Flash Art International no. 296
May–June 2014
We are pleased to announce that the May–June 2014 issue of Flash Art International, featuring the Top 100 Galleries selected by artists, is now available.
In this issue:
Kevin McGarry looks into the critically engaged, distanced and prolific practice of Xu Zhen and his shadow organization MadeIn Company.
“What Xu Zhen is always selling is in some way the shell for a void: the ever-expanding oblivion where art, commerce and humanity all seem to lose themselves in one another.”
–Kevin McGarry
Hannah Weinberger talks to Balthazar Lovay about her sound and video works and the porosity between them and the exhibition framework.
Dena Yago highlights Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin‘s movement between identities and professional positions.
“Inez and Vinoodh manage to relegate the heroic to the mundane, highlighting the banality of glory. This is the high comedy that keeps their work subversive within the realm of fashion. They identify the elements of fashion photography and dress them up in drag.”
–Dena Yago
Richard Birkett investigates the internalized contradictions of a generation embodied by Jordan Wolfson‘s work.
“Wolfson’s adoption of animation and animatronics locates this externalization within structural ambivalence; the ability to warp, inflate, distort and fantasize offers a fitting testimony to the splitting of contemporary subjecthood.”
–Richard Birkett
The New Uncanny
Michele D’Aurizio talks to Bladee, Hua Hsu and Ilja Karilampi about power and powerlessness in today’s rap culture.
Dave Miko, Kerstin Brätsch and John Newsom reflect on the legacy of Sigmar Polke.
Spotlight
Richard Hamilton by Roger Cook
Art Biz
Bruno Brunnet / Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin by Donatien Grau
Adroit
Yang Li by Daniele Balice
Brand New
Public Fiction by Noura Wedell
Reviews
Korakrit Arunanondchai at MoMA PS1, New York; Borna Sammak at JTT, New York; Michael E. Smith at The Power Station, Dallas; Liquid Crystal Palace at Honor Fraser, Los Angeles; Buck Ellison at Ratio 3, San Francisco; Emily Sundblad at Gaga Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; Camille Henrot at Chisenhale Gallery, London; Taocheng Wang at Johan Berggren, Malmö; Lisa Lapinski at Johann König, Berlin; Camille Blatrix at Balice Hertling, Paris; Daniel Faust at Norma Mangione, Turin; Adriana Lara at Indipendenza, Rome; Mona Hatoum at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha; Aesthetic Bind | Floating World at Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai; Lee Kit at Mobile M+, Hong Kong.
