Damián Ortega Finds Inspiration in a Newspaper to Create Barbican Art Gallery’s Latest Exhibition

LONDON.- Over the period of a month leading up to the exhibition opening, acclaimed Mexican artist Damián Ortega worked in The Curve creating new works on a regular basis in response to aspects of the daily news. Each day he took inspiration from a newspaper. This could be a news item, a photographic story or graphics selected from local, national or international press which he translated into a physical interpretation be it a sculpture, installation, proposition or prototype for a future [...]

Works by Lynda Benglis, Spanning 40 Years of Creative Output, on View in Rhode Island

PROVIDENCE, RI.- American sculptor Lynda Benglis (b. 1941) has defied prevailing views on the nature and function of art for more than 40 years. The exhibition Lynda Benglis, at The RISD Museum is composed of more than 50 works that represent the breadth of her remarkable output, dating from the 1960s through today. The RISD Museum is the first of only two North American venues for this major survey show. Benglis’s best-known works question the rigors of Modernism and Minimalism [...]

Recent Glass Sculptures by Tristano di Robilant at Faggionato Fine Arts

LONDON.- Faggionato Fine Arts presents Water-Point an exhibition of recent glass sculptures by the Italo-American artist Tristano di Robilant. The exhibition presents 9 works, which at first appear to be simple and rudimentary organic compositions in delicate hues of amber, green, pale yellow and clear glass. The complexity of the pieces only becomes understood from a detailed observation. Di Robilant begins the sculptural process with preparatory drawings, these are not heavily pre-determined but are instead light intuitive sketches. To realize [...]