Gordon Matta-Clark
I’ll build a stairway to paradise With a new step every day I’m going to get there at any price…
Archive
(Etant-d’art pour locataire) – Conical Intersect, Paris, 1975
All earlier work used buildings neither as objects nor as art material but as uniquely cultural complexes in a…
Remarks on installations and changes in time dimensions
Originally published in Flash Art no. 162 January/February 1992. The farsightedness with which Weil analyzes the then-nascent 1990s is indicative…
In memory of Christo Vladimirof Javacheff (1935-2020)
Flash Art remembers Christo Vladimirof Javacheff (1935-2020) through archival layouts of the 70s on the realization of the project and…
Arte Povera 1967-1987. An Indirect continuity runs down through Antiform and Arte povera to intertextuality and the "weak" relativistic subject of the 1980s
Originally published in Flash Art International no. 137 November-December 1987 Among the many histories of Italian art in the…
In memory of Germano Celant: Arte povera. Notes on a guerrilla war
Flash Art mourns the loss of Germano Celant, critic, curator, theorist of the term “Arte povera”, of which the manifesto…
From Criticism to Complicity "Our approaching destination looks frighteningly familiar. We might have to find someplace else."
Peter Nagy: In what ways does this new work depart from or elaborate upon work done by the Pictures generation…
The (In)Animate World of Rebecca Horn
It is with immense sadness that we acknowledge the loss of Rebecca Horn, a pivotal and vital figure in the…
Vastness in Flatland
From Flash Art International No. 189 July–August–September 1996 Vija Celmins (b. 1938; lives in New York) was born in Latvia…
Yes, Difference Again
From Flash Art no.143, November – December 1988. With a new introduction by the author Friday, 2 December 2016: I…
Do You Love Me?
Puppies Puppies: What do you think about my work? Nancy Lupo: Before I ever saw the work in person I…
Jimmie Durham: Centering the American World
Originally published in Flash Art no. 312, January – February 2017. Standing before the US House of Representatives, Jimmie Durham,…
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
The following interview originally appeared in Flash Art International No. 161 (November-December 1991) and was conducted by Robert Nickas, an…
Martin Kippenberger
From Flash Art International No. 156 January-February 1991 Jutta Koether: We ought to talk about the work you’ve produced in…
Gino De Dominicis
From Flash Art International No. 131 December 1986 That a symbol can mean one thing and at the same time…
Gordon Matta-Clark
From Flash Art International No. 90-91 June-July 1979 I never used to think too much about Gordon’s work. I used…