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).
Peru’s Contemporary Sculptors: Crafting New Social and Cultural Identities
Peru’s sculptors range broadly in ethnicity, processes, and materials, yet many share a keen awareness of their country’s cultural heritage. With a new president, a new culture minister, and surging tourism, Peru is still struggling to overcome its legacy of gang, cult, and government violence (an ongoing dilemma that resulted in more than 60,000 murders
Rae Bolotin
MOUNT TOMAH, AUSTRALIA Blue Mountains Botanic Garden Australian sculptor Rae Bolotin creates works characterized by seductive surfaces and the innovative use of line in space. Born in Tashkent in Uzbekistan, she took an electrical engineering degree and studied art.
Listening to Stones: A Conversation with Lika Mutal
Lika Mutal, an Israeli-born, New York-based artist, specializes in working across the interstices of art categories. Most often, her work has to do with photography and video, but her images also explore the boundaries of two-dimensional and three-dimensional form.
Green Magic of Recycling: Suzanne Morlock
An 80-foot-long train of knitted newspaper “glides” through the gallery space at the Central Museum of Textiles in tód´z, Poland. Its tangled, dynamic shape plays with air, light, and structural elements, winding around pillars and hovering just below the ceiling.
Takashi Murakami
PARIS Versailles Once again the battle to save classical French culture from the ugly claws of globalization has been making headlines in France.
Wee Hong Ling
SINGAPORE Sculpture Square A cat hides behind the china cabinet, and a dog sleeps under the studio bench where the artist works. The presence of these two pets in Wee Hong Ling’s “No Place Like Home,” albeit in the form of two-dimensional vinyl cutouts, may seem like a playful gesture; but they are essential to the décor that frames and contextualizes the ceramic works of this Singapore-born and New York-based artist.
Leandro Erlich
NEW YORK Sean Kelly Gallery In the exhibition “Two Different Tomorrows,” Argentinian conceptual sculptor Leandro Erlich addressed the problem of time that he encountered while traveling in Asia: he confused the tomorrow that followed his place of residence with the tomorrow of his gallery’s time zone.
Phillip Beesley
TORONTO Allen Lambert Galleria It was there for 10 days, and then it was gone—a site-specific piece for the Luminato Festival that expanded and enhanced an already spectacular locale, recalculating traditional notions of both art and architecture.
Working with the Wind: A Conversation with Tim Prentice
Tim Prentice is a kinetic sculptor whose works can be seen in many public buildings and corporate collections, including American Express, Bank of America, Citigroup, Mobil, AT&T, and Hewlett-Packard. He received a master’s degree in architecture from Yale in 1960 and founded the award-winning architectural firm of Prentice and Chan in 1965.
