Self-Portrait and Self
Frances Stark (b. 1967, US; lives in Los Angeles) is constantly introducing herself. “Okay, now I guess I should say…
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Specters of the Avant-Garde
One day, guided by a false sense of originality, someone will write the history of the avant-garde as a long…
A Tear in the Fabric of Reality
Connecting and collating people, things and information in a practice that often extends beyond the creation of discreet art objects,…
Mediums of Conversation
The history of art in India dates back to a variety of mediums, from the renowned Ajanta Cave paintings to…
Property Relations
The conceptual work of American artist Cameron Rowland (b.1988, US; lives in New York) assumes a drily treacherous form that…
Enrico David
Enrico David’s vision is a multiform and decentralized one, dissecting and disintegrating whatever it is turned on, a gaze in…
John Latham
February 23, 2011, would have been John Latham’s 90th birthday. There was a little gathering at his house, Flat Time…
Franz Gertsch
Franz Gertsch (b.1930, Switzerland; lives in Rüschegg, Bern) painted two portraits of Johanna, the teenage daughter of a German industrialist,…
Betty Tompkins
In 1969, Betty Tompkins (b. 1945, USA; lives in New York and Mount Pleasant, PA) began her series of “Fuck…
Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo
“The fourth estate” is a term that refers to a social and political force whose influence is not consistently or…
A Nordic Light
INSTITUTIONS 1) Compared to Europe, what are the characteristics of visual art in the Nordic countries? Is there a “Nordic…
Gardar Eide Einarsson,
Matias Faldbakken
Gardar Eide Einarsson: Perhaps we could start by talking a bit about form: It seems to me that some artists…
Productive Contradictions
“Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must also change. Nothing comes from nothing; the new comes…
Öyvind Fahlström
Cultural transgression and a semiotic sensibility characterize the work, personae and positioning of Öyvind Fahlström, an artist who continues to…
Hyperreal, if You Like
The figures in the paintings of Sascha Braunig (b. 1983, Canada; lives in Portland, ME) and Avery K. Singer (b.…
Seth Siegelaub
Donatien Grau: You opened your gallery in 1964, when you were 23. What lead you to it? Seth Sieglaub: Before…