BERLIN Buchmann Galerie Wilhelm Mundt’s boulder-shaped sculptures are immediate, yet they seem to be all about process and duration. They are also physically polished and perfect. Mundt has been making these brightly colored “Trashstones,” as he calls them, since 1989.
Mike Rathbun
BOISE, IDAHO Boise Art Museum The muscular arc of Mike Rathbun’s The Situation He Found Himself In became visible as soon as one entered the foyer of the Boise Art Museum.
Jongsun Lee
UTICA, NEW YORK Sculpture Space During her two-month residency at Sculpture Space, Jongsun Lee, a peripatetic artist and social sculptor, produced thousands of hand-shaped rice bowls in the studio by day and presented several interactive performances off site in the evening.
La Wilson
HUDSON, NEW YORK John Davis Gallery Now in her mid-80s, Ohio-based, primarily self-taught La Wilson has long made resonant, even transgressive-feeling assemblage works. Her signature form is the box, which she uses to hold compositions made up of everyday objects, very much like a conventional frame provides a border for a painting’s pictorial space.
James O. Clark and Forrest Myers
QUEENS, NEW YORK Regina Rex Western, particularly American, artists will never cease in their quest to find the aesthetic in common objects, to be inventive with found and discarded materials.
Yutaka Sone
NEW YORK David Zwirner “Island,” the title of Japanese sculptor Yutaka Sone’s recent show, seemed to refer to the remarkable Little Manhattan (2007–09), a marble sculpture of New York City’s most famous borough.
Art Hong Kong 11
HONG KONG Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre If there was one word to describe the fourth edition of Art Hong Kong (also known as Art HK 11), it would be “buzzing.”
Marisa Merz
NEW YORK Barbara Gladstone Gallery Marisa Merz, one of Arte Povera’s band of stellar sculptors (and the widow of Mario Merz, who also belonged to the group), looks to the attractions of industrial materials.
Jinny Yu
OTTAWA Patrick Mikhail Gallery Nominally a painter, Jinny Yu explored materiality in her “Latest from New York” exhibition, which included sculpted aluminum and oil pieces. She sees herself at the interstices of identity—of Korean birth, living in Ottawa, practicing in New York, Italy, Montreal, and elsewhere.
Shirazeh Houshiary
LONDON Lisson Gallery Shirazeh Houshiary’s “No Boundary Condition” presented itself as an exhibition of paradoxes—paintings that felt three-dimensional, manmade objects that felt organic, chaotic sculptural compositions that somehow seemed simple.
