February–March 2016
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In this issue: Magalí Arriola on Sunset Décor; Sabrina Tarasoff writes about Decadence and De-facement; Eva Fabbris interviews Marc Camille Chaimowicz; a conversation between Jesús Fuenmayor and Lothar Baumgarten; The Public Life of Imagination by João Ribas; The Pros and the Cons: Christian Jankowski and Ceal Floyer; Chus Martínez: Forget About the Middle Class. And much more!
A voyage from the Palais Garnier to the practices of Barbara Bloom and Joseph Holtzman, from Sir John Soane’s Museum to Casa Mollino and Louise Lawler. Sabrina Tarasoff investigates design, architectural decor, and the emerging trend that links domesticity to contemporary art.
Eva Fabbris, in an in-depth conversation with Paris-born artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz, explores the intersection between the history of design and culture of rebellion through the constant visual and spatial reinvention of private dwelling places. Places replete with existential echoes.
The artists Than Hussein Clark and Charlie Billingham have known each other for years now. In “The Recognitions,” they visit museums together, sketch objects from each exhibition, and then record the unpredictable conversations that arise from seeing the works: the topics include–but are not limited to–abstraction, the Victorians and queerness.
What are the latest approaches to dealing with artists’ materials, museum collections and archives? Giaco Schiesser, from the standpoint of the “aesthetics of production,” traces the desires, needs and necessities of the contemporary artists, curators and architects who endlessly rearrange their material. Jennifer Allen, from the standpoint of the “aesthetics of reception,” very concretely shows the effects of new devices such as impermanent collections on the viewer’s body.
Is there a starting point, something like a Big Bang, in the formation of a canon? Writer and curator Jens Hoffmann investigates the subject of influence, through the mythologies of seven artists: Sanya Kantarovsky, Ryan Gander, Jac Leirner, Camille Henrot, Cheyney Thompson, Rayyane Tabet and Liz Magor.
Magalí Arriola revisits the American Frontier, the legacy of the Wild West in later forms of colonialism and in the work of some contemporary artists: five tableaux that lead from an exhibition to a film and an intermission.
From his early photographic work of the 1960s through the 18 months he spent living with the Yãnomãmi population of the Orinoco region, Lothar Baumgarten talks with Jesús Fuenmayor about his interest in ethnography, his visual essays, the relationship between artistic and political engagement in his practice.
What gives monuments, statues, and sculptures so much value that they have become targets for the violence and propaganda of international terror? Curator João Ribas discusses the denigration—but also the veneration—of images in contemporary iconoclasm, and the pivotal role of what is public in the construction of a mediated reality.
Robert Grosvenor opens up with Hans Ulrich Obrist about growing up in Arizona, where he encountered the work of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, about his time spent in France and in the army, and about his spatial installations that crossed the boundaries between art, engineering and architecture.
Chus Martínez proposes overcoming the book metaphor in exhibition-making and returning to experimental means of production, forgetting about the middle class as the universal recipient of cultural agendas. Furthermore, Martínez explains the emergence of the “metabolic age,” where changes ensue in an osmotic rather than conscious fashion.
In her first interview for a magazine, British artist Ceal Floyer talks with Christian Jankowski about how she operates in the fields of conceptual art, film and installation: transforming the familiar into the extraordinary, with subtle ease.
Nice to Meet You:
Playground minimalism, old car parts that cast shadows on photo paper, the interlocked weirdness of modern materials and shapely living bodies: Andrew Berardini welcomes the world of Nevine Mahmoud.
Niels Olsen and Fredi Fischli talk with Henning Fehr and Philipp Rühr about the appropriation of old avant-garde techniques, slow cinema, ’60s counterculture and techno music scenes. Playfulness and radicalism in the art of Henning Fehr and Philipp Rühr.
Domenick Ammirati delivers a surreal, cynical tale of what’s going on in the NYC art world these days, and the ways some new art is rooted in highly traditional, anti-conceptual ideas.
Josephine Graf in conversation with Jessi Reaves: the artist builds sculptures that are chairs, sofas, shelves, and tables, and vice versa. These works disregard divisions between the functional and the aesthetic, while simultaneously looking back over the history of that binary.
Brazilian-born Lucas Arruda, here in conversation with Kiki Mazzucchelli, deals with archetypes of landscape: derived from fragments hidden in his memory or images seen on the outskirts of São Paulo, his paintings are more concerned with the representation of light and atmosphere than with actual physical spaces.
Ana Vaz: the badlands, the Anthropocene project, Clarice Lispector, coyotes, and jaguars meet and mate in the artist’s words and visions. Filipa Ramos spoke with the young Brazilian artist and filmmaker.
Agnieszka Gratza oversees a conversation between two generations of artists with a shared passion for filmmaking. Lis Rhodes and Aura Satz discuss their work, their influences, and feminism.
What could keep an artist and his assistant together? Production costs and Vietnamese food? Smartassery and vulnerability? Thought balloons and failure? Michael Turner reveals it to us in a short fictional story.
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