On the Cover:
Peter Buggenhout, On Hold #24, 2023. Mixed media, 191 x 181 x 168 cm. Photo: © Dirk Pauwels, © the artist and Axel Vervoordt Gallery.
Editor’s Letter:
For over 100 years, the avant-garde has tried to probe the limits of what makes art art. All of the artists featured in this issue continue that tradition in ways both contemporary and striking. Yuko Mohri’s kinetic sound installations recruit everything from fruit to the gallery itself as generators of sensory phenomena. Peter Buggenhout marshals the most degraded of discarded materials to, as he says, “make a shape that you couldn’t easily trace back to anything you had seen before—not made by me or somebody else, not in art practice, not in sculpture.” Martin Boyce’s pieces often mimic ordinary, utilitarian things: a bit of architecture, concrete flooring, a telephone. For him, he says, “it was always important that what I was doing was art, was sculpture,” despite the fact that his works could, out of context, be taken for things that aren’t art. Using digital renderings and a 3D printer, Bill Albertini creates the fanciful forms of his “baroque Minimalism,” while Juliana Cerqueira Leite employs a variety of materials—from plaster and clay to Aqua-Resin—to produce semi-figurative pieces that she calls “indexes of movement.” Together, these artists demonstrate the promise and power of reimagining what art can be. —Daniel Kunitz, Editor-in-Chief
