El artista parece haber decidido y seleccionado poco, y aunque en realidad haya sucedido todo lo contrario, la sensación es precisamente esa. Tras una pátina de inmediatez, en la obra reside una profunda carga de reflexión; la decisión es la obra en sí, el contraste y el tejido que línea a línea, collage tras collage y papel tras papel establece un desorden de normas, modos y categorías. Continue reading Kiko Pérez
I’ve been thinking about asterisks lately, both as typographic marks and as actual small stars in the sky (asterisk being the diminutive of aster [star]). As a symbol it is particularly multivalent: it can been used in proofreading to mark repetition, it is sometimes enlisted simply for emphasis, and it can serve as a verb as well as noun. In linguistics it indicates a word that has no historical record of use, and it has many applications in mathematics. Continue reading Helen Mirra
In Bloom & Gloom, Hegarty combines her recent interest in ceramics with her long-standing practice producing large-scale installations. Continue reading Valerie Hegarty
Photos: Chad Moore © Urs Fischer . + Gagosian
At the intersection of sculpture, behavior, and choreography, PLAY is an arena of chance encounters where visitors are invited to interact with nine office chairs that seem to have lives of their own. Continue reading Urs Fischer
Baselitz: Six Decades is the first major US retrospective in more than twenty years of one of Germany’s greatest living artists, marking the artist’s 80th birthday. Continue reading Georg Baselitz