Laura Owens House of Gaga / Mexico City
To realize her site-specific installation at House of Gaga, Laura Owens locked herself up in the gallery with her assistants…
Magazine Articles
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…
Jana Euler: Contextual Painting in Times of Global Groundlessness
As much as an apt consideration about painting today would have been a welcome opening, there is an elephant in…
Rochelle Goldberg “Psychomachia” Miguel Abreu Gallery / New York
Wild lilies, sand, sourdough bread, tuna cans, gold, eye shadow, desert dirt: these are among the distinctive materials that Rochelle…
Nick Mauss “Bizarre Silks, Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts, etc.” Kunsthalle Basel
This show, conceived by Nick Mauss, opens — coherently — upon a threshold. A succession of flats commences, the first…
Frida Orupabo “12 self portraits” Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Sant’Andrea de Scaphis / Rome
Frida Orupabo’s imagery is both archival and personal — blurring the line between the two, if such a division exists.…
Invulnerable Vulnerabilities: Life and Art in the Time of the Virus
Nathaniel Mellors: We should talk about some of your work and the exhibition you’re working on for the museum. Tala…
Jeremy Shaw “Phase Shifting Index” Centre Pompidou / Paris
Six hours before President Macron ordered the closing of every nursery, school, and university in France, in an attempt to…
Cerith Wyn Evans “No realm of thought… No field of vision” White Cube / Bermondsey
If the stark, ascetic coda of Cerith Wyn Evans’s sculptures disintegrates under anything it is the sensuality of optics. Diluting…
Liam Gillick “Redaction” Casey Kaplan / New York
“Redaction,” the current show by Liam Gillick at Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, brings together a selection of key texts,…
Ragna Bley & Inger Ekdahl Malmö Konsthall
Abstract painting has a long history in Sweden. Indeed, modern abstraction may have been first manifested in the painting of…
Vivian Suter “Tintin’s Sofa” Camden Arts Centre / London
Recently, the life and work of Vivian Suter has been afforded an almost mythic quality. Born in Buenos Aires and…
Love and the Paraliterary: On Barbara Kruger’s Picture/Readings
Barbara Kruger’s work has come to represent a host of negative affects for art historians and critics, and it is…
“Bananas are a contemporary mirror”. Maurizio Cattelan in conversation with Virgil Abloh
Maurizio Cattelan: You produce desire for your audience: How do you generate it? What moves desire? Virgil Abloh: In general,…
Nicolas Trembley / Director of the Syz Collection, Switzerland
ON VIEW is a printed and an online section in which Flash Art invites prominent figures of the art world…