Ian Cofré
Ian Cofré is an independent curator, writer, and translator based in Brooklyn, NY. Often working collaboratively, he creates spaces for inquiry through exhibitions and programs that critically examine contemporary problems in an interdisciplinary manner. Recent projects include: Raimundo Edwards: Threshold (Kastanien Projektraum, Berlin, 2022) and Bronx Calling: The Fifth AIM Biennial, co-curated with Eva Mayhabal Davis (Bronx Museum, 2021–22).
The exhibition Martha Diamond: After Image at David Kordansky, is a tightly curated selection of eleven works and studies from the 1980s and early ’90s that, fittingly, opened on what would have been the artist’s eighty-first birthday.
Los Angeles based artist Amir Nikravan has taken a singular, pill-like form he encountered in Pasadena’s Stuart Building—a site originally known as the Stuart Pharmaceutical Company Office and Plant (1958)—and he’s given it a treatment of rupture and reconfiguration for Rational Design, his first solo show at Karg Gallery.
The first encounter with Rhi Anima, Paul Chan’s third solo exhibition at Greene Naftali, spanning both of the Chelsea gallery’s spaces, is in the outdoor entranceway, where an inflatable sprite, arms raised—not unlike the Air Dancer tube-men of suburban car lots—whacks the glass of a window and waves at passersby.
Eight years to the day from Lehman’s failure, artist and educator Michael Mandiberg debuted his current exhibition, FDIC Insured, which captures the extent of this financial unraveling in a clear-eyed site-specific installation tucked away in a vacant office on the 15th Floor of 40 Rector Street.
Imagine that a federal government decided to protect a national forest: would that justify a violent intervention against a group of people who were mining illegally?
