Hannah Levy, Untitled, 2025
Chrome steel, glass, 113 × 101.6 × 91.4 cm. Offered by Casey Kaplan. $65k
Monica Khemsurov and Jill Singer This was our first introduction to the work of Hannah Levy, and we’re just a little obsessed. Her work sits on the centre of a venn diagram that features Louise Bourgeois, Eileen Grey, Tim Burton and Roald Dahl. Doesn’t this seem like a contraption from which Miss Trunchbull would possibly slingshot a baby? Both that, or like a menstrual cup that’s been strung as much as dry. The shape is gorgeous however oddly menacing; the truth that the gallery textual content likens it to a bassinet makes the entire thing much more unsettling. We learn that Levy considered learning industrial design earlier than pivoting to artwork, which is smart by way of the materiality right here but additionally explains why – as design editors – we could be so interested in it.
Ha Chong-Hyun, Conjunction 24-45, 2024
Oil on hemp material, 117 × 91 cm. Offered by Kukje Gallery. $230k
Monica Khemsurov and Jill Singer We really had a couple of choices in our preliminary favourites record that may fall below this style of vibrant, minimal abstraction, and it was laborious to slim down to at least one as a result of, as design journalists, we love super-functional furnishings whose formal language is expressed by way of small experiments with supplies, or moments the place supplies actually get to shine. Most of these work embody that concept, in artwork type. It’s so easy that you just’re left specializing in the depth of the color, the properties of the paint, and the precision of the brushstrokes, and the top result’s one thing that’s pleasing to have a look at. We don’t know a lot about this artist however we’d each stay with this.
Kishio Suga, Enclosed Intervals, 1990
Wooden, galvanized iron plate, 70.8 × 55.7 × 4 cm. Offered by Tomio Koyama Gallery. $50k – $100k
Monica Khemsurov and Jill Singer As a corollary to the reply above, we’d love a chunk by a pioneer of the Mono-ha motion. Kishio Suga made this piece later, in 1990, however it nonetheless makes use of supplies (on this case galvanized iron) in a extremely intentional method, and we like the way it begins, on the edges, to imitate a portray, however then drops into this void within the heart, so it’s like a portray/sculpture hybrid. Galvanized steel can also be fascinating as a result of it’s extremely industrial, and references trash cans above all else, however then introduced this manner you’ll be able to actually see the sweetness in its texture.
Francisco Brennand, A Mulher do faraó, 1998
Vitrified ceramics, 94 × 45.5 × 14.25 cm. Offered by Andrew Edlin Gallery. $60k
Jill Singer Is that this piece presupposed to be humorous? I hope so as a result of it made me chortle out loud. I really like lumpy ceramics with faces, in addition to sculptures of physique elements, and with this one you get two faces and a few butts thrown in for good measure. There’s some form of liquid dripping from the highest, which makes the frowny face seem like he stabbed the opposite man and is standing victorious on his head, although that facial features is something however triumphant. Including to the bizarreness of all of it is that the piece’s identify, translated from Portuguese, is ‘the pharaoh’s spouse’. I actually do not know what’s happening right here and I must know extra!
Wanda Pimentel, Untitled, from ‘The Path to the Superhuman Tie’ sequence, 1967
China ink on paper, 60 × 47.5 cm. Offered by Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel. Value on software
Monica Khemsurov I had by no means heard of Wanda Pimintel earlier than exploring the Frieze Viewing Room — what I really like about Frieze! — however I’m truthfully shocked it’s the one choose I had from the Nineteen Fifties/’60s as a result of that tends to be the period I gravitate in direction of, particularly in relation to summary portray. With this one I discovered the stripes and the ft actually hanging at first, however the description is why I included it right here: Pimintel’s work ‘depict home life in city Brazli from a feminine standpoint’, and so they typically embody furnishings, objects or, as on this case, architectural particulars. Design combined with feminist commentary: doesn’t get higher than that!
About Sight Unseen
Based in 2009, Sight Unseen is a web based journal for design and the visible arts, with a give attention to impartial makers working outdoors conventional disciplinary boundaries. Sight Unseen co-founders Monica Khemsurov and Jill Singer are modern design consultants, freelance writers, curators and consultants. Khemsurov is a contributing editor for T: The New York Instances Type Journal in addition to the founding father of the inventive {hardware} showroom Petra, whereas Singer’s writing has appeared in PIN-UP, New York, T Journal, W, and extra. Each stay and work in New York Metropolis.
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Principal picture: Ha Chong-Hyun, Conjunction 24-45 (element), 2024. Oil on hemp material, 117 × 91 cm. Courtesy: Kukje Gallery
