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Donna Huanca, an artist of Bolivian-American descent, creates art that challenges the male gaze while exploring narratives that center on feminine and indigenous perspectives, as well as mark-making. Her installations, which often incorporate painting, sculpture, and live performance, are intricately woven into the specific architectural spaces in which they are presented. Huanca's art is deeply rooted in ritual practice and serves as a conduit for transcendence, meditation, and transformation.In 2022, Huanca created a captivating and immersive architectural environment for her commissioned exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, Washington. The space featured a vast stage of interlocking ovoid/cellular forms, landscaped with white sand and six mirrored "screen" sculptures, along w...

Gian Maria Tosatti is an artist for the people. Born in Rome and now based in Naples, he understands that the pretentiousness and spectacle that often orbits around some artists and works will not be tolerated by many pockets of society. Under this framework, Tosatti creates large-scale installations that are accessible to the public and confront real issues, be it the climate or refugee emergency, all the whilst maintaining a sense of beauty, mystery and intrigue. Having represented Italy at the 59th Venice Biennale last year, Tosatti unveiled a new exhibition at Milan's Pirelli HangarBicocca. Entitled NOw/here, which can be read as “now” and “here,” or sequentially, as in “nowhere", the Italian artist worked with curator Vicente Todolí and light designer Pasquale Mari to showcase two bod...

For those of you looking forward to the upcoming Yayoi Kusama exhibition at David Zwirner, there will likely be a line. The New York solo show will play host to a new "Infinity Room", which in past iterations such as at The Broad, has accrued lines as long as four hours from fans and social media users waiting to get a pic.Entitled I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers, the show marks the tenth anniversary since Kusama first exhibited with David Zwirner and is being hailed as her "largest gallery exhibition to date." Apart from the "Infinity Room", the acclaimed Japanese artist will also present a series of new paintings and sculptures that ruminate on her career-long exploration into pumpkins and floral motifs. At 93, Kusama has been busy, as she currently has an ongoing exhibition at the Pé...