HELSINKI Galleria Myymälä2 Jan Lütjohann works wood. Using hand tools and pre-industrial techniques, he creates elements that seem rudimentary, reductive, even downright plain, from which he then forms sculptural installations that reveal constellations of ideas and references.
Colors in Motion: A Conversation with Daniel Buren
Comme tombées du ciel, les couleurs in situ et en mouvement (As if fallen from the sky, the colors in situ and in motion), Daniel Buren’s spectacular color and light intervention at the Liège-Guillemins train station in Belgium, takes a precise approach to the notion of “as-is,” minimally altering yet radically transforming what already exists.
Tarik Kiswanson
STOCKHOLM Bonniers Konsthall While these meditative works convey solitude, stasis, and detachment, they also—like life’s transitory stages—embody transformation.
Jonathan Michael Ray
BRUTON, SOMERSET, U.K. Bo Lee and Workman Ray’s practice involves a complex process of reinterpretation and amalgamation. In his works, found objects acquire new meanings that unify the secular and sacred, making them a particularly appropriate choice for this setting.
Soojin Kang
LONDON Gathering There is something otherworldly about Kang’s humanoid sculptures. Sentinels of time and space, they double as bearers of the unconscious, channeling the unexamined, the unseen, the unresolved and sparking a momentary meeting of minds that establishes a dialectic between Kang’s experience of making and our experience of looking.
Faith in Figures: A Conversation with Kira Freije
Kira Freije’s figures are emotive, seeming to yearn for human contact whether they stand alone or band together. They wear rudimentary clothing, and there is a palpable sense of movement in their almost choreographed positions, as they seem to stretch, bend, and beseech, perhaps even fly.
Don Porcaro
NEW YORK Westwood Gallery, NYC Stone’s materiality disallows ignorance of its history and import. Any artwork using its mass, even when small, conveys a message that droops slightly under its own gravitas.
Chryssa
NEW YORK Dia Chelsea Struck by New York’s seductively pulsing lights and flashing advertisements for everything from Admiral TVs to Pepsi, Chryssa seized on the potential of neon as a medium for art. The natural light of her native Greece was also etched in her memory, however, particularly the way that it bathed and warmed ancient sculpture and architecture.
Sound Has Form: A Conversation with Oliver Beer
Acoustic resonance—the production of sound through vibrations—is a key material in Oliver Beer’s eclectic practice. His sculptures, installations, and immersive performances release the resonant voices natural to every space, every hollow object.
Un espacio de indeterminación: Una Conversación con Diego Bianchi
Con una enorme trayectoria y reconocimiento nacional e internacional, el artista visual argentino, docente y curador Diego Bianchi se formó inicialmente como diseñador gráfico en la Universidad de Buenos Aires y hacia 2002 se involucra de lleno con la práctica artística realizando su primera exhibición individual.
