Dear readers,
Coinciding with the start of summer we are pleased to announce the release of our new issue 36. In our headlining contribution curators Aaron Moulton and Carson Chan discuss their respective projects in the regional context of the Mormon-dominated Mountain West, US, and a roundtable discussion articulates the origins of Speculative Realism and the consequences it poses for contemporary art.
Then Karen Archey looks at the poignant, subversive and darkly witty practice of playfully undefinable Californian artist Lutz Bacher; Raimar Stange appraises the self-professed political impotence of “ready-made-artists” Claire Fontaine, and Joanna Fiduccia investigates Austrian painter Maria Lassnig‘s decades-long occupation with bodily representation and the internal and external forces that complicate it.
Tobias Madison introduces his Artist’s Favourites, Nav Haq gives us the Curator’s Key with Jeremy Deller‘s Acid Brass (1997), Pablo Larios reports on gallery Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler stable of post-internet artists, while Alex Kitnick observes how Harmony Korine‘s new film Spring Breakers depicts a generation of post-political terror.
Oliver Basciano looks at David Shields’ book How literature saved my life, in which the lines between fiction, autobiography and art criticism are blurred, while Peter Osborne‘s proclamations of a new philosophy of contemporary art in Anywhere or Not at All, get assessed by John Chilver.
Exhibition reviews of The Insides are on the Outside at Casa de Vidro, Såo Paulo, by Oliver Basciano; Martin Kippenberger at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin by Raimar Stange; Gallery Weekend Berlin by Piper Marshall; Unruhe der Form at Secession / Academy of Fine Arts / MuseumsQuartier, Vienna by Jakob Neulinger; Mierle Laderman Ukeles at Grazer Kunstverein by Denise Sumi; and the Christine Brooke-Rose Symposium at London’s Royal College of Art by Sally O’Reilly, and so much more.
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