Fall 2019
September 30, 2019
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In this issue:
Lean on Me: Nairy Baghramian by Andrew Berardini
Nairy Baghramian’s sculptures are held together with surprising humor and spatial intelligence. Angular and sensual, animal and inanimate, ethereal yet freighted with the gravitas of physical presence, they sometimes reflect back on themselves as loose, provisional sketches.
All That Scrawl: Toward a Wild Writing by Travis Jeppesen
To Travis Jeppesen, scrawl is more than just scratches on a surface. It is, at the very least, both an attempt at and a theory of narrative—a theory that attempts to link narrative with the material means of its enunciation.
A Telepathic Understanding of Form: Nobuo Sekine by Hans Ulrich Obrist
In a posthumously published interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Nobuo Sekine overviews his long career and practice, which contended with abstract space and considered form, material, and space as malleable entities.
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Avery Singer discusses with Kathy Noble her approach to the languages, tools, and processes of painting, analyzing the medium’s position within institutions of artistic and cultural power.
David Ostrowski and Tenzing Barshee examine painting—its successful resistance to anachronism, and how the many waves of the post-digital turn don’t seem to undermine its factual contemporaneity.
John Gerrard in conversation with Defne Ayas explores his recent endeavors related to machines’ processing capabilities and neural networks.
“When my grandmother sees the baby, she becomes emotional, though she does not yet seem to understand who any of us are.” A short tale spanning birth, life, and death by Ren Ebel.
Moritz Scheper, Fiona McGovern, Megan Francis Sullivan, and Axel Wieder retrace Jill Johnston’s extensive contributions bridging various cultural fields—journalism, dance, and feminism—since the 1970s.
Jordan Wolfson met his artistic “unsung hero,” Eric Wesley, and chatted about symmetry and asymmetry; materials; and a certain attitude in decor as an “adult contemporary” gestalt.
Tyler Coburn and Elvia Wilk, whose practices both deal with materiality, embodiment, and speculative futures, discuss how new materialist philosophies have led them to reconsider very old viewpoints.
Alice Bucknell explores the practices of various contemporary artists who combine mysticism with advanced technology, enabling them to reimagine alternative futures through ancient belief systems.
Tidbits:
Cui Jie by Owen Hatherley; Monica Bonvicini by Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli; Hanne Lippard by Balthazar Lovay; Josh Kline by Michelle Kuo; Dash Snow by Allan Gardner; Becca Albee by Viola Angiolini; Driant Zeneli by Marina Fokidis; Ezra Orion by Francesco Spampinato; Birgit Jürgenssen by Kasia Redzisz; Tony Feher by Claudia Schmuckli; Zoya Cherkassky by Joshua Simon; At Eternity’s Gate by Mitch Speed; Louis Fratino by David Everitt Howe; Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys by Philipp Hindahl; Henrik Olesen by Pujan Karambeigi; Karen Kilimnik by Sabrina Tarasoff; Mire Lee by Alvin Li; Beatriz Olabarrieta by Gabriela Acha.
We are pleased to announce Mousse’s participation in Frieze London 2019, Reading Room (booth M2).
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