Gabriel Chaile blends past and present in his poetic sculptures, uniting ancient ritual and function with a contemporary social consciousness. His colossal adobe oven-creatures inspired by pre-Columbian forms are regularly used for baking empanadas and bringing people together to share a meal.
Temporalities and Memories: A Conversation with Solange Pessoa
Solange Pessoa’s work deals in substances and relations between things that, for her, relate to the history of the earth and of humanity. She draws attention to states of matter and processes of change, giving meaning to material energies.
Between Narratives: A Conversation with Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran
Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran—who was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in Australia—has created an underworld, or dreamworld, populated by idols for his first European exhibition, “Idols of Mud and Water.”
Tottering Monsters: A Conversation with Joseph Buckley
Joseph Buckley hails from Leeds, U.K., but since 2013, he has been developing his practice in the United States, first in Connecticut while studying for his MFA in Sculpture at Yale School of Art and now in New York.
El Anatsui
LONDON Tate Modern Long before being commissioned for Turbine Hall, El Anatsui knew the Tate name. When he was growing up in Ghana (formerly known as Gold Coast, a British Crown colony until 1957), the only cube sugar available was supplied by the London-based conglomerate, Tate and Lyle.
Madeline Hollander
NEW YORK Bortolami Rather than trading on Deleuzian idioms and hackneyed “rhizomatic” platitudes—which, even if applicable, merely describe the ubiquity of synthetic processes, having little to do with sculpture’s necessary domain of optical perception—Hollander’s work homes in on the relations of linked relata.
Beyond Conventional Practice: A Conversation with Megha Joshi
Passionate and opinionated, a self-described feminist and atheist, Megha Joshi is unapologetic in her work and life, questioning misogynistic beliefs and practices. Her sculptures and installations, made with sacred items such as oil lamp wicks, beads, and incense sticks, often take an ironic turn as ritual function and subject matter collide.
Habitar los límites: Una Conversación con Andrea Nosetti
Realizadora de objetos que transitan los límites entre el adorno decorativo y las piezas de arte, la artista plástica Andrea Nosetti se apoya en el azar para dejarse llevar por sus dictados para construir pequeñas escenas cuasi teatrales o de gabinete de curiosidades.
Nicolò Masiero Sgrinzatto
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.
Counter Images: A Conversation with Raphaela Vogel
Raphaela Vogel’s practice has evolved like the proverbial rolling snowball. As a student, she became interested in the performative aspects of painting, which led her to video (featuring herself and sometimes her dog as performers), to self-recorded music and what she calls “video sculptures,” as well as to large-scale installations combining all of these elements.
