There is a place even more exotic than the Museo do Oriente in Alcântara do Mar (Alcântara of the Sea), on the waterfront near central Lisbon, Portugal. It is the Unidade Infinita (Infinite Unit), the art studio of Joana Vasconcelos on the Tagus River immediately behind the museum.
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Yoshihiro Suda: Carving Out a Distinctive Place
Was it a trick on the audience for Yoshihiro Suda to open his second American museum solo, at Honolulu’s Contemporary Museum in 2009, with a space that seemed completely empty? You might have thought that you’d stumbled into a gallery closed for installation, except that there was no equipment sitting around, the floor was clean,
The Site Generates the Sculpture: A Conversation with Haesim Kim
Haesim Kim is one of Korea’s more adventurous sculptors. Having studied at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, she went on to the Chelsea College of Art & Design in London in 1999. Kim’s involvement with the art/nature group Yatoo and its earlier manifestation, known as the Four Seasons, led to some very innovative sculpture and performance
Struggling for Centimeters: A Conversation with Christiane Löhr
The organic element in Christiane Löhr’s sculptures first captures the viewer’s attention. All of her constructions are made of seeds, stalks, and horse and dog hair, stuck to each other or directly nailed to the wall or support pedestal.
Ping-Yu Pan
Taipei Taipei Fine Arts Museum “Eternal Nature,” a solo show of installations by Taiwanese artist Ping-Yu Pan, featured works from the last nine years, including examples from several different series. Shell imagery dominated with nine sculptures from Pan’s “Shell” series (2003-09).
Bernie Fink
Western Galilee, Israel The Open Museum: Omer Industrial Park For several decades, Bernie Fink was associated with a group of “Galilean” sculptors working in the north of Israel, all of them using basalt and materials found in nature to produce constructions suggestive of shrines, sundials, or archaic agricultural tools…see the full review in April’s magazine.
Gérard Quenum
London October Gallery At first it was the eyes. The hypnotic white orbs of Gérard Quenum’s charred, voodoo-tinged L’Ange (Angel, 2008) drew me into his recent exhibition—and into a multi-layered collection of powerful sculptural statements…see the full review in April’s magazine.
Annette Messager
London The Hayward The watchful eyes of My Trophies, proliferating London Underground posters, announced the opening of Annette Messager’s first U.K. retrospective. Documenting the evolution of her work over the last four decades, from the intimate pieces of the 1970s to recent large-scale…see the full review in April’s magazine.
Gareth Lichty
Cambridge, Ontario Cambridge Galleries Trained as a sculptor, Gareth Lichty weaves. Range, the single installation making up his recent exhibition, consists of one enormous weaving—shown in three separate sections—that weighs in at over 2,200 pounds.
“Light as Air”
Houston Discovery Green Discovery Green, located on 12 acres in downtown Houston, is Space City’s newest venue for outdoor public art. Its recent exhibition, “Light as Air,” was organized by Sara Kellner, a Houston-based independent curator, and featured…see the full review in April’s magazine.
