“you, your sun and shadow”

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA Anderson Gallery Almost as if curator Michael Jones McKean had assembled a collection of artifacts for private contemplation, “you, your sun and shadow” offered a meditation on the function of sculpture, implying that it provides opportunities to consider the relevance of subject/object relations in an everyday world.

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Joseph and John Dumbacher

WASHINGTON, DC Curator’s Office The title of a recent show by fraternal twins Joseph and John Dumbacher—“elsewhere: a call to the open road or an antidote to whatever”—offers a decided yes to both options. The focused selection of five sculptures and 10 drawings signals a breakthrough in their risk-taking while affirming that their works are anything but random.

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Kosyo Minchev

NEW YORK Stux Gallery Bulgarian-born Kosyo Minchev creates works that are incisive in their commentary, wit, material cognizance, and unpretentious formality. His sculptures reach out somewhere between aesthetics and politics, or, better put, they implant politics within aesthetics.

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Pablo Dompé

BUENOS AIRES Recoleta Cultural Center Pablo Dompé learned his craft while working with his sculptor father. The son of two artists—a sculptor and a painter—he ultimately discovered that sculpture was his language of expression. He is building an extraordinary personal aesthetic of the organic and the visceral, with prominent volumes that combine abstraction and subtle figuration while invading both public and private space.

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“Gestures: Intimate Friction”

PITTSBURGH Mattress Factory It was no surprise that “Gestures: Intimate Friction,” guest-curated by Mary-Lou Arscott, a British architect living in Pittsburgh, included architects and designers in addition to visual artists. In her statement, Arscott explains, “Our physical reality bumps up against us and then disappears from view…The process of creating the installations in this exhibition will be collapsing, constructive, and collaborative.”

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Miguel Angel Rios

DES MOINES, IOWA Des Moines Art Center The title of Miguel Angel Rios’s recent exhibition, “Walkabout,” suggests the idea of a spiritual quest through unknown terrain. Rios traverses multiple spiritual and physical landscapes as he transforms memories from his roots in Catamarca, a remote area of Northern Argentina, into videos, sound installations, sculptures, and drawings.

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Paris Triennale

PARIS Palais de Tokyo Not the Paris Triennale of yesteryear, Okwui Enwezor’s ambitious “Intense Proximity” was a post-identity, post-national exhibition that argued for a common visual language shared by contemporary artists the world over, all similarly preoccupied with the complexities of the globalized world.

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