LIZ MAGOR – PERSONALIZE

Posted on 2025-04-14

Two fists extend from the gallery walls, each grasping a turning mass that extends to the floor below. As gyres stopped in motion, their coils are stacked in knots and twists, adopting a nearly bodily dimension. Equipped with two small eyes, it’s difficult to avoid personifying these strange creatures as they direct a shocked stare towards the viewer, wordless, or out of breath. The interjection of the uncanny pervades Magor’s work, as seen in Episode, 2024 a continuation of an ongoing series in which Magor meticulously replicates packing materials. Here, cardboard cast in gypsum is bent and folded, forming a compressed chamber that cradles a gleaming object inside. Supported by two bowed legs, the sculpture enacts a tenuous balance. This tension becomes a site of exploration for Magor, as each work represents a form of collision, whether it be between hard and soft, the fleeting and permanent, the anonymous and the personal, or even what is made and what is found. Throughout her work, Magor, with her own degree of humour, tests the limits of our ability to assign narrative and empathy to inanimate objects.

Opposite – Fist (yellow), 2025

Exhibition runs through to August 9th, 2025

Andrew Kreps Gallery
394 Broadway
10013
New York

www.andrewkreps.com

  

WALTER PICHLER – SCULPTURES, DRAWINGS, MODELS

Posted on 2025-04-07

Comprising fourteen works from across Pichler’s rich career, the show highlights the wide range of mediums in which he practiced, including photography, sculpture, and drawing, as well as his exploration of architecture, history, and the relationship between the human body and technology. This exhibition marks a special tribute to late gallery founder Barbara Gladstone, as it was the last presentation she actively oversaw, in close dialogue with Shao and the Walter Pichler Estate. Walter Pichler shunned the limelight of the artworld and the art market, adopting, instead, the quiet surroundings of his home in Saint Martin, a small village in southeastern Austria, where he lived from 1973 until his death. It was there that he built a series of buildings to house his sculptures.
In all his work lies a profound synergy between space and form. This fluid exchange between the built environment and sculpture has at its source a small figurine, perhaps a Christ figure, that he found in a barn on his land when he first arrived. He was inspired to build an altar for it and converted the building into a specially- designed receptacle to house this enigmatic item.

Opposite – Ohne Titel (Untitled), 1985

Exhibition runs through to August 1st, 2025

Gladstone Gallery
Gladstone 64
130 East 64th Street
NY 10065 New York

www.gladstone64.com

  

BENJAMIN SABATIER – CONCRETE & COLORS

Posted on 2025-03-31

As a sculptor, Benjamin Sabatier does not deny the performative dimension of his practice. Exploring the relationship between art and labor, between action and object, through the use of raw or fragile materials (concrete, cardboard or brick) and an abstract vocabulary which references Modernity, the artist critiques the productionist logic of our capital-centric world by making the transformative process of matter visible.

Opposite – HW (Bright Aqua Green / Medium Magenta), 2024

Exhibition runs through to July 26th, 2025

Xippas
108 rue Vieille-du-Temple
75003 Paris
France

www.xippas.com

  

CHRISTINE AY TJOE – COVERED AND COVER

Posted on 2025-03-24

Exploring notions of family silence and painting-as-catharsis, Christine Ay Tjoe’s first solo exhibition in the US debuts a new series revolving around the primacy of expressive gesture and a motif of blood. Borne out of processing the death of a parent and navigating the unspoken, the artist meditates on intergenerational relationships and the role of family silence in burying conflict and pain.

Opposite – Covered and Cover #09, 2025

Exhibition runs through to August 16th, 2025

White Cube
1002 Madison Avenue
NY 10075
New York

www.whitecube.com

  

DANIEL ARSHAM – MEMORY ARCHITECTURE

Posted on 2025-03-17

Memory Architecture centers on Arsham’s distinctive concept of Fictional Archaeology, which symbolizes the core of his artistic universe. The exhibition explores the artist’s interpretation of time and material, presenting works in which forms reminiscent of classical sculpture coexist with artifacts of contemporary civilization. These works evoke the appearance of relics excavated by future archaeologists, visualizing stratified layers of time that exist between the past and the future. Featuring paintings, drawings, and sculptures, the exhibition showcases Arsham’s unique sculptural language that traverses the boundaries of reality and imagination, history and contemporaneity. Through this presentation, viewers are invited to encounter the possibilities of a visual archaeology that seeks to interpret and reconstruct the world anew.

Exhibition runs through to August 16th, 2025

Perrotin
Seoul Dosan Park
10 Dosan-Daero 45-Gil
Gangnam-Gu Seoul
South Korea

www.perrotin.com

  

MARK MANDERS – THREE RELATED WORKS

Posted on 2025-03-10

The exhibition is a continuation of Mark Manders’ ongoing project Self-Portrait as a Building, a project he began in 1986 by creating a hypothetical floor plan using small objects, such as pencils, rulers, and pieces of wood. Gradually expanding in both scale and scope, to-date, iterations of the project have materialised in sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, writing, and publishing. For this exhibition, Manders has chosen to exhibit sculptures, paintings, and a mixed-media installation.

Opposite – Ramble Room Chair, 2010–2025

Exhibition runs through to July 12th, 2025

Modern Art
7 Bury Street
SW1Y 6AL
London

www.modernart.net