DUNDEE, U.K. The McManus Shaw’s large-scale sculptural forms, which take the whale’s tiny inner-ear bones as their point of reference, are made from a clay body that incorporates whale bone ash, processed much like the cow bones that have been used in bone china for centuries.
Ro Robertson
SUNDERLAND, U.K. Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art In such interstitial spaces—temporarily land and temporarily water—Robertson has found a natural corollary for their sense of self, an identity in similar motion, once condemned as being against nature.
Alberto Giacometti and Mona Hatoum
LONDON Barbican Hatoum’s deployment of geometry and abstraction transcends the specific, yet the threat of violence is always close at hand.
Emotional Vestiges: A Conversation with Jessica Trosman
Buenos Aires-based Jessica Trosman began her career in fashion design, launching the brand Trosmanchurba with Martín Churba in 1997 and her eponymous brand in 2002. Her fashion practice took her around the world, especially Japan, and work in her textile laboratory generated prestigious collaborations with haute couture houses such as Chanel and Rick Owens.
Jessi Reaves
MINNEAPOLIS Walker Art Center Much of the material in these works, including cotton batting, velvet, sewing pins, mink fur, and hangers, points to classic markers of the domestic feminine. But Reaves’s approach to destruction and repurposing does not completely refute these themes and tropes; instead, it feels more like an acknowledgement and remixing.
Transitando paisajes absurdos: Una Conversación con Eliana Heredia
La artista visual Eliana Heredia, oriunda de Buenos Aires, cursó estudios en el Instituto Universitario Nacional de Arte (IUNA) y se graduó como Profesora Nacional de Escultura en el año 2000. Estudió en la Universität der Künste en Berlín (UDK), donde obtuvo en el año 2011 un máster en Artes.
Passing Through: A Conversation with Kateřina Vincourová
“Skin Care,” Kateřina Vincourová’s current exhibition at Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague, features recent works along with new site-specific installations. As the Czech artist explains, “I build ‘cages’ and try to capture echoes of my thoughts in them.”
Max Hooper Schneider
NEW YORK 125 Newbury Fusing nature and artifice while highlighting metamorphosis, conversion, and collaborative practice, these sculptures recall Hieronymus Bosch’s fantastic hybrid figures and exploration of alchemy and science, philosophy and religious belief.
Cosima von Bonin
LONDON Raven Row von Bonin’s installations, which combine found objects and handmade elements, retain a deliberate looseness aligned with her Cologne milieu of the 1990s—an anti-heroic sensibility that dismantles the cult of authorship, authenticity, and artistic genius.
