OXFORD, U.K. Modern Art Oxford The vulnerability of the bodies suggested in the sculptures is, at times, almost too much to bear, but there are one or two lighter moments amid the seriousness.
Everything in Repetition: A Conversation with Noe Aoki
Japanese sculptor Noe Aoki has used iron as her primary material since the 1980s, attracted by its physical properties as well as its symbolic associations and role in human history. Composed of rings and lines, her work develops from a repeated process of cutting and welding industrial iron sheets.
Phyllida Barlow
LOS ANGELES Hauser & Wirth Every view of Phyllida Barlow’s current exhibition takes on a filmic quality—the work seems to shift, to be in the process of constantly transferring weight.
Activating the Void: A Conversation with Naama Tsabar
Naama Tsabar stands still, though not passive, in her signature black jeans, black shirt, and red lipstick, a participant in and creator of Perimeters, her latest performance project.
The Artist as Caretaker: A Conversation with Leone Contini
In Leone Contini’s performative sculptures and installations, the artist also acts as farmer and caregiver, tending living works that require skill and attention to survive.
The Heart of Matter: A Conversation with Maud Cotter
Maud Cotter, one of Ireland’s most inventive artists, has almost four decades of work behind her, and she continues to change while still remaining, essentially, herself.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
GRIMBERGEN, BELGIUM CC Strombeek Rirkrit Tiravanija’s “Another Sunny Afternoon” gives the word “free” a new currency. It appears in the image on the original exhibition flyer and emblazons every T-shirt coming out of the show’s screen printing studio.
Michael Murrell: A Life Lived in Art
Murrell’s sculptures—in bone, wood, iron, resin, and stone, handled with consummate skill and a deep respect for the material—hang from the ceiling, float above the honeyed maple floor, and repose on the floor, arranged in relationships that may seem random at first glance, though they are anything but.
Tomás Saraceno
NEW YORK The Shed These innovative works formed in tandem with energies outside humanmade culture act as a corrective for our obsession with ourselves.
Wanxin Zhang
SAN FRANCISCO Catharine Clark Gallery While figuration still dominates Zhang’s approach to ceramic sculpture, there is also a shift toward abstraction, both in his handling of the material and in the objects themselves.
