Flash Art International No. 278
May June Issue 2011
Flash Art International 278 features two covers:
Lygia Clark and Thomas Hirschhorn
News Highlights:
Matthew Schum on Artur Barrio, in anticipation of the artist representing Brazil at the forthcoming Venice Biennale
Luis Pérez-Oramas talks to Mariola Alvarez about the next Bienal de São Paulo
Nancy Atakan presents SALT, Istanbul’s new contemporary art center
Jenine McGaughran on London BFI‘s timely programming of Phil Collins‘”Marxism Today”
Christopher Hart Chambers on the rise of artist-led art fairs
Karen Archey reports on e-commerce platforms
Yulia Tikhonova recounts past, present and future actions by Russian activist group Voina
Helena Kontova introduces the forthcoming Prague Biennale 5 in an interview by Fabiana Bellio
In his second gallerist’s page, Donatien Grau meets with Hannah Barry
Marina Abramović inaugurates her artist’s column addressing the issue of artistic legacies
Flash Art May-June includes Focus Brazil:
Brazilian Matrix: Ivo Mesquita, Adriano Pedrosa, Renata Lucas and Fernanda D’Agostino map the contemporary art landscape
Bernardo Paz discusses the beautiful and anomalous Inhotim foundation with Luisa Duarte
Lygia Clark‘s intensely personal practice is discussed at the interface of her own journaling on her art by Felipe Scovino
Giancarlo Hannud surveys Brazilian painting in the work of Rodrigo Andrade, Beatriz Milhazes, Leda Catunda and Daniel Senise.
Features:
Kay Heymer on Sherrie Levine‘s installations
Interviewer Grant Watson on the tapestries and histories running through the work of Goshka Macuga
LA’s Vishal Jugdeo and Elad Lassry discuss Jugdeo’s video and sculpture
Renzo Martens‘s Enjoy Poverty looked at by Yulia Tikhonova
Eliza Williams considers Keeping It Real at Whitechapel Gallery
Before Venice:
Chiara Bertola interviews Chistian Boltanski on his early life, art and death
Thomas Hirschhorn discusses art, politics and amethyst with Matthew Schum
Brand New highlighting artists:
Cinthia Marcelle
Marcius Galan
Dane Mitchell
Anne-Julie Raccoursier
Reviews:
David Hammons; Joe Bradley; Unpainted Painting; Judith Hopf; Analia Saban; Eberhard Havekost; Douglas Gordon; Morgan Fisher; Fiona Banner; Urs Lüthi; Peter Rösel; Merlin Carpenter; Karin Sander; Dominique Petitgand; Rory Pilgrim; Evren Tekinoktay; Richard Hughes; Un Altro Romantico; Valie Export; Rabih Mroué; Asier Mendizábal; Nicolas Gambaroff, Michael Krebber, R.H. Quaytman, Blake Rayne; José Bechara; Marcelo Moscheta; Detanico Lain; Antoni Muntadas.
Covers of Flash Art International, May June, 2011:
Thomas Hirschhorn, Too Too-Much Much, 2010. Installation view at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium, 2010. Courtesy Chantal Crousel, Paris. Photo: Romain Lopez.
Lygia Clark, Objetos Relacionais, 1976–84. Cotton, cloth, seam, beach sand, mattress, plastic, air polystyrene balls, a woolen blanket, veil, panty hoses, tennis balls, table tennis balls, stones and broken thin shells, plastic bags, seeds, net, rubber tube, water, inflated bag and cvardboard tube, variable dimensions. Courtesy Cultural Association “The World of Lygia Clark,” Rio de Janeiro.
