Gabriel Baggio, licenciado en Artes Visuales por la Universidad Nacional de las Artes—donde también es profesor—y director de la Licenciatura en Prácticas Artísticas Contemporáneas de la Universidad Nacional de San Martín, hace una lectura del mundo que habitamos desde el lenguaje performático como herramienta para poner al cuerpo en el centro de la actividad creativa,
From the Underworld to the Sky: A Conversation with Joan Danziger
Though Joan Danziger’s imagery gestures toward Surrealism, her sculpture resists classification. Her visual language is distinctly her own, drawn from observation, dreams, and the intuitive relationship between matter and fantasy. Over the course of more than 60 years, she has constructed not just forms, but an entire cosmology, one in which imagination serves as the
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LOS ANGELES The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and The Brick Kara Walker, discussing her work with Hamza Walker last year, asked, “Where does it begin to take on a new life that embodies this question of its use value as a monument, as a holder of White Supremacist desire, as a relic of the Lost Cause? It’s holding all of these ideas that don’t work in the republic that we live in.”
Vulnerability Hangover: A Conversation with Thomas Houseago
There are moments in art when the creative act feels inseparable from survival, a source of sustenance as much as vision. An acute tension between fracture and form, between vulnerability and vigor, runs through the work of Thomas Houseago.
Object Lessons: Pat Oleszko
I created Nora’s Ark: Pa’t Too as a performantz based on the mythic tale of The Flood, with obtuse scrambling of facts and frictions, props and costumes of biblical proportions, and some rigorous puntification, all rendered into a contemporary whorl-d.
Cal Lane
CAMBRIDGE, ONTARIO, CANADA Cambridge Art Galleries So, if Lane’s work has sundered the claims of the utile, does it represent a frontal attack on the lineage of the Duchampian readymade? Think about it: these pieces have, as their origins, objects that might have been used on a daily basis with nary a second thought.
Phillip Lai
BRISTOL, U.K. Spike Island Lai’s quotidian forms—bowls, basins, trays—signify sustenance and care but are emptied of any metaphorical intent.
Sensory Curiosity: A Conversation with Julia Padilla
Buenos Aires-based Julia Padilla uses sculpture, installation, and performance to rethink the transformative potential of life and matter. Constantly exploring new territories, she sets the organic in dialogue with the artificial, juxtaposing unconscious creativity with reason to produce subtly unsettling hybrid forms that question traditional perspectives on the body, space, and perception while imagining new ways
Anila Quayyum Agha
SEATTLE Asian Art Museum By re-creating patterns and designs found in South Asian shrines, tombs, mosques, and palaces and literally projecting them onto viewers, Agha democratizes motifs that have often been employed in spaces marked by gendered and class-based divisions—arguably more in the spirit of Islam’s original intent than what it has become.
