Larry Clark
Mike Kelley: Tulsa was the first photographic work I ever saw that realistically depicted the drug scene. It shocked me…
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Damien Hirst
A glass full of bloodstained water in which some little fish are dying / a page of typing torn into…
Moving In. Eight contemporary african artists
originally published in Flash Art International n°186, 1996 This discourse disturbs the gaps occupied by an articulate enunciatory practice that…
Sensation
The Young British Artists in “Sensation” have been growing up in public — the majority with their pants down. If they’ve…
Cities on the Move
A fascination with the socio-topographic complexity of the modern metropolis is not new in the 20th century. What is new…
Touch Me I’m Sick
Fear eats the soul Of the two gigantic Buddhas that dominated the Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan there remains nothing but…
Francesco Vezzoli
Massimiliano Gioni: You worked with Helmut Berger and Carlo di Palma, John Maybury and Marisa Berenson: an army of stars…
Vanessa Beecroft
Massimiliano Gioni: Let’s go right back to the beginning, to your first show, where you presented a book that listed…
Deimantas Narkevicius
Hans Ulrich Obrist: My first question is about your beginnings — where did your work start and how did you…
Killing Me Softly
LIFE: A USER’S MANUAL Karl J. Volk, New York: I am afraid that I do not know who Maurizio Cattelan…
Political Minimalism
During the 8th Istanbul Biennial in 2003 artist collective Xurban exhibited what appears to be a minimalist, untreated, rusty metal…
Painting Epiphany
Originally published in Flash Art International no. 200, May – June 1998. When the paintings of John Currin were first…
Reinhard Mucha
You cannot escape from the world more certainly than through art, and you cannot bind yourself to it more certainly…
Kutlug Ataman & Atom Egoyan
I arrive 30 minutes late. It is one of those mornings where you get out of the house on time…
Captions
From Flash Art no. 46 – 47, June 1974 I’ve been asked to write something about my work. So I’m…
The Trading Floor
Originally published in Flash Art International no. 264, January – February 2009. Following an invitation from Flash Art, Klaus Biesenbach,…