July/August 1999
July/August 1999
Athena Tacha
Gainesville, FL University Gallery, University of Florida Athena Tacha’s Sealed Memories (to E.H.J.) was a site-specific installation that filled the entire gallery space of the University Gallery at the University of Florida. Viewers entered the darkened gallery and progressed towards the dimly lit portal of a large enclosed structure, which formed an uncommon maze through
Dispatch: “Artranspennine98”
England Ulrich Ruckriem, Untitled, 1998. Stone, 10 pieces in all. Two views of site-specific project. Artranspennine98 was a ragbag of roughly 40 projects, 50 artists, and 30 sites that took place throughout the notional transpennine region in Great Britain, which spans Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, and Hull.
Yinka Shonibare
Birmingham, England lkon Gallery Over the past few years, Yinka Shonibare has increasingly gained attention with his work shown in London, including the Royal Academy’s “Sensation” in 1997, and his participation in various group shows around the globe.
Mona Hatoum
Basel Kunsthalle The Kunsthalle is, arguably, Basel’s emptiest exhibition space-and that means something in this capital of minimal art. The admission charge is more than that of the Kunstmuseum (medieval to modern) and Museum fur Gegenwartskunst (contemporary) combined, but a visit to the Kunsthalle generally lasts less than an hour.
Jyung Mee Park
Washington, DC Corcoran Gallery of Art First impressions are rarely so misleading as in the case of an initial encounter with Jyung Mee Park’s sculpture. On entering her recent installation, one glimpses crystalline perfection: quartz-facetedsurfaces glowing with an almost cold, internal light.
Bamboo Masterworks
Japanese Baskets from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection New York The Asia Society ln this unique and handsomely installed exhibition, the Asia Society presented a selection of 80 superbly crafted and beautifully formed bamboo baskets borrowed from a collection of about 900 works assembled by Lloyd Cotsen, a retired American corporate executive who recognized their singular
Marina Paris
Rome Galleria De Crescenzo & Viesti On the wall opposite the entrance to Marina Paris’s exhibition, “Taglia Unica,” hung 20 items of children’s clothing, at regular intervals. All painted in the same blue, the garments were plumped and contoured, as if recently worn; paint was irregularly applied; fat drops leaking from the texture of the
Tim Hawkinson
New York Ace Gallery Critical appraisals of Tim Hawkinson usually revolve around his image as a bizarro California inventor dude, puttering away on his strange thingamabobs. There’s no doubt that Hawkinson is often dazzlingly inventive; his ambitious work over the last decade has rightly earned him a reputation as a singular tinkerer.
