Gelatin Vibrations
Bice Curiger’s “Illuminations” describes contemporary art as a recursive modernism that wraps pre- and post- together in one curatorial swoop.…
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Signature and Style
Anyone who has experienced a high school– or undergrad–level art program may look back at their painting or sculpture course and…
Carol Bove and Steven Claydon
Carol Bove: The editor who commissioned this conversation suggested we might talk about modernism, but I’m not really thinking about…
Heimo Zobernig
Sabine Folie: On superficial first glance one could call your work minimalist — what Clement Greenberg described as the look…
Jutta Koether
Kim Gordon: Let’s talk about Inside Job. Maybe we should explain what it is. Jutta Koether: I wanted to come…
La Grande Bouffe
Harry Lime, the cynical and diabolical character played by Orson Welles in The Third Man (1949), would have never imagined…
Circle the Wagons
Laura Mclean-Ferris: To begin this discussion about pastoralism, I’d like to ask about your most recent body of work, which…
Art & Language
Although it may be difficult or even unfair to make a true assessment of the real extent of Art & Language’s…
Franz Erhard Walther
I have always felt fortunate to have come of age as an artist during the early ’70s (turning 20 in…
Keith Sonnier. Light and space
Keith Sonnier is one of the first artists who worked with light as a sculptural material. In the late ’60s, he started experimenting with a combinations of incandescent light fixtures, neon tubes and other materials to explore the diffusion of light through various materials and the surrounding architectural space.
After the Deluge
The waters in Piazza San Marco were rising the night of the official Venice Biennale opening, causing a mini flood…
Notes on Venice Biennale
A tale of a Nose Everyone talks of the high life, money, carousing and non-stop parties of Venice. I love…
Is There a Lot to Understand?
Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colorists are epic poets. — Charles Baudelaire In an interview published in March 2011…
The Scottish Connection
Figurative painting in Britain over the past two decades is a story of fragmentation, of individual accomplishment that has never…
Remembering Okwui Enwezor: Intense Proximity Triennial, a conversation with Rahma Khazam
Rahma Khazam: “Intense Proximity” is the title of the triennial you are curating at Palais de Tokyo and other venues,…
Ilya & Emilia Kabakov
There have always been artists who required us to do extra homework to be ready for the full intellectual effect…