Eva Rothschild's Playful Sculptures at Kaufmann Repetto

Eva Rothschild's solo exhibition at Kaufmann Repetto in Milan, 2017, presents a series of works that revisit art historical forms. The show features arches, object-ruins, displays, and sculptural compositions in a playful and questioning manner. Rothschild (Dublin, 1971) incorporates personal episodes into her narratives. The two canvases titled Halloween evoke a sinister yet festive atmosphere. T.K.O. is a boxing bag blending 1980s textures and colors, resting on an aluminum base. Sweetness is a resin bath made from her children's clothes, placed on a polyurethane cube. Family references also appear in modular language and formal confidence, with deconstructions and assemblies that reformulate archetypal art forms. The arch—Europa and Bold Europa—appears in two versions: one polychrome with horizontal monochromatic modules, another like a black rainbow. Ruins are polystyrene cubes covered in synthetic colors, composed totemically, with paint-stained cans at the base. The exhibition explores the crisis of representation through architectural and artistic aesthetics, highlighting sculpture's modern syntax, industrial design lineage, and the failures of representation. Rothschild's purist surfaces reveal the tautology of something that fails yet exists, mirroring human existential contradiction.