& a poster by Gelatin
Dear readers,
Our autumn issue has just come out, featuring two critical views on documenta 13 by French curator Nicolas Bourriaud and American writer Fionn Meade.
Pier Luigi Tazzi, Gelatin and Stefan Ratibor reminisce about the legacy left by Austrian artist Franz West.
Carson Chan speaks with Berlin-based performance artist Christian Falsnaes, Joanna Fiduccia digs through the kisses, dirty jokes and serious politics of American painter Nicole Eisenman‘s latest works, and Fionn Meade rediscovers the hallucinatory power of Oskar Fischinger‘s abstract animations of the 1920s.
In the sixth part of our series exploring multiple roles in the art world, Tal Beery makes a case for the “activist artist.”
Grazer Kunstverein’s new director, Krist Gruijthuijsen, writes about a work that has influenced him: Ben Kinmont’s On becoming something else (2009); and Korean artist Haegue Yang presents five artists whose works interest her: Jimmie Durham, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Damián Ortega, Yiso Bahc and Beom Kim.
Karen Archey talks to Margaret Lee, co-founder of the gallery 47 Canal, and Filipa Ramos interviews Marina Fokidis, director of Kunsthalle Athena.
Nick Currie observes the spectre of communism haunting European art biennials like Manifesta 9, while John Beeson trawls through obscure recordings on the trail of the elusive ethnomusicologist Arthur Boto Conley. Also, Jon Leon bids farewell to Los Angeles.
Our columnists the Pfaff Brothers report on a London citizen who spooned up his backyard because he loved the taste of the city’s soil.
Including reviews of Manifesta 9 by Andreas Schlaegel, Ryan Gander at Lisson Gallery in London by Patricia Ellis, Slavs and Tatars at MoMA in New York by Jon Leon, Laurent Grasso at Jeu de Paume in Paris by Charles Barachon, Zanele Muholi at Stevenson gallery in Cape Town by Daniel Baumann, Philippe Parreno at Fondation Beyeler by Simon Baier, Wilfredo Prieto at HangarBicocca in Milan, Charlotte Prodger and Jason Loebs at Essex Street in New York, among others.
& Poster
Inside the magazine, you’ll find a poster by the Austrian artist group Gelatin.
The signed digital print version on paper, titled 2 Epiphanien (75 x 55 cm / edition of 25), is available for 300 Euros.
Get your copy of the magazine, a subscription, or one of the signed posters here.
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