Enwezor has conceived the Biennale as a sequence of intersecting «filters» that compel us to look backwards as much as forwards, in a spirit of pensiveness more than of zeal. (apollo-magazine.com)
Scully brings together two art historical strains; European lyric abstraction has often proved insubstantial, but by coming to America, Scully merged this country's predilection for emotion as a vivid, even structural, component of art with a muted pensiveness he brought from his origins. (brooklynrail.org)
Phyllida Barlow's massive work supplants the brashness of youth with a seasoned pensiveness, but her forms are no less audacious. (hyperallergic.com)