“The original Confederate Flag of Truce was divided and divided and divided again. It got deconstructed, and here we have the effort of reconstructing it, of putting it back into the world, in as many different ways as we can.”
Estallar el espacio: Una Conversación con Valentina Chiappetta
Artista multidisciplinaria argentina, Valentina Chiappetta produce una obra que dialoga directamente con el espacio que la contiene: lo invade, lo cuestiona y se vale de las instalaciones como medio expresivo para materializar el quiebre de ese mismo espacio.
Latitude to Comment and Play: A Conversation with Mags Harries and Lajos Héder
Mags Harries was born in Wales, graduated from the Leicester College of Art and Design, received her MFA at Southern Illinois University, and teaches at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She is a multimedia artist who uses found objects, drawing, photography, performance, new technology, and 3D printing to fabricate visually
Must-See Sculpture Park Shows: Part 2
A round-up of the best sculpture park and garden exhibitions of the season, continued.
Jannis Kounellis
NEW YORK Gavin Brown’s enterprise “I consider myself a silent poet, a blind painter, and a deaf musician,” Jannis Kounellis once said. Such knotty contradictions were a through-line in the Arte Povera pioneer’s work, as a recent show of 20 sculptural assemblages, dating from 1969 through 2016, recently made clear.
Visceral Science: A Conversation with Ruth Beer
The cross-disciplinary, installation-based projects of Vancouver artist Ruth Beer form intricate woven narratives, blending stories, histories, and information related to the specifics of climate change in Northern Canada. Collaboration and innovative thinking lie at the heart of her approach, which finds its most ambitious expression to date in two multi-part projects sponsored by the Social
In Public and In Color: A Conversation with Leonardo Drew
Drew recently unveiled City in the Grass, a monumental commission for Madison Square Park in New York City, which remains on view through December 15, 2019. An eponymously titled solo show at his New York gallery, Galerie Lelong & Co., is on view through August 2.
Video: Nancy Rubins at Ruby City
Nancy Rubins’s sculpture 5,000 lbs. of Sonny’s Airplane Parts, Linda’s Place, and 550 lbs. of Tire-Wire (1997) was recently installed on the campus of Ruby City, San Antonio, Texas.
Traces of Probable Loss: A Conversation with Shinji Turner-Yamamoto
Shinji Turner-Yamamoto’s sculptural and photographic installations resonate with a sense of stillness, presence, and spirituality. Visiting locations with personal meaning—historic and sacred sites from Cincinnati to Jaipur and remote wilderness outposts in Ireland, Switzerland, and the Pacific Northwest—he intuitively chooses his materials.
Martin Boyce
ISLE OF BUTE, SCOTLAND Mount Stuart An Inn For Phantoms Of The Outside And In borrows its title from a line in Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Reverie (1960): “Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms.” Boyce was also inspired by hearing about a long-gone tennis court elsewhere on the grounds.
