Viewing Mika Rottenberg, Vibrant Matter & Cindy Sherman The Women at Hauser & Wirth Menorca

If you’re in the Balearics this summer this double bill at Hauser & Wirth Menorca is worth a stop: side-by-side solo exhibitions that brings two contemporary art world titans to the pretty, uninhabited setting of Illa del Rei – ten minutes by boat from the port of Mahon in Menorca.

Both Mika Rottenberg and Cindy Sherman are known for their audacious image-making. Here, Rottenberg presents new and recent sculptures and video installations in Vibrant Matter, her first solo exhibition in Spain. The glowing Lampshares sculptures are a result of working with Inner City Green Team and Gary Dusek in New York, collecting and sorting the city’s waste. The sculptures include carved bittersweet vine and reclaimed plastic, reworked into beguiling, twisting mushroom-like shapes in Rottenberg’s signature bright palette.

Cindy Sherman’s The Women is the artist’s first show in Spain since the 1990s, curated by Tanya Barson. It features work spanning most of her career, starting with the more recent large-scale fashion and magazine commissions – like a spread created for Pop magazine using clothes from the Chanel archives. Working its way back through images that are eerily familiar and slowly get smaller the shows ends where Sherman began, while still a student at Buffalo in the 1970s, using makeshift props and staging that show how far she’s come.