THIS DYNAMIC GROUP DREAMS BIG, DARES GREATLY, AND, AS A RESULT, INSPIRES US TO DO SO OURSELVES. REPRESENTING A VARIETY OF FIELDS—FROM FASHION TO FURNITURE DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE TO ARTISAN CRAFTS—THESE EXTRAORDINARY TALENTS OFFER A CREATIVE VISION THAT PUSHES BOUNDARIES, CROSSES MEDIUMS, AND BELIES TRADITIONAL CONCEPTS. FRANCESCO LAGNESEFRANCESCO

GALERIEMAGAZINE.COM 71 “A Flower Flash has to almost be guttural, so it has this exuberance and doesn’t read as overly perfect,” says Lewis Miller

Lewis MILLER From a trash can overflowing with sherbet-colored peonies, tiger lilies, tulips, and sweet peas to a cape of blue blossoms cascading over Wall Street sculpture Fearless Girl, Lewis Miller’s floral arrangements began popping up in New York (and subsequently on Instagram) in October 2016. “I’ve always been slightly tortured about how I could give back in a way that wasn’t just sending a check,” says Miller of his motivation behind the project, which he JR calls Flower Flashes. “Also, I was feeling a bit bored after being in this For the past two decades, the elusive industry for over 20 years and wanted something to rejuvenate me.” More yet ubiquitous French artist and activist than two years later, the floral designer, who was recently appointed creative known simply as JR has transformed director of online flower-delivery service UrbanStems, continues to be buildings in New York, walls in inspired by how much “authentic joy” Flower Flashes bring people, which Palestine, slums in Kenya, and favelas motivates him to create in Rio de Janeiro with his monumental more, resulting in what he black-and-white “pastings” of everyday describes as “a lovely loop.” people. It all started when he was a A Flower Flash needs to be a teenager in Paris and began tagging his combustion of joy: “It has to name on rooftops; after finding a happen when inspiration camera on the Metro, he started taking strikes. It has to almost be portraits and pasting them around the guttural, so it has this city. Most recently, he has focused on exuberance and doesn’t read issues of immigration and national as overly perfect.” borders, making headlines for It has to be ephemeral: “If it his Kikito installation, where a stays there and people take larger-than-life giggling toddler pictures, that’s great, but appeared to hover over the U.S. border ultimately, I want it to be with Mexico. And while he’s most taken apart.” comfortable working outside the It has to stay authentic: “What traditional art system, JR regularly really energizes me the most is shows with museums and galleries. that I’m using leftover flowers Last year, his buzzworthy exhibition at or those from the market that Perrotin New York included a series of my vendors would throw out thought-provoking prints and films as because they’re past their prime. Or I’m supplementing well as a poignant rooftop performance on my own dime, so I’m free to with singer Alicia Keys. Next up is a do whatever, and that’s really secret project at the Louvre in Paris, liberating.” lewismillerdesign the details of which will be unveiled in .com —jill sieracki late March. jr-art.net —LUCY REES FROM TOP: GUILLAUME ZICCARELLI, COURTESY OF PERROTIN; IRINI ARAKAS GREENBAUM ARAKAS IRINI PERROTIN; OF COURTESY GUILLAUME ZICCARELLI, TOP: FROM

72 GALERIEMAGAZINE.COM “The places and spaces in which we live and entertain help craft the experiences that we carry with us forever,” says Ken Fulk

Britton, and Lupita Nyong’o lined up to Instagram it. His recent venture, Saint Joseph’s Arts Society (below), for which he transformed a blighted 22,000-square-foot Romanesque-revival church in downtown San Francisco into an art gallery with boutiques and performance space, has WEST 8 become a lesson in how From revitalizing riverbanks in down- town Madrid to reviving the monumen- adaptive reuse can transform a tal fountains at Pennsylvania’s historic neighborhood. “I hope this will be a resource Ken Longwood Gardens, the environmental to build a community around,” says Fulk, who FULK experts at West 8 have been drawing divides his time between the East and West attention—and foot traffic—to over- “It’s not just about design for design’s sake,” Coasts. “I’m constantly drawn to folks whose looked landscapes since 1987. After says designer and event planner Ken Fulk, minds work utterly differently than mine. winning the coveted 2006 commission whose creations for clients such as Instagram They look at the world through another lens. to transform Governors Island (above) cofounder Kevin Systrom, Sean Parker, and It’s intoxicating to go on a journey with in New York, the groundbreaking Alexis and Trevor Traina help turn the real them.” kenfulk.com —JENNIFER ASH RUDICK Dutch firm established its first U.S. into the surreal. “The places outpost in Manhattan. (It also has and spaces in which we live offices in Rotterdam and Brussels.) and entertain help craft the Upcoming projects: “The gardens of experiences that we carry One Manhattan Square in New York with us forever. Every capture influences from around the moment matters.” world, offering enclaves of closeness Fulk’s work at this year’s and a calm natural environment,” Golden Globes is a perfect says Daniel Vasini, creative director for West 8’s New York office. “We’re example: He decorated the also excited about the first phase of elevator that took attendees Houston Botanic Garden—Botanic from the ceremony to the Beginnings—opening in 2020. after-party, tricking out the lift Houstonians from all walks of life will with a Stark Leopard carpet soon have the opportunity to learn and a fully stocked vintage about and enjoy plants from around Aldo Tura bar. The result: Stars the world.” west8.com like Debra Messing, Connie —geoffrey montes BAAN IWAN DOUGLAS(2); FRIEDMAN TOP: FROM COUNTERCLOCKWISE

74 GALERIEMAGAZINE.COM our projects,” she says. “It’s not that it’s just good for business, it’s good for the soul.” Subsequently, she has expanded the family’s holdings to Olafur include galleries as well as Goldman Global Arts, which ELIASSON helps match corporate clients Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson’s works often bring with artists to create site-specific, natural phenomena—like light, moisture, heat, large-scale installations, including ice—into unusual settings, suggesting a medita- the massive murals at Hard Rock tion on our perception of the world. He’s poured water-soluble dye into rivers, turning them green, Stadium, commissioned by and once created four faux waterfalls in New York developer and Miami Dolphins City to explore the properties of water. In early owner Stephen Ross after he December, he installed 24 blocks of ice, which were visited Wynwood. taken from the Nuup Kangerlua Fjord in Greenland, This year, Srebnick’s company outside Tate Modern as a visceral reminder of the celebrates the ten-year anniversary effects of climate change. “We hope that Ice Watch of Wynwood Walls and the recent created feelings of proximity, presence, and rele- opening of Wynwood Garage, a vance of narratives that you can identify with and sculptural 428-car garage with retail that make us all engage,” he wrote on his blog the JESSICA GOLDMAN and office space. Next up is a day in early January that the ice fully melted. still-under-wraps real-estate project in Texas Last summer, he completed his first permanent SREBNICK to be announced this spring. building—a fortresslike office in the Vejle Fjord in Denmark—which applied the artist’s experience “Creativity is a core component to the Srebnick is also a cochair of the working with light, perception, and nature to a func- DNA of our company,” says Goldman committee for the Miami Super Bowl, in tioning architectural structure. And in September, Properties’ CEO, Jessica Goldman 2020, and plans to add more artistic he and his sister, Victoria Eliasdóttir (a chef who Srebnick, the civic-minded entrepreneur elements to the big game. “Real estate is worked with Alice Waters at Chez Panisse), opened who took over the Miami real-estate firm still the foundation of everything that we SOE Kitchen 101, a pop-up culinary and event of her late father, Tony Goldman, the do,” she says, “but our philosophy is if space in Reykjavík where local arts organizations will developer and arts patron who launched you’re going to put new things into the present a series of lectures, poetry readings, and the massive street art project Wynwood world, put things that are more beautiful, musical performances. The aim is to enable people Walls. “I recognized just how meaningful it more thought-provoking, and more to understand that “eating isn’t just about passively rozalia jovanovic is to incorporate large-scale public art into h op e f u l .” goldmanproperties.com —J.S. consuming.” olafureliasson.net — PRICHETT JACK ELLIOT; SHANE FORGHAM-BAILEY; CHARLIE PROPERTIES; GOLDMAN OF COURTESY LEFT: TOP FROM CLOCKWISE

KULAPAT YANTRASAST New York. Most recently, Yantrasast made a splash Kulapat Yantrasast honed his timeless aesthetic under by crafting the temporary pavilion for the inaugural the watchful eye of celebrated Japanese architect edition of the art fair Frieze L.A., which launched in Tadao Ando before striking out on his own in 2004. February. He found this commission a particularly His uncanny ability to create buildings as understated encouraging sign of the growing influence of cultural as they are compelling (like this Indiana office park movers and shakers: “I hope in the future that art and art gallery, right) has landed his architecture gets to play a larger role in empathy and diplomacy firm, wHY, two of its highest-profile commissions: for the world,” he says. why-site.com —g.m. renovations at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History in

76 GALERIEMAGAZINE.COM RAFAEL DE CÁRDENAS ANA KHOURI For the Brazilian-born, New No two projects have been the same York–based Ana Khouri, jewelry for Architecture at Large founder is a form of wearable art. Last

Rafael de Cárdenas. Take, for example, fall, Khouri, who also works as a Nike’s invitation-only gym at its New classical sculptor, presented 60 York headquarters, or his eye-popping jaw-dropping pieces in a solo graphic maze at Cadillac House, which exhibition at Phillips auction blurs the lines between art installation house in New York. “I believe and commercial space. my approach to jewelry didn’t Amazing feat: “For the Kenzo façade exist before,” says the designer, in Korea, we proposed something no whose gem-encrusted one has done before: We covered it geometric and organic forms are with 862 green, three-dimensional inspired by the work of artists Ryan KORBAN plastic cones that resemble a tailor’s such as Louise Bourgeois, When it comes to designing spaces that artfully mix spool of yarn. The building is stone, so Constantin Brancusi, and we had to create a removable struc- uptown glam with downtown swagger, in-the-know Richard Serra. “They inspired ture that could anchor them.” brands such as Balenciaga, Altuzarra, and Alexander me to look at shapes in relation Our style: “I don’t think we have a Wang call Ryan Korban. This breakout talent is hitting to space and movement and to style. I want every project to be an his well-heeled stride, and his stunning monograph push myself to create opportunity to do something new. released by Rizzoli last fall has the breadth of his unexpected and unique forms Clients can tell I’m excited.” commercial and residential work to prove it. But fashion that come to life when worn.” architectureatlarge.com isn’t his only calling card; Korban has undertaken his anakhouri.com —l.r. —jacqueline terrebonne first real-estate project, 40 Bleecker, cultivating every KANG; PILMO LANDON SPEERS; RASMUS/BFA; NEIL LEFT: TOP FROM CLOCKWISE (2) KHOURI ANA OF COURTESY detail of the luxury apartments and common areas. “With 40 Bleecker, I felt like I was doing something in the residential space, but I was still using all of my commercial and retail experience; it was the pinnacle of both those worlds colliding,” says Korban. The real-estate project marks just the latest chapter in his oeuvre, which is constantly evolving—from Wang’s marble- and stone-filled SoHo boutique to artfully fabricated pop-ups for Lalique and Barneys New York, which also sells Korban-made products. His next challenge includes a collection with EJ Victor that is still in development. “I’m not the kind of designer that loves the process of hunting and finding treasures,” says Korban. “I prefer to build things, design things, make things.” ryankorban.com —J.S.

78 GALERIEMAGAZINE.COM VINCENZO DE COTIIS inspection. decotiis.it come alive with and detail invention on more careful which can appear quite spare upon firstglance yet ofmastery patina is found inhis residential projects, embellished with semiprecious stones.same The Murano that glass appeared almost fluid,then ofcollection deconstructed classical shapes bound by Plein Air” exhibition comprised an otherworldly silver-cast brass and French marble. His recent “En approach to layering common materials paired with design fairs. Cotiis’s De signature is acareful Carpenters Workshop and contemporary Gallery than must-have, the modern-day works shown at something excavated from an abandoned palazzo high-concept furniture pieces more look like architect and artist Vincenzo His de Cotiis. No imperfection one quite perfect does like Italian —J.T. jacquemus.com last spring. jacquemus.com Le Gadjo, madeitsretail debut His first-evermen’s collection, occasional theatricalmoment. are opentothepublic,and yet wearabledesigns,showsthat become knownforconceptual evenings. In theyearssince,he’s tion, whichhecreated inthe he couldfundhisowncollec- one ofthebrand’sboutiquesso Adrian Joffetogivehimajobat Comme desGarçons CEO in retail: Jacquemuspersuaded be saidforhisdecisiontowork out ofnecessity. The samecan unlikely choice,butonemade owned acurtainshop.It wasan was madebyaseamstress who first piecehedesigned—askirt— almost noformaltraining. The at thetenderageof19andwith launched hisJacquemuslabel Simon Porte Jacquemus — JACQUEMUS SIMON PORTE rima

suqi sashasykes.com India Gate inDelhi afterChristmas.” Rome, andIdraggedmyfamilytosee obsessively lookingatcorbelsin of imperialism,soIfoundmyself much ofithastodowiththecollapse working onaseriescalled‘Trove.’ So Finding inspiration:“I havebeen and magicmaterial.” warm gold.It’s suchanunpredictable it turnedintoanincredibly beautiful caught theinsideofegg-wrackpods, (Ophelia) ‘discoveries.’ IwasdoingtheGyre Almost 20yearslater, I’m stillmaking I wouldneedanalternativemedium. elements withstronger colors,Iknew first, butwhenIwantedtoshownatural New “I surprises: worked at inacrylics thinking bigger.” what canbedonewithresin. Ikeep engineering, and pushingthelimitsof have really excited mewithscale, chair, The Wall, andAsIAmNow “Pieces suchasStraw cube,Carlow who originallystudiedarchitecture. of thenaturalmaterials,”saysSykes, balances thedelicatenature ofmany a certainboldnesstotheirformthat decorative objects.“My pieceshave multipanel screens, tables,and tocreate items inresins andacrylics grasses, branches,andotherforaged ethereal worksbycastingflowers, Irish artistSashaSykes creates

Sasha screen, and when the resin screen, andwhentheresin — j . s . SYKES

LEFT PAGE, COUNTERCLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: COURTESY OF VINCENZO DE COTIIS ARCHITECTS AND GALLERY (2); COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND VOLTZ CLARKE GALLERY (2); BERTRAND GUAY/AFP/GETTY IMAGES. RIGHT PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: FERNANDO SANCHO; MARCELO KRASILCIC; COURTESY OF SILVIA FURMANOVICH; DIDIER DELMAS; SCOTT RUDD Silvia FURMANOVICH JANE PANETTA AND Silvia Furmanovich once took two planes, a RUJEKO HOCKLEY car, and a canoe to meet an artist skilled in As the nation’s longest-running wood marquetry whose work intrigued her. “I survey of American art, the am led by the potential and possibilities I can Whitney Biennial is viewed as envision in a material or technique, and I will a launchpad for artists, making the curator’s job a herculean do anything to reach the source and explore task. This year, the Whitney further to create something new,” admits Museum’s Jane Panetta (below, the designer, whose father, grandfather, and right) and Rujeko Hockley are great-grandfather were all goldsmiths. Her in the driver’s seat. “We’ve tried jewelry, handbags, and decorative accessories to include younger artists and have been described as “unconventional” and those who haven’t shown in a “visionary” due to her use of uncommon ma- biennial before,” says Hockley. terials; her penchant for What will set the 79th edition unexpected pairings of apart is that there will also be a metals, stones, and other heavy dose of performance art, natural elements; and something the curators consider her continual search for an underrated medium. “At a moment when younger galleries new creative partners. and artists are struggling and SANDER LAK “Innovation is how you there is limited funding in the Sies Marjan’s Sander Lak begins every collec- keep yourself relevant,” world for performance,” says tion with a color card. He finds inspiration in she says. “Innovation has a savvy mash-up of pop culture and academic Panetta, “it felt particularly the power to surprise references, everything from the Dunkin’ logo important to give this work a to a Netflix docuseries. “It’s very much based p e op l e .” silvia platform.” whitney.org —l.r. on gut feelings and emotional decisions,” says furmanovich.com —R.S. Lak, whose shows have become New York Fashion Week’s hottest ticket and star a di- verse inner circle that includes models Anna Ewers, Lexi Boling, and Roberto Rossellini. Family affair: “This spring season ended up very much being about my father, who passed away when I was younger. It was about what he wore and who he was, but also about feeling so at home in New York. The cast included friends (old ones from school to new ones), family (my mom was in the show, too), people I work with here at Sies Marjan, and models we have worked with for a while.” siesmarjan.com —j.a.r.

MARCEL WANDERS How one designer could conjure up 2,000 unique, the Louis Vuitton Petits Nomades leather-trimmed highly sought-after pieces is truly mind-boggling, yet mirror and the floral Eden Queen rug from his own Marcel Wanders’s output easily reaches that benchmark. brand, Moooi. Recently, he launched the Globe Trotter His Amsterdam firm, which touts Alessi and Christofle collection with Roche Bobois, which includes tables with among its list of collaborators, infuses myriad brands legs cheekily dressed in stocking-like fabric. Next up: a with warmth, humor, and an uplifting quality. There are new lighting collection with Lladró, inspired by delicate his instant classics, such as the Flos Skygarden pendant flower petals, called Night Bloom. When every product light and his playful take on Louis XIV chandeliers for he imagines is so perfectly memorable, enough is never Baccarat, as well as highly covetable creations, like enough. marcelwanders.com —j.t.

GALERIEMAGAZINE.COM 81 business school in Paris and has “never taken a single cook- ing class.” “I make the food the main experience, though, with curated, creative feasts.” This fall, in opening a kitchen and social spot designed by stylish French architect Charles Zana, YASMIN AND he intends to redefine the CHRISTIAN HEMMERLE concept of a dinner party. Yasmin and Christian Hemmerle, who run the 125-year-old, family-owned high-jewelry house On the menu: “There’s caviar Hemmerle, are renowned for challenging the in at least one dish at every conventions of luxury. Their revered bijoux mix event—it’s festive and special. gemstones with unconventional metals like Everybody loves it, and the aluminum and copper and rare aged woods to less expensive farmed versions extraordinary effect. “Color is so important are quite delicious.” to us,” Yasmin says, “and sometimes the Modern inspiration: “For classic materials aren’t enough to bring out the different hues of a gemstone.” Signature a dinner at Philip Johnson’s designs include rope necklaces made of Glass House, we researched intricately knitted cut stones, spiky earrings the classic recipes he would studded with reverse pavé, and an open-ended prepare and refined them, bangle. “We never get bored of experimenting and then served everything with design and process,” says Christian. The Yann in glasses and silver from the era. It was couple divide their time between traveling something else to cook on the original the world, running the Munich atelier with NURY stove in his kitchen.” a team of around 20 master craftsmen, and exhibiting at prestigious For New York chef Yann Nury, catering is Going the distance: “We found an antique art fairs, including PAD not one size fits all. Of the 400 menus his meat slicer from the 1820s and drove it London and TEFAF New team created last year, every single one was 3,000 miles from the south of Italy to create York and Maastricht, unique, which is why he’s regularly hired by an Italian peasant banquet in the riding where they’ll style-setting brands like Dior and Tiffany & ring, where the Chantilly horses practice, be showing Co. as well as a lengthy list of very private for a Dior couture event in France. There’s new pieces VIPs. “People call a caterer because they nothing like seeing women in couture dig- in the spring. need one for a party, not because they’re ging into wheels of Parmigiano-Reggiano.” hemmerle.com craving the food,” says Nury, who went to yannnurynyc.com —J.T. —l.r. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: COURTESY OF YANN NURY; MONIKA HOEFLER; COURTESY OF HEMMERLE; AN RONG XU RONG AN HEMMERLE; OF COURTESY HOEFLER; MONIKA NURY; YANN OF COURTESY LEFT: TOP FROM CLOCKWISE

inaugural season will be Steve Reich’s collaboration ALEX POOTS with painter Gerhard Richter and composer Arvo Pärt, When The Shed, the multidisciplinary cultural calling opening in April; come May, Björk is mounting a new card of Hudson Yards, opens on April 5, it will offer staged concert series. The lineup also includes a perfor- something entirely new in the creative landscape of mance piece written by poet Anne Carson and starring New York. “A commissioning center for all arts hadn’t soprano Renée Fleming that explores the lives of been done,” says its artistic director, Alex Poots, who Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy. “There’s a curiosity is known for his mash-ups of avant-garde music, visual across disciplines,” says Poots. “In our world when we’re arts, and pop culture. “I felt it was an important thing questioning things like equality, there being high art and to do.” Among the 13 new commissions slated for the low art are not really acceptable.” theshed.org —r.j.

82 GALERIEMAGAZINE.COM “Horticulture can convey many hidden aspects of the soil—it’s a powerful vehicle for narrative,” says Thomas Woltz

Thomas WOLTZ “Horticulture can convey many hidden aspects of the soil—it’s a powerful vehicle for narrative,” says landscape architect Thomas Woltz. As a principal and owner of Nelson Byrd Woltz, he’s perfected the art of telling stories that quite literally spring from the earth. With a DAVID WISEMAN portfolio that includes a 3,000-acre “This is the busiest chapter of my life,” says New Zealand sheep ranch, a Los Angeles artist and designer David meadow at the Naval Cemetery in Wiseman, “but since I’ve been working, I’ve Brooklyn (right), and the somber always said the same thing.” There’s the slew Flight 93 National Memorial in of custom commissions, including a Shanksville, Pennsylvania, the chandelier canopy that conjures “an 45-person practice (which has overhead, glowing dream garden made of offices in New York and plaster, porcelain, and rock crystal,” which his Charlottesville, Virginia) has studio is working on for a high-profile become the natural choice for celebrity couple. New pieces in an exhibition opening March 14 at Kasmin in New York, major public projects meant to send Wiseman’s first with the gallery, will a forceful message that’s both demonstrate just how his work bridges art beautiful and environmental. and design. In his quest to realize a perfect In March, NBW is set to unveil jungle paradise, Wiseman will debut wallpaper one of its most challenging projects to date: a five-acre public plaza at Hudson depicting monkeys and a lagoon at the show Yards, the new mixed-use development on Manhattan’s West Side. “We had to as well, plus a monolithic marble fireplace create a human-scaled public space adjacent to 1,000-foot-tall skyscrapers, with a collage composition of “fish scale, design for shade cast by the buildings, provide nutrient-rich soil for plants to clover, chrysanthemums, water, and shark grow, and insulate the plant beds from the 150-degree heat blasting from the teeth.” dwiseman.com —j.t. trains below,” he explains. Ever the alchemist, Woltz took those constraints in stride, conjuring a beautiful centerpiece for the neighborhood that will not only recycle some 80 percent of the site’s rainwater but also flourish throughout the year with over 28,000 plants, including winterberry, spicebush, and echinacea. Also nearing completion are Memorial Park in Houston and Nashville’s Centennial Park, two beloved green spaces with deep historical roots in their respective cities. “When all is said and done, more than 36 million people annually will interact with an NBW park,” says Woltz. “So many lessons can be found in working with plants. I don’t think there is ever a final realization but a

continuous learning.” nbwla.com —G.M. (2); STUDIO WISEMAN OF COURTESY HANAUER; MARK TOP: FROM COUNTERCLOCKWISE TOUHEY MAX WRIGHT; ROBERT

84 GALERIEMAGAZINE.COM 86 ourselves is by risks.” taking royasachs.com more only impact. way “The canevolvewe and shape Edelman Lizzie partner to create cultural moments with a company with Millies and E:Six Strategy managing out of your comfort zone,” says Sachs, is who launching Kate Gilmore and Heather Rowe. “You always have to be brothers, and staging by Whitney the Biennial artists ballerina” Karole Armitage, costumes by Campana the Schlemmer. It featured choreography by “punk a digital-age remake by of a1922 ballet Oskar There, shewhen and Mafalda Milliescocreated Virtually among others. Her breakout moment in2016, occurred artists Katherine Bernhardt and Sylvester Reginald II, she has staged anumber of boundary-pushing shows by curator of House Lever for the Collection, which Art was director art the at time. the Now Sachs is the vigorous dance movements, at Spring Place, where she Infoxication, bit technology. of Google In November, she staged trained opera singer, acontemporary artist, and visual a performancesexperiential might involve aclassically happenings—that leave audiences giddy. These cross-disciplinary productions—usually one-off Roya Sachs is becoming well-regarded for her Roya SACHS Roya GALERIEMAGAZINE.COM amelee of minimal sounds and repetitive —R.J.

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: BRAD OGBONNA; FRED DUFOUR/AFP/GETTY IMAGES; COURTESY OF AO YUN; FRANCESCO LAGNESE line of bronze jewelry and his recent show at local Galerie Tindouf of color-rich, soul-stirring portraits. And then to craft his unique, deceptively heavy bronze pieces, which are available at Maison Gerard, MIRIAM PETERSON he revitalized one of the few true AND NATHAN RICH foundries left in Morocco to resurrect In 2018, the duo behind architecture firm ancient sand-casting techniques. All P.R.O. completed the Lower East Side’s Odedra’s pieces are handmade, and largest art gallery, a 20,000-square-foot no two are alike. Some he polishes outpost of Perrotin set in an erstwhile fabric smooth, while for others he leaves the store. They also collaborated on beauty texture natural. For his ceramics, he behemoth Glossier’s sensuous SoHo flagship, which debuted in November. “Since it’s on works with another local group of the second floor, we had to make the most artisans to create bowls in subtle, exciting stair in the city,” says firm cofounder earthy shades that include a cluster Miriam Peterson of the chic red-quartz-lined inspired by the bamboo trees at steps that lead to a lighted oculus. Marrakech’s famed Majorelle Garden. Up next are a smattering of projects, On top of all that, Odedra continues including two innovative but wildly different to collaborate with Owens on his line residential buildings, one on the Lower East of home accessories and plots special Side and one in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. projects with Michelle Lamy. (“We don’t adhere to a singular aesthetic or limited material choices,” says Peterson.) maisongerard.com —J.T. Jaimal And in Peekskill, New York, they’re expand- ing a nondescript warehouse into a vibrant ODEDRA cultural space for the Hudson Valley Mu- The work of Jaimal Odedra may be rooted in seum of Contemporary Art. The intention, Moroccan tradition, but his rich background says the other half of P.R.O., Nathan Rich, stretches much further than his current home “is to elevate the architecture of the existing building and create an iconic institution for in Marrakech. His diverse résumé—from the town, a real destination.” Bollywood costume designer and creative All these commissions mean a lot of to- director to fashion designer at Rick Owens gether time for the husband-and-wife team. and Givenchy in Paris and Calvin Klein and “For us, it’s fun,” says Peterson. “We like being Ralph Lauren in New York—has led to together, and we’d probably be intolerable to anyone else.” pro-arch.com g m myriad fantastical pursuits. There’s his new — . . ARUTYUNOVA SASHA CAMILLERI; ARIAN ODEDRA; JAIMAL OF COURTESY PRANDONI/BFA; MATTEO TOP: FROM

KLAUS BIESENBACH contemporary artist Cao Fei. Now he’s bringing that Over the past two decades, Klaus Biesenbach has savvy to his new role as director of MOCA in L.A. Just become known for bringing underrepresented voices weeks after he took the helm in October 2018, the to center stage, most notably as chief curator at large museum announced new board members, including at MoMA, where he raised the recognition of perfor- K11 Art Foundation founder Adrian Cheng, Sean mance art (the showstopping 2010 exhibition “Marina Parker, and Julia Stoschek, the buzzy German art pa- Abramovic: The Artist Is Present”), or as director tron who has amassed the most important collection of the museum’s edgy Queens offshoot, MoMA of time-based art in the world. Biesenbach is clearly PS1, where he staged groundbreaking solo shows by on his way to ensuring that MOCA better reflects the emerging talents such as Ryan Trecartin and Chinese city’s diverse communities. moca.org —r.j.

88 GALERIEMAGAZINE.COM REXHEP REXHEPI Thirty-one-year-old Rexhep Rexhepi is a rising star in the rar- efied world of haute horologie. Just last November, his brand, AkriviA (meaning “precision” in Greek), won the men’s watch award at the prestigious Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève. Rexhepi cut his teeth with the masters at Patek Philippe and F. P. Journe before opening his own atelier in 2012 at the youthful age of 25. In an increasingly digital CINDY CHAO world, AkriviA stands out for its Since opening her company, the deep commitment to history Art Jewel, Cindy Chao has been and artisanal craftsmanship. The heralded for her dramatic, gem- award-winning Chronomètre Con- encrusted floral fantasies. Her temporain became one of the most work, limited to fewer than 20 talked-about watches of the year, pieces a year, is marked by fearless- thanks to its elegant Art Deco de- ness matched with such astounding sign and beautifully decorated (and technical skill that the Smithsonian technically difficult) symmetrical Natural History Museum acquired movements. Production is limited her exquisite Butterfly brooch, to just 30 timepieces a year, with a masterpiece crafted of 2,300 no plans to expand. “I want to stay Brodie NEILL gems of diamonds, rubies, and small and personal to guarantee a No stranger to turning discarded materials into sculptural tsavorite garnets. “I am driven high level of quality,” he says, “but furnishings, designer Brodie Neill initially experimented to make breakthroughs in the also to enjoy my work.” akrivia.com with melting different types of ocean waste together. The possibilities of jewelry,” says the —l.r. unknown chemicals in such fragments, however, made the Taiwan-based Chao, who has also concoction too unpredictable to use. “By adapting a made headlines for her staggering auction results. “I want my art jew- traditional terrazzo technique, I was better able to bond els to transcend time, geography, the pieces into something functional,” explains Neill, who culture, and language, as this is launched the London furniture studio Made in Ratio in what art is capable of.” 2013. “The fact that the final result was so visually striking Unique process: “Each creation was a happy coincidence.” begins with cire perdue, a lost-wax His first piece—a dazzling table with hypnotic casting method that was popular blue-plastic mosaics—was immediately acquired for an in 18th-century Europe, and takes Australian museum’s permanent collection. Soon after, his around 10,000 hours to create.” lauded Drop in the Ocean installation featured a cocktail cindychao.com —l.r. table and bench made of the new material. The works amplified the conversation about environmental design, and Neill was invited to speak in front of the parliament of the European Union and a marine conference hosted by the United Nations. “I want my art jewels This April, Made in Ratio is slated to unveil new works to transcend time, at the Fuorisalone during Milan Design Week. Neill will also expand his ocean-terrazzo series. “These provocative geography, culture, objects of activism will launch at events throughout the and language, as this year, while providing key moments to further the much-needed dialogue of material consumption and is what art is capable protection of our natural world.” brodieneill.com —G.M. of,” says Cindy Chao SWISSWATCHES OF COURTESY (2); JEWEL ART THE CHAO, CINDY OF COURTESY ANGELA MOORE; LEFT: FAR FROM

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SHOHEI Theaster SHIGEMATSU Head of the New York branch of OMA, Pritzker GATES Prize winner Rem Koolhaas’s legendary firm, A painter, sculptor, activist, scholar, and urban planner, Theaster Gates lives Japanese-born visionary Shohei Shigematsu has somewhere at the intersection of art and community engagement. One of his seen his profile rise quickly, thanks to his role most notable works is the Dorchester Projects in Chicago, a series of dilapidated as lead architect on a host of dazzling projects, houses on the South Side of his hometown that Gates purchased and turned into including Miami Beach’s Pantheon-inspired cultural centers. It is just one part of his ambitious Rebuild Foundation, the Faena Forum and a glass pavilion for the Musée nonprofit he founded in 2010 with three core values, which he has described as National des Beaux-Arts in Quebec City. Opening soon is OMA’s first ground-up building “black people matter, black spaces matter, and black objects matter.” in New York, an 18-story residential tower In a slight pivot from his social practice, Gates designed the buzzy, site-specific (below). Next, Shigematsu will unveil plans for a installation for Prada Mode, the luxury brand’s members-only nightclub during steeply pitched annex for the New Museum that 2018’s Art Basel in Miami Beach and an offshoot of his show at Fondazione Prada will double the downtown institution’s square in Milan. Next up is a spring footage, and a total revamp of Sotheby’s Man- presentation of new work at hattan headquarters. Also in the pipeline is his Richard Gray’s warehouse in soon-to-be-announced debut furniture collec- Chicago, and in the fall Gates will tion. Dabbling outside the architectural world, take over and partially renovate Shigematsu recently drew acclaim for designing New York’s historic Park Avenue the Denver Art Museum’s Dior exhibition, Armory to host his renowned which will travel to Dallas this summer. “We Black Artists Retreat, the first often find constraints and obstacles a source of great design,” he says. oma.eu —g.m. time the event will happen outside Chicago. In 2020, he’ll have an exhibition at mega- gallery Gagosian, which recently began representing him in New York. “It’s rare to see the elasticity that comes so naturally to his practice,” Valerie Carberry, partner at Richard Gray Gallery, says of Gates. “He finds what is radical in the deeply familiar.” rebuild-foundation.org —HALEY CHOUINARD FROM TOP: FRANCESCO LAGNESE; ASTRID STAWIARZ/GETTY IMAGES FOR PRADA; RENDERING BY BYENCORE, COURTESY OF OMA OF COURTESY BYENCORE, BY RENDERING PRADA; FOR IMAGES STAWIARZ/GETTY ASTRID LAGNESE; FRANCESCO TOP: FROM

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