Giles Round at ICA

Native Londoner Giles Round creates sculptures and assemblages that resemble the confounding models of a minimalist stage set designer and his work is currently being shown at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts. Rectilinear frames evoke the woodwork of Donald Judd, twisting in space to create volumes into which he introduces monochromatic panels, lights and typographic studies. Like other minimalist artists before him, Round appropriates the …

Kittiwat Unarrom: Bread Body Parts

Since 2006 Thai artist Kittiwat Unarrom (whose family also runs a bakery) has used dough as his medium to sculpt gruesome renditions of hand, feet, heads, torsos and other body parts. The results are unnervingly realistic with eyes, lips and other details constructed out of cashews, raisins and the like. A lack of hair and blood-like glazes make the work all the more creepy. Sold …

Lucas Isawa: Koinobori

By combining traditional Japanese Carp-shaped wind socks with paper lanterns, artist When walking through a room full of them, as I did right before his exhibit closed at the Museu de Casa Brasileira in São Paulo this past week, I got the amazingly surreal feeling of swimming through water, watching all these delicate fish silently twist to and fro in response to the slightest of …