“The setting of the installation plays out the falseness and futility in the objects, the artificial. Our engagement with the world of objects is very connected to our own mortality. In our making and gathering of objects, there is a sense of futility.
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Eve Ingalls
NEW YORKSOHO20 Chelsea Eve Ingalls works out of a former chicken coop in the Sourland Mountains of New Jersey, with a vista that could be mistaken for Vermont, but thoughts of oil spills, hurricanes, tsunamis, and other forms of environmental destruction are never far from her mind. Human manipulation may be destroying the earth, but she finds beauty in bringing it to the forefront of our attention.
Jitish Kallat
NEW DELHI Nature Morte Gallery Jitish Kallat draws on the energy of Mumbai to narrate the city’s story while creating a thought-provoking oasis where one can ponder various aspects of urban life. The title of his recent show, “Chlorophyll Park,” pays homage to the green pigment found in plants.
Edgardo Madanes: Roads Created
Buenos Aires-based Edgardo Madanes studied at the National School of Fine Arts Prilidiano Pueyrredon, taking such well-known artists as Nora Correa and Norberto Gomez as his mentors. Correa’s soft volumes, with their contrast between textile and sculpture, particularly captured Madanes’s attention, as did Gomez’s perfect balance between concept and passion.
Spencer Finch
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design In homage to Monet, Spencer Finch titled his recent exhibition “Painting Air.” A quotation from the Impressionist painter, the phrase also riffs on the familiar description of Impressionism as “painting light,” though “sculpting” air might have been more accurate in Finch’s case.
Real and Imagined Movement: Robert Mangold
Denver sculptor Robert Mangold considers himself to be a “realist,” but his definition of the term is fairly idiosyncratic considering his abstract and non-objective works. For Mangold, who avoids even a whiff of representational imagery in his pieces, being a “realist” means that he’s interested in physical reality—in real gravity, in real movement, and in
Claire Ashley
DALLAS H. Paxton Moore Fine Art Gallery, El Centro College Claire Ashley’s pneumatic objects are singular yet referential. Each giant, pillowy creature has a presence so unique it is easy to overlook the heterogeneous array of influences. Clown sports multi-colored horns and one leg that sits out lazily in front of its trunk. The center of its cutely bloated, pastel pink belly is marked by a dripping bull’s eye—reminiscent of both a Jasper Johns painting and an assassinated Michelin Man.
Out of the Ordinary: A Conversation with Kaarina Kaikkonen
Kaarina Kaikkonen, one of Finland’s leading artists, first showed her work at Art Basel Miami Beach in a 2004 exhibition curated by Julia P. Herzberg and Carol Damian. And It Was Empty—thousands of used men’s jackets arranged along a wall, somewhat reminiscent of the hanging jackets in Kaikkonen’s boat-shaped installation at the Havana Biennale earlier
Straight Into the Big: David Mach
No marble or bronze for sculptor David Mach. For over 35 years, he has been transforming bulk raw materials and what many consider junk or garbage—old tires, magazines, out-of-date telephone directories, empty bottles, Barbie dolls, postcards, coat hangers, and matches—into memorable, wacky, inventive, crowd-drawing public art.
Fred Sandback
NEW YORK David Zwirner When the Victorian poet Robert Browning coined the phrase “less is more” in a poem about the painter Andrea del Sarto, he could not have known how apt it would be in regard to the string sculptures of Fred Sandback. A stylistic colleague of the Minimalist sculptors of the 1960s and ’70s, Sandback evolved a language that made the most out of acrylic yarn, a highly humble material.
