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Bice Lazzari: Modernist Pioneer review – exquisite, tranquil abstraction that draws you in
Who was Bice Lazzari? At the Estorick Collection in north London, the curator Renato Miracco puts the case for this too little-known Italian modernist with utmost straightforwardness. On display are 40 works, offered with next to nothing by way of commentary; should you want to know something of Lazzari’s family background, for instance, you’ll just have to do your own research. But if such an approach seems, at times, on the risky side – in the gallery, it’s hard to get your bearings at first – Miracco’s confidence that Lazzari’s art will ultimately speak for itself is surely not misplaced.
Sreshta Rit Premnath’s Meditations on Makeshift Sites
For his exhibition at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Sreshta Rit Premnath has filled the gallery with minimalist assemblages of shiny aluminium containers that echo the forms of cardboard boxes, weedy soil patches, a chain-link fence and white plaster slabs evocative of limp limbs. From the ceiling hang makeshift jugs from which water trickles through intravenous tubes onto the erratic plant life below. One assemblage, Hold/Fold 2 (all works 2021), features a curved piece of plaster reminiscent of a skatepark’s architecture, out of which sprout weeds, grass and possibly the beginnings of a bush or tree. These bleak sculptural configurations conjure up improvised interventions on neglected sites: urban community gardens, migrant encampments, squatter areas.
Tripping the Time Stamp. A Conversation with Simon Denny
Simon Denny is one of the first established artists to engage with blockchain ideology, creating works that render visible the strategies and aesthetics of the technosphere. Through ambitious multimedia installations and now NFTs, Denny channels the insights of crypto’s prehistory into a critical vision for this precarious field. Sonja Teszler: You once said that “the most fundamentally disruptive” aspect of the blockchain was its potential to “monetize the attention economy” through a “proliferation of tokens.” Has this happened in quite the way you anticipated?
5 Works to Know by Paula Modersohn-Becker, the ‘First Modern Woman Artist’
When it comes to art history, firsts are notoriously tough to pinpoint—it can be difficult to definitively state that someone did something before anyone else when the world is so big and when visual expression is so diverse. But Paula Modersohn-Becker is believed to be a true pioneer at a least a few respects. She is considered to be among the first modern women to create a nude self-portrait and one of the first to paint such an image of herself pregnant. Her biographer, Diane Radycki, went one step further, labeling the artist the first modernist woman painter altogether in a 2013 book.
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