BASEL Fondation Beyeler At first glance, the works of Constantin Brancusi and Richard Serra have little in common. Serra’s work is an elegantly restrained analysis of how form can define and even dominate a space.
Dispatch: Israel Museum
Walking up the grand promenade of the refreshed and expanded, $100 million, 20-acre campus of the Israel Museum is exhilarating, even exalting. Approximately five years in the planning and execution, the museum’s 45th-anniversary building project is the most ambitious cultural development enterprise in Israel’s history.
Nivi Alroy
TEL AVIV Fresh Paint 4 Interdisciplinary artist Nivi Alroy, recipient of last year’s Igal Ahouvi Art Collection prize, recently presented “Food Chain,” an exhibition of sculptural installations, an animation piece, and paintings.
“Italian Sculpture of the XXI Century”
MILAN Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro For “Italian Sculpture of the XXI Century,” curator Marco Meneguzzo selected works by 80 artists, ranging from elder statesmen (Nunzio and Dessì) to mature artists of the next generation (Cattelan, Bartolini, Dynys, Arienti, Moro, Beecroft, Cecchini, Sissi, Demetz, and Cuoghi), to younger, up-and-coming artists (Sassolino, Simeti, Previdi, and Gennari).
John Beech
NEW YORK Peter Blum Gallery Favoring simple constructions that look back to the heyday of New York Minimalism in the 1960s, John Beech works just a bit differently from the artists whose work has so strongly influenced him.
Ayano Ohmi
NEW YORK Ceres Gallery Ayano Ohmi, a long-time resident of New York City, originally comes from Japan. Her recent show featured groupings of slender totems that belong to neither the Western nor the Asian tradition; instead, they relate to the now worldwide experience of modernity.
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
TORONTO Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery Originally featured at Documenta 12, Phantom Truck by Chicago-based Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle recently made its North American debut.
“Queloides: Race and Racism in Cuban Contemporary Art”
PITTSBURGH Mattress Factory In 2004, the Mattress Factory presented “CUBA: Artists in Residence,” an exhibition that included site installations by 11 Cuban artists who were denied visas to the U.S.
Frances Trombly and Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova
MIAMI Bass Museum of Art Two of Miami’s most intriguing sculptors, wife and husband Frances Trombly and Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova, recently collaborated on an exhibition at the Bass Museum.
Mags Harries
BOSTON Boston Sculptors Gallery Mags Harries is interested in starting conversations through sculptural chairs. Occasionally she builds them so people can sit in them and talk, but more often, at least in the works in this show, people will talk about them rather than in them.
