By Alex Greenberger. Senior Editor, ARTnews. But with this survey, Da Corte comes into the spotlight as a painter of strange abstractions.
Included among the 40 paintings here are ones made using shampoo, which Da Corte purchased at drugstores and then utilized to form blotchy abstractions reminiscent of Morris Louis and Mark Rothko. This is a big year for Anselm Kiefer, a German artist known for making very big paintings and very big sculptures dealing with the trauma still lingering from World War II.
Ahead of a US retrospective coming to St. But the Palazzo Barberini has marshaled more than a few great Caravaggios held abroad for the show, which will include The Cardsharps , a salacious canvas that rarely leaves the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.
But Veronica Ryan has typically gone small and spare, and the Spike Island show that gained her a Turner Prize nomination in was filled with minimalist sculptures composed of clay-cast cocoa pods glazed using ash from her native Montserrat.
Now, she will have her first US survey, which will assemble some works produced since the s that raise tiny objects such as seeds and fruit—the stuff most people consider minor and unimportant—to the status of high art. Should we bitterly confront the dark forces of our world head-on, or should we approach them more rationally, less angrily?
