Tag: rattan

Yutaka Sone in ‘Tiger Tiger’ at Salon94 Bowery

Paintings of jungles, tropical fruit, and monkeys and sculptures of snakes and strange flora make ‘Tiger, Tiger’ at Salon94 Bowery one of the lushest shows open in New York this summer. Yutaka Sone’s folk-art inflected rattan and steel palm in the foreground sets the laid-back tone. (On the Lower East Side through August 21st).

Installation view of Tiger, Tiger at Salon94 Bowery, July 2015. (foreground: Yutaka Sone, Tropical Composition/Traveler’s Palm #1, rattan and steel, 143 x 165 x 24 inches, 2011.

Susana Solano at Jack Shainman Gallery

Jack Shainman Gallery brings together sculptures from the past twenty-six years by major Spanish artist Susana Solano this month, including these evocative rattan forms, which suggest miniaturized housing (foreground) or a gargantuan thimble (back).  (In Chelsea through Jan 11th.  Check website for holiday season opening hours.)  

Susana Solano, Bura III (foreground), rattan, 2004-2005.  Bura II (background), painted iron and rattan, 2001-2005.