Shilpa Gupta explains art as a means of shifting and reshaping reality, manipulating it to excavate and introduce new, very different perspectives that encourage us to rethink the patterns and possibilities shaping our lives. The visual, in her hands, becomes an antidote, an intellectual attack even, on the inertia of acceptance and complacency.
Object Lessons: Yto Barrada
It all started with the holes in the wall. The courtyard walls at MoMA PS1 are cement, with small, structural holes for the wind to come through. And you can peek through them.
Una aventura energética: Una Conversación con Alicia Herrero
Dueña de una trayectoria destacable como artista plástica, la obra de Alicia Herrero se sostuvo vigente por décadas combinando el abordaje material y estético de distintos enfoques artísticos, con una profunda reflexión sobre temáticas de índole social y cultural.
Robin Frohardt
NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS MASS MoCA The cooler offers skim bag milk to pour over Caps ’n Such cereal topped with blue bag berries. Delight is subsumed by acute nausea. This grotesque place has tricked us into hungering for plastic.
The Truth of Everydayness: A Conversation with Claire Barclay
Claire Barclay approaches her installation-based work with a rigorous and playful eye. Looking askance at things, she turns quotidian objects into something else—useless, without any obvious function, but imbued with an emotive complexity that allows for physical and psychological effects just when we least expect them.
Daniel Giordano
GLENS FALLS, NEW YORK The Hyde Collection Storied objects—including family heirlooms, food, taxidermy, ceramic, trash, human hair, and the work of other artists, among other idiosyncratic treasures—form the basis of Giordano’s work.
Donald Moffett
ROCKLAND, MAINE Center for Maine Contemporary Art The exhibition title, “Nature Cult,” lays out the immense challenge that Moffett has set himself—the development of a new kind of visual language to deal specifically with the issue of climate catastrophe.
George Wyllie
GREENOCK, SCOTLAND The Wyllieum Wyllie described himself as a “scul?tor”—he had a thing about question marks—and believed that asking awkward questions about the world we live in was the artist’s role.
Boundary Crossing: A Conversation with Yinka Shonibare
“Suspended States,” Yinka Shonibare’s current show at the Serpentine and first solo exhibition in London in over 20 years, acts as a potent reminder of the legacies of colonial power, conflict, and displacement.
Cathy Wilkes
GLASGOW Hunterian Art Gallery Wilkes’s work looks beyond official validations of war, beyond the monumental and heroic. Instead, she scrutinizes the painful effects of sustained disorder and violent terror on ordinary, everyday lives.
