Issue 40 out now:
Art under Capitalism
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Dear friends,
The heat is on, and our summer issue is out.
Themed Art under Capitalism, the magazine includes an acerbic and revealing conversation about the bleak future of art between curator Daniel Baumann and dealer Gavin Brown, who started his gallery in downtown Manhattan in 1993 and soon became one of the cutting-edge figures of the New York scene. Italian left-wing theorist Tiziana Terranova talks with Stefan Heidenreich about living in an age of debt, German critic Kolja Reichert reflects on how the ascendance of art is a symptom of the devaluation of money, while writer Jon Leon interviews LA artist Alex Israel about nostalgia, style, and taste. The cult curator Bob Nickas thinks back on the career of Laurie Parsons, who quit the art world soon after joining it in the 1990s. And Adam Kleinman profiles Austrian artist Rainer Ganahl and his fascination for left-wing figures like Lenin, Mao, and Marx.
In addition, Spike’s new online editor Timo Feldhaus writes about Jordan Wolfson‘s hugely expensive and notorious dancing robot (Female figure) 2014, and writer Michele D’Aurizio pitches Curzio Malaparte’s novel The Skin as a lesson in humanity and suffering, while American science-fiction author Mark von Schlegell contributes a new short story about an unstoppable horde of children, and Paul Maenz remembers the legendary but very short exhibition Dies alles Herzchen wird einmal dir gehören that took place one evening in Frankfurt in 1967.
Also: Chisenhale Gallery Director Polly Staple presents her Curator’s Key, Gustave Courbet’s A Burial at Ornans, Spike editor Alexander Scrimgeour writes on the experimental political economy of the Artist Pension Trust, Andrew M. Goldstein and Homa Zarghamee puzzle over the buzz of buying art, and Amsterdam-based design and research studio Metahaven lists its Artist’s Favourites. And Peter Pakesch pays his respects to one of Austria’s greatest painters, Maria Lassnig, who passed away in May.
This time, artists Nina Beier and Ashley Bickerton, consultant Alex Hunter, curators Maximilian Geymüller and Chris Sharp contribute to our much-loved section Seduction or The Things We Like. And our columnists The Pfaff Brothers are marking time with sheets of paper.
Reviews from…
Vienna: Mladen Stilinović (Galerie Martin Janda) by Christian Hoeller, Rabih Mroué (Wiener Festwochen) by Ines Kleesattel, Attention Economy (Kunsthalle Wien) by Christian Egger, Damien Hirst/Arnulf Rainer (Arnulf Rainer Museum) by Nina Schedlmayer
Salzburg: Ana Mendieta (Museum der Moderne) by Ines Gebetsroither
Berlin: 8th Berlin Biennale by Raimar Stange, Chris Martin (KOW) by Elvia Wilk, Ned Vena (Société) by Kirsa Geiser
Munich: Matthew Barney (Haus der Kunst) by Daniela Stöppel
Basel: Paul Chan (Schaulager) by Simon Baier
Bern: Shimabuku (Kunsthalle Bern) by Daniel Baumann
Warsaw: A few grams of red, yellow & blue (CCA) by Agata Pyzik
Eindhoven: Hito Steyerl (Van Abbemuseum) by Daniel Herleth
London: Haim Steinbach (Serpentine Gallery) by Oliver Basciano
New York: Whitney Biennial by Tim Griffin
Mexicali: Elias Fontes Art Collection by Chris Kraus
Have a nice summer! We’ll be back in September with a very special issue—it’s Spike’s tenth anniversary, hooray.
Spike 40 will be available at newsstands outside of Europe in approximately one week. Please be patient, or order it directly from us.
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