Divisions
Originally published in Aperto ’93: Emergency/Emergenza, Giancarlo Politi Editore, 1993. The European scene of late has been dominated by the…
Helena Kontova
Flash Art no. 227 April-May 2001
Flash Art Covers: the historic covers of Flash Art International told by Helena Kontova. I was traveling to New York…
Flash Art no. 132 February-March 1987
Flash Art Covers: the historic covers of Flash Art International told by Helena Kontova. Jeff Koons was an ambitious broker…
Flash Art no. 200, May-June 1998
Flash Art Covers: the historic covers of Flash Art International told by Helena Kontova. In an image by Damian Loeb…
Flash Art no. 150, January - February 1990
Flash Art Covers: the historic covers of Flash Art International told by Helena Kontova. A young artist who caught my…
Flash Art no. 130, October - November 1986
Flash Art Covers: the historic covers of Flash Art International told by Helena Kontova. Julian Schnabel was one of our…
Flash Art no. 92 - 93, October - November 1979
Flash Art Covers: the historic covers of Flash Art International told by Helena Kontova. Frank Stella’s Khar Pidda (1978) definitely…
The Better Biennale
“Aperto ’93,” curated by Flash Art editor Helena Kontova and twelve other critics and curators active with the magazine, was…
Marina Abramovic, Vanessa Beecroft and Shirin Neshat
I invited three cult women artists to reflect on nationality, what it means to be an outsider, a woman and…
Maurizio Cattelan
Helena Kontova: You lived for almost a year in Germany, in Berlin. How was this experience and your relationship to the…
Francesco Vezzoli
Amongst the artists who participated in this year’s Performa, Francesco Vezzoli created his first live performance entitled Right You Are…
Marina and Ulay
Helena Kontova: You’ve been Conceptual artists, then you were Body artists, and now working together you talk about “Art Vital.”…
Francesco Vezzoli
Massimiliano Gioni: You worked with Helmut Berger and Carlo di Palma, John Maybury and Marisa Berenson: an army of stars…
Your History is Not Our History
At the entrance of “Your History is Not Our History, New York in the 1980s,” I was pleasantly surprised by…
Cai Guo-Qiang: Saraab
With works occupying eight rooms and featuring the exterior of the recently developed Mathaf, Cai Guo-Qiang’s first solo exhibition in…
Urs Fischer: Madame Fisscher
Urs Fischer’s retrospective at Palazzo Grassi, Venice, comprises works made between the early ’90s and the present day, and starts…