Sculpture Magazine: Margherita Raso

Interdisciplinary artist Margherita Raso has literally changed the atmosphere for “Vizio diForma,” an exhibition-cum-installation (on view through November 25, 2022) that marks her U.S. institutional debut. Inside a small room occupied by three new bodies of sculptural work, the temperature has been lowered to a consistently cool degree. Such a subtle, meaningful gesture is typical of Raso, who is delicately powerful in her plays with material, form, and space. “Vizio di Forma,” whose title (“Inherent Vice,” in translation) comes from a conservation term describing the tendency of materials to self-destruct, coalesces such gestures into a comprehensive meditation on time, decay, and display.