The frenzy of construction in a rebuilding Berlin is also reflected in the number and diversity of events, artists, and venues in the city’s booming art scene…see the full review in April’s magazine.
Duane Paxson
Forest Dance Ford Gallery, Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti, MI Pliant and spirited, the sculptures of “Forest Dance” enliven the ambient space. Without hands and with featureless spheres or branches for heads, those on the floor pivot like dancers.
Christo & Jeanne-Claude
Palazzo Bricherasio and Fondation Beveler Turin, Italy Basel, Switzerland Christo and Jeanne-Glaude, Wrapped Trees, 1998. View of site-specific work in Basel After a 25-year absence, Christo and Jeanne-Claude have returned to ltaly. Their work first appeared here in 1963, when Christo had a solo exhibition at Gallerie Le Noci in Milan.
Julie Allen
Joseph Hellman Gallery New York For Julie Alien, it’s back to basics. ln her case, the basics take the form of women’s underwear-bras, panties, thongs, camisoles, a bustier-garments that shape a woman’s body into the embodiment of desire and the purses and handbags that any proper young lady would not leave home without.
James Carl
White Walls, 1998. Corrugated plastic, each unit approximately 10 x 23 in. diameter. The expository tires piled on top of each other in James Carl’s latest show at Galerie Clark look natural but are not. Each has been handcrafted out of coroplast, a synthetic material, and the seemingly accidental nature of their presentation is actually
In Pursuit of Memory: Berlin, Bamberg, and the Specter of History
Berlin is a primary focus of current reconsiderations of cultural memory, political ideology, public commemoration, and sculptural possibilities…see the full review in April’s magazine.
Kiki Smith
The Mattress Factory and the Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh Kiki Smith has become one of the most famous female artists of her generation. While a wide range of feminist concerns informed Smith’s earlier work, she never referenced a specific issue or theory.
Art & Ecology: Three Canadian Sculptors
Irene F. Wittome, Musée des Traces, 1989. Mixed media, room-size installation. “Do you ever wonder what happens to those little pieces of soap left over when you leave your room?” asks a voice on a Toronto hotel’s closed-circuit television channel.
Ann Hamilton
the body and the object: Ann Hamilton 1984-1996 Ann Hamilton: woven Miami Art Museum Ann Hamilton, untitled (privation and excess), 1989. View of installation. The touring exhibition “the body and the object: Ann Hamilton 1984-1996,” organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, happily allows for fragmentary
Anne Baxter
Robert Berman Gallery Santa Monica, CA Anne Baxter’s precise and provocative wire-mesh sculptures parody the structures of art and life. This young American, who emerged on the Parisian art scene in 1990, recently presented some 20 new works in Santa Monica that suggest a familiarity with the devilish complexities of Derridian philosophy… See the print
