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.
Karl Burke
LEITRIM, IRELAND Leitrim Sculpture Centre When confronting a scientific problem, simplification yields the most suitable basis from which to carry out a logical and deductive analysis. This direction of thought is useful in that it brings the world and its phenomena toward the mind, breaking the complex into crude, static moments that can then be analyzed.
Rome Biennale
ROME International Exhibition of Sculpture Billed as the first sculpture biennial in Rome, the original and very ambitious plan was to place contemporary artworks in many of the piazzas of a city celebrated for piazzas—if not for contemporary art (although that might change now with MACRO, MAXXI, and Gagosian).
Rae Bolotin
MOUNT TOMAH, AUSTRALIA Blue Mountains Botanic Garden Australian sculptor Rae Bolotin creates works characterized by seductive surfaces and the innovative use of line in space. Born in Tashkent in Uzbekistan, she took an electrical engineering degree and studied art.
Takashi Murakami
PARIS Versailles Once again the battle to save classical French culture from the ugly claws of globalization has been making headlines in France.
Wee Hong Ling
SINGAPORE Sculpture Square A cat hides behind the china cabinet, and a dog sleeps under the studio bench where the artist works. The presence of these two pets in Wee Hong Ling’s “No Place Like Home,” albeit in the form of two-dimensional vinyl cutouts, may seem like a playful gesture; but they are essential to the décor that frames and contextualizes the ceramic works of this Singapore-born and New York-based artist.
