Issue No.270
January – February 2010
In this issue’s news:
Nicola Trezzi reviews Performa 09, the big performative event that took over New York City in October. Ann Martens talks about Los Angeles’ Pacific Design Center, hosting the new Contemporary Art Fair as well as new galleries’ spaces. Emanuele Fontanesi reviews the second edition of Sphères, a collaborative project organized by Galleria Continua “Le Moulin”. Yulia Tikhonova interviews Maria Baibakova, founder of Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow. Davide Quadrio interviews Chinese artist Cao Fei on her project “RMB city”. Fabio Cypriano reviews the 31° Panorama of Brazilian Art, São Paulo, while Kerstin Winking reviews Bamako Encounters, the 8th Biennial of African Photography. Andrea Wiarda and Patricia Pulles report on the 1st Former West Congress at BAK (basis voor actuele kunst), Utrecht.
Features:
Hans Haacke, the German conceptual artist who has been living in New York since the mid ’60s, is interviewed by LA-based artist Sam Durant, who shares with Haacke an artistic engagement with history and politics.
Paris–based collective Claire Fontaine contributes a series of aphorisms based on the concept of the “readymade artist”.
“I’ve always thought of Tacita Dean as being the Richard Serra of vision: her images are as dense and heavy as gigantic sculpture”. Massimiliano Gioni discusses the classical and serene composure of Tacita Dean‘s films.
Samuele Menin engages in a conversation with Diego Perrone and Simone Berti, focusing on what challeges collective exhibitions represent, what really matters for them in art, and what being a young Italian artist means today.
As a connoisseur of the multi-faceted practice of Kirstine Roepstorff, Detta von Jouanne introduces the artist’s work — a dangerous mixture between information and glamour.
Hans Ulrich Obrist and Pierre Huyghe talk to David Lamelas, starting with his early time in Buenos Aires in the ’60s, through the later works broadcasted on TV.
American artist Matthew Day Jackson and director of the Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Bill Arning, share their experience at MIT, delivering a different understanding and experience of the culture of the ’70s.
Vladiya Mihaylova presents Nedko Solakov‘s artistic interventions at the Kunstmuseums of Bonn and St. Gallen, as well as in occasion of the artist’s first retrospective in Bulgaria at the Sofia City Art Gallery.
Pirkko Rathgeber introduces to our readers the Udo and Anette Brandhorst Collection.
In Flash Art’s Spotlight, Saatchi Gallery’s exhibition Abstract America is reviewed by Stella Santacatterina.
Mark Leckey In The Long Tail is the performance based work that Sarina Basta reviews for Global Art.
This issue’s Brand New section includes: Sopheap Pich; Eva Kotatkova; Fabian Marti; Sean Micka; Carey Young; Ester Partegàs.
Reviews:
Anselm Reyle, Lisa Oppenheim, Rebecca Warren; Double Touch, Bonnie Camplin, Barbara Kruger, Duncan Campbell, N.S. Harsha and Chen Chien–Jen, Tony Conrad, Wieland Speck and Shelly Silver, Florian Meisenberg, Melodies & Rock/Copyright, Huang Yong Ping, Clegg & Guttmann, Gilberto Zorio, Radical Autonomy, Fuck Young, Rebecca Horn.
Flash Reviews:
Spencer Finch, Barthélémy Toguo, Scott McFarland, Katy Moran, Heimo Zobernig, Pavel Pepperstein, Bingyi, Erwin Wurm, Michele Chiossi, Kevin Yates, Theo Michael, Haris Epaminonda.
Cover artists of this issue are Tacita Dean, Claire Fontaine, Hans Haacke.
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