Flash Art International no. 297
July–August–September 2014
We are pleased to announce that the July–August–September 2014 issue of Flash Art International is out now.
In this issue:
Karen Archey discusses the daily celebration of life and love in the work of Dorothy Iannone.
“For Iannone, it is precisely the subjective, biographical and narrative approach to her practice that continues to be so revelational. This modus operandi, so respectfully counter to the normal authoritative, self-aggrandizing and pseudo-cerebral voice that still dominates artistic discourse today, is also that which probably sidelined the artist for so many decades.”
–Karen Archey
Ruairiadh O’Connell speaks with Darren Flook about waiting, honesty and hope in his artistic process.
Questionnaire
In anticipation of the coming academic year, we examine the current state of art education, asking the directors, presidents and coordinators of 12 major art schools across the globe to describe their vision for art education, particularly in terms of how their program establishes a balance between knowledge and know-how.
With contributions by Bard College / Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA; Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design / Jerusalem, Israel; CalArts / Valencia, CA, USA; Central Academy of Fine Arts / Beijing, China; Columbia University School of the Arts / New York, USA; École de recherche graphique (ERG) / Brussels, Belgium; FAAP / São Paulo, Brazil; HEAD / Geneva, Switzerland; Royal College of Art / London, UK; Städelschule / Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Tokyo University of the Arts / Tokyo, Japan; Yale University School of Art / New Haven, CT, USA
The New Uncanny
Gary Indiana talks to Lodovico Pignatti Morano about the difficulty of depicting our ugly reality.
“What interests me in life are the secret things. What I see as the whole process of the world now is the elimination of all that wonder and mystery of the unknown. Even writing — you’d read Joseph Conrad or any writer that you admired, and it let you look through a keyhole at something that was secret, that not everybody knew about.”
–Gary Indiana
Maurizio Cattelan asks Francesco Vezzoli to see himself as if he was…
“If I were one of my works, I would be the next one. I am very detached from the works out there; and I kind of blame myself for being as such. For me there is only ‘one work,’ which is not necessarily a work of art, and it is my life. Therefore I can only project myself into the future, into the next project.”
–Francesco Vezzoli
Edward Sanderson explore the disjointed, ritualistic and obsessive activities “taking place” in Fang Lu‘s videos.
Spotlight
Ettore Spalletti / MAXXI, Rome; GAM, Turin; MADRE, Naples by Michele D’Aurizio
Art Biz
Paula Cooper / New York by Donatien Grau
Brand New
Basim Magdy by Antonia Alampi
Reviews
Other Primary Structures at The Jewish Museum, New York; Sanya Kantarovsky at Casey Kaplan, New York; Virginia Overton at Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; Little Messages for Modern Shut-Ins at Aran Cravey, Los Angeles; Stanya Kahn at Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles; Postcodes: Soft at Casa do Povo, São Paulo; Play What’s Not There at Raven Row, London; World Music at Carlos Ishikawa, London; He An at Daniel Templon, Brussels; Pierre Klossowski at Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin; Anne Imhof at Deborah Schamoni, Munich; Georgia Sagri at Kunsthalle Basel; Pierre Ardouvin and Przemek Matecki at Progress Gallery, Paris; Chen Zhen at Galerie Perrotin, Paris; Robert Overby—Works 1969–1987 at GAMeC, Bergamo; Charbel-joseph H. Boutros at Grey Noise, Dubai; Yang Fudong at ShanghART, Shanghai; Ai Shinohara at Gallery MoMo, Tokyo
