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.
Armando Guadalupe Cortés
BROOKLYN Smack Mellon Cortés’s work renders parrots not only as metaphors for migration and adaptability, but also as proxies for human connection.
Shared Landscapes: A Conversation with Sarah Crowner
Etel Adnan’s large-scale ceramic mural Untitled (2023) debuted alongside an extensive presentation of her work in the solo exhibition “Painting into Space” (2023–24) at The Bass Museum in Miami. The spectacular work, created posthumously from a 2020 drawing, features vibrant geometric fields of color.
Irma Hünerfauth
LONDON Arcadia Missa While Hünerfauth struggled with the social and political conditions of post-Nazi Germany, she also attempted to understand rising pressures on perception, community, and nature in the face of technological advancement.
Proving a Different Rule: A Conversation with Jesse Darling
Jesse Darling, recently returned to the U.K. after living in Berlin and now teaching at Oxford’s Ruskin School of Art, uses unorthodox combinations of everyday materials and found objects to endow his assemblages and installations with potent lyricism and sociopolitical critique.
Organic Formations: A Conversation with Ángel Bados
Combining materials that range from cardboard and textiles to bronze and found objects, Ángel Bados’s sculptures produce fascinating contrasts of form, color, texture, and mood. An artist and educator who began his career in the 1970s working in installation art, Bados changed direction in 1983 after moving to Bilbao, where he played a key role
Esculturas pictóricas: Una Conversación con Mondongo
Mondongo se presenta como un grupo de artistas argentinos que trabajan colectivamente desde 1999, intentando desenfocar la noción de autoría. De la mano de Juliana Laffitte y Manuel Mendanha, desarrollan series de pinturas en alto relieve donde se abordan temas como el poder, el trabajo, la economía, la sexualidad, a través del uso de materialidades
Disparate Realities: A Conversation with Monira Al Qadiri
By combining personal experience, perspectives on the history and culture of the Persian Gulf region, and investigations into the many tentacles of the petrochemical industry, Berlin-based Kuwaiti artist Monira Al Qadiri produces works that impel us to contend with our ongoing relationship to and dependence on crude oil.
