LONDON Barbican Hovering somewhere between human and non-human, ancient and modern, the familiar and the strange, these are anti-monuments, cast in bronze from carved cork and skull fragments, their surfaces gouged and incised.
Folkert de Jong and Tild Greene
AMSTERDAM Projectspace 38/40 In some instances, we can recognize parts from everyday objects, while in others, we might incidentally mistake the sculptures for exposed MEP (mechanical, electrical, or plumbing systems) belonging to the site. The works clearly complement each other: the more subtle and abstract presence of Greene’s sculptures offsets the heavier and iconic presence of de Jong’s work.
Interstitial Existence: A Conversation with Kishio Suga
For six decades, Kishio Suga has explored the question of whether intentions adhere to things. One of Japan’s most important artists and a key figure in the Mono-ha movement, he began his career in the late 1960s, using natural and industrial materials to create temporary installations that aimed to show “the reality of mono (things/materials) and the jōkyō (situation) that holds them together.”
Señalamientos: Una Conversación con Voluspa Jarpa
Oriunda de Rancagua, Chile, la artista multidisciplinaria Voluspa Jarpa, Docente Universidad Católica de Chile y con una vasta formación no solamente en el campo del arte sino en todas las áreas que comprometen, cultural y políticamente, el desarrollo y comprensión de los movimientos sociales, la historia y su representación.
Positive Negatives: A Conversation with Roland Persson
The work of Swedish artist Roland Persson manifests a profoundly complex verisimilitude. This applies not only to the nature of his subject matter, which ranges from dreams and personal experience to considerations of the human condition, our relationship to nature, and the vagaries of urban life, but also to form and content, which are governed by his scientific attention to detail, technical skill, material choices, and psychological approach.
Josh Faught
SEATTLE Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington Proceeding from conceptual art’s loaded objects, Faught has crammed and jammed pockets and slits within the woven fabric with archival queer history publications, relics, and trivia.
Constant Negotiation: A Conversation with Anya Gallaccio
Anya Gallaccio’s sculptures and installations encourage deep engagement with the natural world and its cycles of growth and decay. Since the 1990s, she has been using organic materials, including apples, flowers, trees, chocolate, wax, ice, and chalk, that undergo radical transformation during the lifetime of the work.
No Clear Boundaries: A Conversation with Christopher McNulty
Recipient of the 2024 Educator Award For 25 years, Christopher McNulty, director and professor in the School of Art at the University of Tennessee, has examined the fragile equilibrium between humans and their surroundings.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
LONDON Victoria Miro The intellectual weight behind the project is considerable but made infinitely pleasurable by the substance and depth of Finlay’s endeavor as a sculptor of gardens, poems, and fragments and by his use of wit and play.
David Hammons
LOS ANGELES Hauser and Wirth While both iterations have followed immense tragedy—9/11 and then the Palisades and Eaton fires—what Hammons attunes us to is not the instance of tragedy itself, but the infinitely combinatory and socially contingent conditions that inform the spaces we occupy.
