At her current exhibition at Maison Gerard in New York, Osanna Visconti runs her hand along a cast-bronze bamboo screen, pointing out the irregularities she had intentionally preserved because they add “authenticity and poetry,” she says. “It makes it feel alive.”
A nearby mirror is framed by a beautiful cacophony of cast magnolia branches while the limbs of a monumental magnolia light fixture unfurl across a neighboring wall. “My pieces are heavy but I try to make them look light,” says Visconti, during the opening, which marks her first solo show in the U.S. “You can see that these pieces are made by a woman, I think, because when you look at them, they seem light, but they are very strong and stable.” Learn more about Osanna and she images of her work, here.