Gino De Dominicis
From Flash Art International No. 131 December 1986 That a symbol can mean one thing and at the same time…
Magazine Articles
Michael Schmidt
The Berlin photographer Michael Schmidt’s work is some of the most significant and at the same time least well known…
Bob Colacello
Francesco Vezzoli: Let’s start with Caligula, the movie. What did you think when you saw it for the first time?…
Reena Spaulings
Since the “founding” of Reena Spaulings sometime in 2004 a cloud of mystery has hung over the phenomenon. Who —…
Thoralf Knobloch
Even though Dresden and Leipzig are not so far apart geographically, the quality of painting emerging from these two East…
Focus London
As part of its journey through the major contemporary art centers worldwide, this issue of Flash Art International explores one…
La Force de l’Art
La Force de l’Art,” the first edition of a triennial initiated by the French Ministry of Culture, opened in the…
The French Connection
In the footsteps of Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, who are among the leading mid-career French artists, and…
Zidane
The subject of Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno’s new film, Zidane, A Portrait of the 21st Century, is a myth…
Cautious Alternatives
In New York everything happens quickly: three years are an era, a period long enough to test an entire generation,…
Daniel Buren
Jérôme Sans: Let’s start by talking about shows. How do you approach exhibition spaces? Are some better than others? Daniel…
Solmaz Shahbazi
After a video trilogy on the city of Tehran — Tehran 1380 (2002) made in collaboration with Tirdad Zolghadr, Good…
Yan Lei
Beatrice Leanza: Since the mid ’90s your work has consisted mainly of five large series of paintings (“International Scenery,” “Climbing…
Outsider Visions
Raw art that exists in extremis, at the very edges of culture and beyond — this could be one definition…
Takashi Murakami
Andrea Bellini: When you curated the show “Superflat” at MOCA in Los Angeles, you wrote that the world in the…
Into Me/Out of Me
When Marina Abramovic was in the early stages of planning her “Seven Easy Pieces,” the re-staging of seven seminal performances…