COMO, ITALY Galleria Ramo A generous maker, Sgrinzatto allows the viewer’s imagination to move ahead of his personal intentions. It is, for instance, unlikely that he ever planned to destroy his creations. Instead, he appears to stress the latency of transformation, so that the speculative dimension contributes narrative tension to overt formality.
Erwin Wurm
WEST BRETTON, WAKEFIELD, U.K. Yorkshire Sculpture Park In Wurm’s practice, the distortion and disruption of familiar objects can be seen to alter orthodox notions of reality, offering alternative readings with regard to the material objects and spaces that define humankind.
Rosemarie Castoro
LLANDUDNO, WALES Mostyn A line of aluminum tape runs across the floor, walls, and ceiling of the space, dividing it in two. Castoro began to make these spatially delimiting pieces after she created a similar line, or crack, to demarcate work and living space in her New York loft.
Maximilian Goldfarb
BUFFALO, NEW YORK The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art Each of Goldfarb’s works marked an attempt to depict or reproduce an actual instrument of violence. When I realized that, a shiver crept up my neck—I was looking at an autopsy.
Natalie Ball
NEW YORK Whitney Museum Upending conventional practice, Ball’s seemingly random, unrestrained arrangements and innovative techniques overlay materials and references to childhood and assimilation with Indigenous customs and rituals to present a doubled vision that resists and critiques dominant white culture.
Martín Soto Climent
MEXICO CITY Museo de la Ciudad de México The act of non-imposition remains a priority for Soto Climent, who lives and works in Tepoztlán, a small mountain town about 90 minutes south of the city, where he is in close contact with nature.
Satpreet Kahlon
BELLEVUE, WASHINGTON Bellevue Arts MuseumWith a muffled soundtrack of poetry and music running through the darkened space, Kahlon’s exhibition became a total experience, immersing the viewer in an unsettling, unstable place, a site of exodus and arrival, captured in random flashpoints.
Sarah Lucas
LONDON Tate Britain Two monumental cast concrete marrows, Florian and Kevin (both 2013), greet visitors at the entrance to Tate Britain. These blatantly phallic forms are a fitting precursor to “Happy Gas,” an exuberant, if irreverent, survey of Sarah Lucas’s practice over four decades.
Anne Wu
BROOKLYN Smack Mellon Descendants of Bauhaus or De Stijl interiors, Wu’s sculptures assert bright, clean lines and use commonplace industrial materials. They evoke Fred Sandback’s 1999 description of his geometric yarn sculptures as “drawing that is habitable” and prompt associations or recollections.
