg and Carol Damian. And It Was Empty—thousands of used men’s jackets arranged along a wall, somewhat reminiscent of the hanging jackets in Kaikkonen’s boat-shaped installation at the Havana Biennale earlier
Straight Into the Big: David Mach
No marble or bronze for sculptor David Mach. For over 35 years, he has been transforming bulk raw materials and what many consider junk or garbage—old tires, magazines, out-of-date telephone directories, empty bottles, Barbie dolls, postcards, coat hangers, and matches—into memorable, wacky, inventive, crowd-drawing public art.
Speak, Materials: Dan Steinhilber’s Way with the Everyday
Do you remember the sound of your parents’ basement? The drone of the dehumidifier, the steady whir of the dryer, the hollow thump made by Uncle Kent’s college trunk? Dan Steinhilber does. Marlin Underground, his installation on the lower level of the Kreeger Museum in Washington, DC, (on view until December 29) consists of an ensemble
A Conversation with Adrián Villar Rojas: The End of the Human Race
Many contemporary artists create large-scale installations, but those fabricated by the young Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas stand out for their audacity, originality, ambition, and fragility. Born in 1980 in Rosario, Villar Rojas has completed installations around the world, for exhibitions as far flung as the Biennial of the End of the World in Ushuaia,
