NEW YORK David Zwirner “Island,” the title of Japanese sculptor Yutaka Sone’s recent show, seemed to refer to the remarkable Little Manhattan (2007–09), a marble sculpture of New York City’s most famous borough.
Nina Levy: Compelling Discomfort
The exhibition “Related Forms” acted as a mini-retrospective for Nina Levy, displaying sculptures and photographs from 1999 to 2011. Her controversial figurative works, displayed to great advantage in the long, open space of Salamatina Gallery (unexpectedly set in a former Gap store in an upscale shopping mall in Manhasset, New York), caused a stir among
Li Wei: Pursuing Figuration in the 21st Century
Despite the presence of an avant-garde since the 1980s, figurative art remains important in China. This is not to say that Chinese culture rejects abstraction; instead, its preference for realist art is based on centuries of traditional painting focused on the landscape, which many scholars regard as its highest achievement.
Art Hong Kong 11
HONG KONG Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre If there was one word to describe the fourth edition of Art Hong Kong (also known as Art HK 11), it would be “buzzing.”
Marisa Merz
NEW YORK Barbara Gladstone Gallery Marisa Merz, one of Arte Povera’s band of stellar sculptors (and the widow of Mario Merz, who also belonged to the group), looks to the attractions of industrial materials.
Jinny Yu
OTTAWA Patrick Mikhail Gallery Nominally a painter, Jinny Yu explored materiality in her “Latest from New York” exhibition, which included sculpted aluminum and oil pieces. She sees herself at the interstices of identity—of Korean birth, living in Ottawa, practicing in New York, Italy, Montreal, and elsewhere.
Shirazeh Houshiary
LONDON Lisson Gallery Shirazeh Houshiary’s “No Boundary Condition” presented itself as an exhibition of paradoxes—paintings that felt three-dimensional, manmade objects that felt organic, chaotic sculptural compositions that somehow seemed simple.
Camilo Guinot: Exacting Immateriality
Camilo Guinot’s work is notable for its sensitivity and meticulousness. The Argentinian artist works on each piece like a surgeon. He approaches everything in his environment as a potential medium for expression, discrediting no technique or material as he experiments with installation, sculpture, drawing, photography, and performance.
Karl Burke
LEITRIM, IRELAND Leitrim Sculpture Centre When confronting a scientific problem, simplification yields the most suitable basis from which to carry out a logical and deductive analysis. This direction of thought is useful in that it brings the world and its phenomena toward the mind, breaking the complex into crude, static moments that can then be analyzed.
Rome Biennale
ROME International Exhibition of Sculpture Billed as the first sculpture biennial in Rome, the original and very ambitious plan was to place contemporary artworks in many of the piazzas of a city celebrated for piazzas—if not for contemporary art (although that might change now with MACRO, MAXXI, and Gagosian).
