Hablar del Grupo Bondi—nombre que sale del lunfardo para referirse a los colectivos públicos de Buenos Aires—es, ante todo, hacer referencia a un colectivo de artistas que se vinculan bajo una bandera común para pensar propuestas creativas, operando en el campo del diseño industrial en su interacción con la vida cotidiana, asumiendo una mirada artística.
Cynthia Lahti
NEW YORK James Fuentes Lahti uses a range of clays, from dark red to porcelain, and she also varies her sculpting, glazing, and firing methods (which include raku and salt firing). Her approach to building heads and figures seem to reference a wide swath of art history.
Repetition & Endurance: A Conversation with Mary Mattingly
For Mary Mattingly, art is about life and survival. Her interlinked earth-, water-, food-, and community- centered projects attune us to the planet’s basic rhythms and needs (as well as our own), helping us to understand the complex ecosystems that sustain us.
Elizabeth Turk
NEW YORK Hirschl & Adler Placed in translucent Plexiglas boxes, the three-dimensional furrows are galvanized with the whispers of an otherworldly, impenetrable language, to be navigated without literacy or understanding.
Michael Richards
NEW YORK Bronx Museum of the Arts As “Art You Down?” makes clear, Michael Richards, who died in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, was an artist ahead of his time. He focused his practice on Black identity and social injustice, often using casts of his own body to invest the work with personal and political meaning.
Jeanne Silverthorne
NEW YORK Marc Straus This small, intimate show, featuring 11 cast, monochromatic rubber objects ranging in height from 10 to 75 inches, is conceptually divided between works that are simultaneously realistic and abstract and those that are completely figurative and, in a wizardly way, uncannily lifelike.
Martin Puryear
NEW WINDSOR, NEW YORK Storm King Art Center Among the highlights of the exhibition is the earliest maquette that Puryear completed for Lookout; dating to 2016, the model is rendered in wood, the medium of his best-known public works.
Francesca DiMattio
LONDON Pippy Houldsworth Gallery Aside from the obvious Greek reference, the caryatids, despite their detail and ornament, also gesture, in some respects, to Eduardo Paolozzi’s collaged sculptures, especially from the 1950s, and Huma Bhabha’s much darker creations.
Dynamic Protagonists: A Conversation with Carola Zech
The Argentinian sculptor Carola Zech has spent over 25 years expanding the limits of sculpture, installation, and context. In her often site-specific works, she thinks about space and all its actors—especially the body of the viewer—as a nucleus that grows or contracts with the interaction of the parts.
Fluid Circulation: A Conversation with Holly Hendry
Systems, patterns, strata, bodies, and machines are among the preoccupations of British sculptor Holly Hendry. Turning things inside out and breaking their inner workings down into individual, often corporeal, parts, she reveals boundaries that are often more porous and permeable than we might imagine.
