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…
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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…
Into Me/Out of Me
I am sitting on the bank of the River Ganges and I am stuffing everything I see into my head……
Kutlug Ataman & Atom Egoyan
I arrive 30 minutes late. It is one of those mornings where you get out of the house on time…
Here and Now
Choosing a way to arrive in London, or worse, how to get into London itself, is no less complicated than…
Expanding the City
“I’m glad London’s become what it is today,” an artist told me recently, “But I can’t get my head around…
Mike Nelson
Michele Robecchi: Your installations are very intense but never too busy. They seem to preserve a minimal quality. Mike Nelson:…