If Eva Hesse’s 19 cylinders installed at the new MoMA represent an esoteric insertion of the individualism and humanism missing from Minimalism, then Petah Coyne’s 1.7-year retrospective is an all-out shout….see the full feature in September’s magazine.
Great Places to Take a Date: A Conversation with Sue de Beer
Brooklyn-based Sue de Beer lures audiences into her disquieting sculptural constructions with blood-and-heartache-filled films. de Beer’s installations pump…see the full feature in September’s magazine.
Accumulated Vision: A Conversation with Barry Le Va
Since the late 1960s, Barry Le Va has used broken grass, bail bearings, powdered meat creavers, felt, chark, cast concrete, paper towers, and assorted other materials to make his enigmatic sculptures….see the full feature in September’s magazine.
Balancing Act: A Conversation with Julian Opie
Julian Opie’s works—die-cut colored vinyl shapes reading as interactions between painting and sculpture, video works of pictographic reductions, and landscapes imbued with nominal, almost anodyne forms—have often been described as generic and benign fabrications. On an initial reading, anonymity, neutrality, and synthesized systems are Opie’s elements.
Marc Quinn
New York Mounted on white plinths of differing…see the full review in September’s magazine.
The DeCordova Annual Exhibition
Lincoln, Massachusetts Technological art showed a new face…see the full review in September’s magazine.
Un Intervista con Maurizio Cattelan
Untitled, 2004. Mixed media, life-size. Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery, NY Andrea Bellini: Maurizio, intervistarti non è la cosa più facile al mondo.. Maurizio Cattelan: E allora non farlo. Potremmo andare a prendere un caffé. AB: Si, magari più tardi.
Rodney Graham
Vancouver, Canada Rodney Graham’s mid-career retrospective…see the full review in July/August’s magazine.