Despite the presence of an avant-garde since the 1980s, figurative art remains important in China. This is not to say that Chinese culture rejects abstraction; instead, its preference for realist art is based on centuries of traditional painting focused on the landscape, which many scholars regard as its highest achievement.
Camilo Guinot: Exacting Immateriality
Camilo Guinot’s work is notable for its sensitivity and meticulousness. The Argentinian artist works on each piece like a surgeon. He approaches everything in his environment as a potential medium for expression, discrediting no technique or material as he experiments with installation, sculpture, drawing, photography, and performance.
Peru’s Contemporary Sculptors: Crafting New Social and Cultural Identities
Peru’s sculptors range broadly in ethnicity, processes, and materials, yet many share a keen awareness of their country’s cultural heritage. With a new president, a new culture minister, and surging tourism, Peru is still struggling to overcome its legacy of gang, cult, and government violence (an ongoing dilemma that resulted in more than 60,000 murders
Listening to Stones: A Conversation with Lika Mutal
Lika Mutal, an Israeli-born, New York-based artist, specializes in working across the interstices of art categories. Most often, her work has to do with photography and video, but her images also explore the boundaries of two-dimensional and three-dimensional form.
Green Magic of Recycling: Suzanne Morlock
An 80-foot-long train of knitted newspaper “glides” through the gallery space at the Central Museum of Textiles in tód´z, Poland. Its tangled, dynamic shape plays with air, light, and structural elements, winding around pillars and hovering just below the ceiling.
Working with the Wind: A Conversation with Tim Prentice
Tim Prentice is a kinetic sculptor whose works can be seen in many public buildings and corporate collections, including American Express, Bank of America, Citigroup, Mobil, AT&T, and Hewlett-Packard. He received a master’s degree in architecture from Yale in 1960 and founded the award-winning architectural firm of Prentice and Chan in 1965.
Andrew Mowbray: Weird Science and Aesthetics
Andrew Mowbray makes objects that, in the spirit of his hero Marcel Duchamp, upend elitist notions about the artist, the art object, and its place in the traditional white-box gallery. His finely tooled works—frequently carved out of ivory polyurethane—are often used in video performances sited outside or staged within gallery walls.
Ranjani Shettar: Playing with Creation
Ranjani Shettar says that she turned from painting to sculpture because “I realized I had to move around the object, it had to occupy the same space that I did and there was no illusion in it.
Rita McBride: (Re) Negotiating the Public Realm
American artist Rita McBride has spent the past decade living and working in Germany. She can be characterized as a sculptor with a passion for probing materials previously unexplored in the arts or at the cutting edge of research.
Shuli Sadé: Thinking in Time
Shuli Sadé, an Israeli-born, New York-based artist, specializes in working across the interstices of art categories. Most often, her work has to do with photography and video, but her images also explore the boundaries of two-dimensional and three-dimensional form.
