El arte nutrió la vida de Pablo Dompé desde sus inicios. Habiendo nacido en familia de artistas, su cotidianeidad estuvo atravesada por la dinámica del taller y los materiales de trabajo que atrajeron su inclinación natural por crear objetos, nutrir formas y complementar el trabajo de moldeado con el estudio de la música, el dibujo y la lectura.
Olga Jevrić
LONDON PEER
Bucking Soviet-style Socialist Realism, Jevrić created abstract structures consisting of bulky forms that seem to float in space, held by nails or metal rods, which serve both to support and to trap. These works made her a pioneer in Yugoslavia as she developed her own vocabulary through the juxtaposition of mass and void, solidity and weightlessness, lines and curves.
Bernar Venet
NEW YORK Kasmin
It’s vocabulary that reminds us how mathematics and philosophy like to orbit one another. Finite and infinite, rational and irrational, predictable and unpredictable, determinate and indeterminate—these are crucial complements to French conceptual artist Bernar Venet, who employs indeterminacy as both a mathematical concept and a philosophical guidepost.
Object Lessons: Mika Rottenberg
“The impetus for Spaghetti Blockchain came from looking at YouTube for endless hours. Also, I’ve been considering different definitions of materialism—as a philosophical term, what it means in capitalism, and how we are composed of matter.”
Medals of Honor
Sculpture portable enough to fit in the palm of your hand, inside a pocket, or tucked into a wallet can also be invested with enough narrative power to tell an epic story. The newly published catalogue, The Scher Collection of Commemorative Medals, proves that sculpture the size of a silver dollar can assume the presence of something monumental.
Ghost Stories: A Conversation with Michael Rakowitz
Over the course of six days in 2003 during the American invasion of Iraq, more than 3,000 artifacts on display at the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad were looted or destroyed. For Michael Rakowitz, an American artist of Jewish-Iraqi heritage, the desecration was personal, and it inspired an ambitious sculptural project.
The Importance of the Insignificant: A Conversation with Liliana Porter
“The formal solutions that I choose pretend to be coherent with the ideas that I propose. In an artwork, everything has meaning: scale, material, support, the space where things happen…In my work, the awareness of that mechanism is part of the content.”
Wangechi Mutu On Her New Fifth Avenue Façade Commission at The Met
“The idea of a hybrid for me represents human potential, super-human powers, and the feeling of being in transition as well as being alienated.”
Una Cronista Curiosa: Una Conversación con María Silvia Corcuera
María Silvia Corcuera habita la piel de una “artista fémina curiosa”—tal sus palabras—que va sumando experiencias y con cierta cuota lúdica aborda el terreno de lo popular latinoamericano y su transculturación.
Alexandra Fairweather on John Chamberlain’s “Baby Tycoons”
“Baby Tycoons,” an exhibition of John Chamberlain’s small, tabletop sculptures, is on view at Hauser & Wirth through October 19. The first exhibition of Chamberlain’s work since the gallery took over representation of the John Chamberlain Estate in May 2019, it is installed in the gallery’s 69th Street space.
