Japanese artist Shiho Kagabu employs industrial and organic materials, often installing her work in rough, run-down environments. In many ways, she shares the contemporary predisposition for the fragment rather than the whole, but her positioning of these parts in space is unique.
La experimentación curiosa: Una Conversación con Jimena Croceri
Artista multidisciplinaria, Jimena Croceri trabaja en el campo de la performance, el video, la producción de objetos, el dibujo y la escritura. Con la mirada puesta en los cuerpos, observa la interacción entre materialidades diversas y sus afectos en dichos cuerpos.
Bruce Beasley: Process of Becoming
Just about everything Bruce Beasley has sculpted over the last 60 years circles around one fundamental question: How can an unmoving object—made of enduring materials such as cast iron, aluminum, bronze, stainless steel, granite, acrylic polymer resin, and maple—seem to be in the shape it takes only momentarily, either having recently come to rest in
Life Stories: A Conversation with Carla Gimbatti
Carla Gimbatti, who divides her time between Buenos Aires and New York, begins her work with obser- vation. Interested in origins, she wants to know what lies behind the patterns and textures of the world—the marks of time and experience written into everything from immense sedimentary land formations to the tiniest details of human handprints.
Passion To Connect: A Conversation with Bhajan Hunjan
Bhajan Hunjan was born and raised in Kenya. After moving to the U.K. to study fine art at Reading University, she went on to gain a postgraduate degree in printmaking from the Slade School of Fine Art and to study ceramics at the former Central School of Art in London.
Controlled Explosions: A Conversation with Leonardo Drew
Leonardo Drew’s massive wall-bound tableaux, objects, and installations engage the cyclical nature of existence. Made to resemble the detritus of everyday life, his abstract, emotionally charged compositions possess a metaphorical weight, transcending time and place to approach the infinite through the discarded and finite.
Memory Is a Weapon: A Conversation with Ricardo Brey
Assemblage sculptor, installation artist, and draftsman Ricardo Brey attended art school in his native Havana and went on to join the experimental art group Volumen Uno, which distanced itself from the precepts of Cuban socialist realism.
Forms of Prediction: A Conversation with Gabriel Kuri
“Forecast,” Gabriel Kuri’s current exhibition at the Museo Jumex in Mexico City, is his first institutional survey in the country where he grew up. Featuring more than 50 works, including three new pieces, the show centers around the idea of art as a “forecast” that might predict and imagine what is to come.
Into Cacophony: A Conversation with Michael Dean
Michael Dean’s work begins with words—his own writing, found phrases, nonsensical fragments, and repetitions—which he alters and twists into personalized typographies, then translates into forms in space. The sculptures that give flesh to his texts are as raw, streetwise, and mutable as the words themselves, rooted in his Newcastle-upon-Tyne upbringing and later years in London.
Coleccionista de huesos: Una Conversación con Gabriela Acha
Licenciada en Escultura de la Facultad de Artes, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, la artista visual y curadora Gabriela Acha produce un tipo de obra que toma como punto de partida el análisis de los métodos que aplican las ciencias y el arte para abordar la naturaleza como objeto de estudio.
