Kristi Cavataro

Info: Galerie Gisela Capitain is pleased to announce the second solo exhibition of new works by American artist Kristi Cavataro. Following her first solo exhibition at Zweigstelle Capitain V, Palazzo Degas, Naples, in 2024, her work will now be presented in Cologne for the first time. In Kristi Cavataro’s new body of work, form has begun to behave differently. What once appeared as modular systems–composed of repeating units–now thickens, bends, and tapers with a strange, urgency. They emerge without fixed identity, yet fully articulated, site-specific, body-aware, responsive. Her glass sculptures pull away from diagram or architecture, into something more fluid, sensuous, and alert. Cavataro works with soldered glass, a material often associated with containment–windows, partitions, ornaments. But here it behaves otherwise. It buckles, swells, strains against its joints. Some are made of transparent, colored glass that allows light to pass through; others are constructed from opaque glass that withholds any view of the interior. Her works neither depict images nor objects in the usual sense; rather, we look upon suggestions–forms that resist figuration while remaining charged with life. Location: St.-Apern-Str. 26, 50667 Cologne.