Cristina Piffer’s works do not permit indifference. Small objects by this Argentinian artist can be just as impressive as her large-scale installations, with a formal elegance that captures the attention while moving viewers into a universe where life and death are locked in permanent tension.
Ajlan Gharem
VANCOUVER Vanier Park Six months after Ajlan Gharem’s Paradise Has Many Gates was unveiled in Vancouver’s beachfront Vanier Park, the little mosque made of chain link and steel pipe began to feel like part of the scenery.
“The Death of James Lee Byars”
VENICE Chiesa di Santa Maria della Visitazione The installation’s aesthetic appeal resonates universally with its emphasis on beauty and absence. For those familiar with Byars’s work, it furthers his legacy of conceptual vigor, exploring the unknown and unknowable.
Experience Transposed: A Conversation with Gianni Caravaggio
Gianni Caravaggio works with diverse materials, creating mysterious forms that aim to open the imagination. Born in Rocca San Giovanni (Chieti), Italy, in 1968, he soon moved with his family to Germany. He studied philosophy before moving back to Italy to attend the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, where he is currently a professor
Mirror Networks: A Conversation with Ellen Harvey
Born in Britain, Ellen Harvey lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been included in the Whitney Biennial and exhibited at numerous institutions, including the Barnes Foundation, the Corcoran Museum of Art, and the Bass Museum.
Fragilidades Aparentes: Una Conversación con Analia Hahn
La obra de Analia Hahn transita distintas materialidades: desde la aparente fragilidad de lo textil hasta la contundencia de los materiales industriales. Con temas claves en su producción artística tales como la incomunicabilidad, la soledad y la individualidad que lucha por sostener su identidad entre la “sociedad mundial,” la artista busca alimentar el plano de
Petah Coyne
NEW YORK Galerie Lelong & Co. Petah Coyne’s recent solo show in New York, after too long an absence, clearly demonstrated that she has lost none of her visual and narrative verve.
Cultivating Dualities: A Conversation with Li Hongwei
Working at the intersection of tradition and innovation, and of Eastern and Western aesthetics, Li Hongwei brings ceramic vessels into the realm of abstraction. By combining ceramic with stainless steel, he joins fragility to solidity. Before the beginning of history, the former medium transformed civilizations around the world, while the latter has ties to industry,
Jeffrey Gibson
CLINTON, NEW YORK Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College A series of helmets—arguably even more extravagantly decked out—similarly conjure references across cultures and chronologies, threading together the politics, economics, and socio-religious rituals of dress, adornment, pattern, and decoration. They, and the other works in “This Is the Day” (from a Biblical psalm, hymn, and synth-pop song), activate and amplify its jurisdiction and readings.
Claudia Wieser
LONDON London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE Materials and epochs collide and dissolve in “Shift,” which places the Modernist-inspired forms of Berlin-based Claudia Wieser in dialogue with ancient artifacts excavated from the ruins of a Roman temple from the third century AD.
