LONDON Annely Juda Fine Art On the occasion of a previous exhibition at Annely Juda, in 1998, Ackling explained that the works don’t stand for anything. Rather, he said they stood beside him.
BGL: When Art Feels Free
For 25 years, the Québec City-based collective BGL (Jasmin Bilodeau, Sébastien Giguère, and Nicolas Laverdière) was a dynamic force in the Canadian art scene, exhibiting widely in the artists’ home province, as well as across the country and in Europe.
“Hurly-burly”: Phyllida Barlow, Rachel Whiteread, Alison Wilding
PARIS Gagosian Karsten Schubert, Wilding’s late gallerist, affectionately dubbed the trio of English artists “the three witches,” and this exhibition fittingly recalls the tumultuous “hurly-burly” they navigated during what was, back in the day, a particularly capricious and fickle male-dominated art world.
Healing Instruments: A Conversation with Guadalupe Maravilla
New York-based Guadalupe Maravilla left his homeland as a young boy during the height of El Salvador’s civil war. That traumatic past and a more recent bout with cancer have directed the course of his life and work.
Spencer Finch: Seeing and Knowing
Spencer Finch is interested in shifting light, both as a subject and as an artistic method. He is fascinated with changes in light at different times of the day and year, from one location to another, and with how light shifts as it is refracted through atmosphere, clouds, and windows, or reflected in different surfaces.
Markus Copper
HELSINKI Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma Informed by personal experience, an interest in performance art, and tragic events, these visually compelling works can physically affect the body and veer into thematic territory that some viewers and critics have found shocking.
Love and Spirits: A Conversation with Anne Samat
Anne Samat creates brilliantly colorful totemic sculptures using humble everyday materials. Deeply informed by Malaysian culture, her work combines traditional Pua Kumbu weaving, which she studied at the Mara Institute of Technology in Malaysia, with familiar objects taken from modern life such as gardening and kitchen utensils, plastic ornaments, and hardware.
Cerith Wyn Evans
LLANDUDNO, WALES Mostyn Evans’s neon sculptures at Mostyn are, as he has described it, lit with “pale dispassion.” They do not force themselves on the viewer, but act tenderly in their relationships.
“Nothing is Forever: Rethinking Sculpture in Singapore”
SINGAPORE National Gallery Singapore With more than 70 works from the 19th century to the present, the exhibition challenges prevailing aesthetic norms, serving to redefine sculpture’s “object status,” just as the works themselves redefine structure, form, material, and production.
Una Reflexión sobre la Metamorfosis del Estado de las Cosas: Una Conversación con Cecilia Nigro
Inicialmente con estudios en el campo de las relaciones publicas (UADE, Buenos Aires), la artista Cecilia Nigro se incorpora al mundo de las artes pláticas a través de la cerámica.
