New York Nohra Haime Gallery Hair is a loaded subject. Tied to gender, ethnicity, class, age, and health, it reveals identity. If we care enough about our hair—and provided that we have enough to make it signal all that we want it to—it can say a lot about who we are, where we come from,
Venice Ai Weiwei was a strong presence at the 55th Venice Biennale, all but dominating the collateral events. You could leave his exhibitions, but you couldn’t stop thinking about them. The German pavilion hosted Bang, a forest of 886 piled-up wooden stools.
Le François, Martinique Fondation Clément Approaching the Fondation Clément, one was struck by the incongruousness—or justice—of a contemporary Caribbean art exhibition at a former slave plantation. Yet with the first step into the foyer, the past ceased to matter.
Buenos Aires Praxis International Art Gallery “Art and Sustainability IV” curator Rodrigo Alonso selected his six artists based on their ability to create “metaphors to embrace the world.” The exhibition’s subtitle is extremely important, because as Alonso explains, “Unlike other professional spheres, such as architecture or design, art cannot easily contribute to the actual material
At first the vastness overwhelms; the colors, diversity, intricacy, and textures bedazzle. Only later does the realization set in that these fantastical crocheted coral reefs bear an urgent ecological message. Some are based on photographs, but most are pure imaginative improvisations.
Tony Matelli’s imperfect human figures and macabre self-portraits might be described as expressions of hyperrealistic angst. Over the past 15 years, he has reinterpreted the human condition through an interplay of humor and horror, a strategy best demonstrated in Total Torpor, Mad Malaise (2003).
Ganesh Gohain’s sculptures and paintings are very personal, very intense introspections on myth, memory, materiality, and metaphysics. Extremely deceptive with their minimal, simplified forms, these works offer complex ideations based on his life experiences and conceptual meditations.
New York Tenri Cultural Institute of New York Kathleen Elliot’s glass sculptures straddle the line between ritual and playfulness. Her work, which stems from a love of natural forms, explores how the wonders of nature, big and small, have an indisputable calming effect on us as we muddle through the distractions of daily life.
