The human hand’s ability to touch, display, gesture, and manipulate materials forms the core of Coming to Grips, Juan Ortiz-Apuy’s current installation at YYZ Artists’ Outlet in Toronto.
Fragile Times: A Conversation with Nataliya Zuban
Though Nataliya Zuban is steeped in the traditional ceramic production of her native town of Opishnia (known as the ceramic capital of Ukraine), she applies her deep understanding of material and process in strikingly unconventional ways as a window into natural processes.
Daphne Wright
OXFORD, U.K. Ashmolean Museum In Wright’s colorless, spectral ensembles, each object has an equal status within the ritual of daily life. Her sons are no more significant than the sofa and floor that support them; the food in the fridge, though indicative of essential sustenance, of no higher value than the unit that contains it.
Rebellious Subjects: A Conversation with Reza Aramesh
Tehran-born, London-based Reza Aramesh describes his choice of subject matter as “necessary for the moment we are in.” Neither protest not political crusade, his figures of anonymous men explore violence in its most banal and insidious forms.
Berenice Olmedo
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA BAMPFA Using what she describes as discarded devices intended for replacement, correction, and support as a primary material, Olmedo constructs hauntingly beautiful, defiantly non-normative figurative sculptures.
Solange Pessoa
GLASGOW Tramway Pessoa’s choice of “Pilgrim Fields” as the exhibition title beautifully captured the feeling of earthy spirituality encapsulated by this low-lying sculptural landscape, while at the same time evoking journeys and the interconnectedness of our world.
Let It Go: A Conversation with Ryan Schneider
Ryan Schneider, who until recently was best known for his heavily built-up paintings, takes almost the opposite approach to sculpture, following Constantin Brancusi who argued that “one should know how to dig out the being that is within matter.”
Klára Hosnedlová
BERLIN Hamburger Bahnhof Here, immersed deep within Hosnedlová’s sculptural imagination, and despite the dystopian undertones, the environment feels safe enough, and choice still operative.
Cuestión de piel: Una Conversación con Nadia Guthmann
Nadia Guthmann, artista visual y doctora en biología, establece una conexión entre ambos campos, haciendo que los fundamentos sensibles y racionales se entrelacen orgánicamente. Su producción se compone mayoritariamente de esculturas en mallas de metal y ocasionalmente realiza con ellas instalaciones con o sin movimiento, proyectando las sombras en pantallas traslúcidas.
Ann Hamilton
SALTAIRE, U.K. Salts Mill The immensity should, perhaps, be overwhelming, or difficult to deal with, but it is not. Viewers effortlessly enter the fabric of the work, becoming part of its subtle interweaving of time, people, and space, as mind and body are touched by sound, color, and texture.
