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).
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.
