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This month in Artforum:
Openings: Alex Kitnick on Cameron Rowland:
“For Rowland, objects are inseparable from the systems they dwell in, just as systems are always inextricable from the stuff within them.”
–Alex Kitnick
Artforum presents an exclusive portfolio of the pioneering New York artist’s work in dance, painting, sculpture, and text—which was at the center of Minimalism and Conceptualism but remains little known:
“There’s often a witty openness to Castoro’s systems, a seam in her works through which the world comes in, disturbing any perfect order.”
–Prudence Peiffer
“For David, self-invention was inherently futuristic, linked to the notion of a disposable self.”
–Tony Oursler
Ben Vickers on the art of Ian Cheng:
“Cheng’s work performs a preemptive strike on the cultural landscape of everything you and I think we know.”
–Ben Vickers
Jordan Kantor on Jackson Pollock’s late work:
”The late works, with their compartmentalized images regularly placed in strips, look as if they had come off a conveyor belt: iterations from the Pollock painting machine.”
–Jordan Kantor
Richard Deming on Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957:
“Everyone connected to Black Mountain College was forever marked by that encounter.”
–Richard Deming
Kenneth Frampton on the architecture of Álvaro Siza:
“Siza’s buildings were constructed with the participation of the users themselves, in a marked departure from the top-down, rigidly hierarchical processes that defined much of postwar urban design and architecture.”
–Kenneth Frampton
George E. Lewis on Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Klang:
“While Pierre Boulez eventually abandoned total serialism, Stockhausen saw the practice as a kind of ‘acoustic theology.’”
–George E. Lewis
And: Julian Rose on the new Met Breuer, Carlo McCormick on Martin Wong, Jeffrey Weiss on Revisions—Zen for Film, and Graham Bader on Benjamin H. D. Buchloh’s Formalism and Historicity
Plus: Jackie Neudorf on Porches, Douglas Wolk on Adrian Tomine’s Killing and Dying, Jonathan Rosenbaum on Robert J. Flaherty’s Moana with Sound, Zehra Jumabhoy on Silent Explosion: Ivor Davies and Destruction in Art, and artist Magali Reus shares her Top Ten
