Beaches, vineyards, historic cities, and exceptional food, not to mention the Pyrenees and French Alps—the South of France certainly has no shortage of draws. Perhaps less known, however, are the region’s exceptional opportunities to experience contemporary art, much of it outdoors.
El llamado de la tierra: Una Conversación con Teresa Pereda
Licenciada en Historia de las Artes (UBA), investigadora y curadora, la artista Teresa Pereda se focaliza en la etnografía indígena como parte de los procesos de mestizaje y re-etnización vigentes en suelo americano.
Jan Lütjohann
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.
