Max Renkel’s second solo show at the Galleria Lorcan O’Neill Roma unveils five new paintings, each of which examines the female figure through uniform colors and an absence of shadow.

Rachel Whiteread’s works are pieces of domestic furniture – chairs, stools, cabinets, and shelves – which support or contain cast cardboard boxes, closed with tape and ready to be moved.

In these works, Down Brown avoids the heroics of classical portraiture, while employing formal craftsmanship that overtly alludes to both the rigidity and beauty of ancient Greek sculpture.

Kiki Smith presents sculptures in bronze, iron, and porcelain, as an homage to the female spirit, as well as drawings beautifully rendered in pencil and coloured with the artist’s blood.