Flash Art #331 Summer Issue 2020
COVER → Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Complication, 2013. Oil on canvas. 78.7 × 98.4 in. Courtesy of the artist; Corvi-Mora, London; and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. © Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
ON VIEW → International exhibitions selected by ◯ Florencia Giordana Braun, Director at Rolf Art Gallery, Buenos Aires ◯ João Laia, Chief Curator at Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki ◯ Theodor Ringborg, Director at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm ◯ Zoé Whitley, Director at Chisenhale Gallery, London
FEATURES → ◯ Rest as Revolution: The Speculative Nature of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Figuration by JaBrea Patterson-West ◯ We Are All in This Together. Aren’t We? by Marina Fokidis ◯ Post-Catastrophic Romance: On Neïl Beloufa’s www.screen-talk.com by Carlos Kong ◯ Tomás Saraceno – How to Entangle the Universe in a Spider Web by Stefanie Hessler ◯ Olafur Eliasson: Planetary Metabolism and the Charismatic Landscapes of the Cryosphere by Elise Hunchuck ◯ ANESTHESIA SCAMMED 2020 by Amnesia Scanner ◯ Me. You. Us. Them. by Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland, and Hans Ulrich Obrist ◯ Genesis Breyer P-Orridge by Jane Ursula Harris ◯ THE CURATORIAL GAZE Episode I I : Index of Household Consumption. A Column by Pierre Bal-Blanc
REVIEWS → ◯ Peter Saul New Museum / New York ◯ Rosie Lee Thompkins BAMPFA / Berkley ◯ “For a Dreamer of Houses” Dallas Museum of Art / Colorado ◯ Hito Steyerl Thaddaeus Ropac / London ◯ “Expectations” Emalin / London ◯ Marina Pinsky C L E A R I N G / Brussels ◯ “Journey into a Living Being – From Social Sculpture to Platform Capitalism” Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin ◯ Isa Melsheimer Kunstmuseum KINDL / Berlin ◯ Josephine Pryde Galerie Neu / Berlin ◯ “Potential Worlds 1: Planetary Memories” Migros Museum / Zurich ◯ Olivier Mosset MAMCO / Geneva ◯ Sveta Mordovskaya Cherish / Geneva ◯ Benjamin Hirte Emanuel Layr / Wien ◯ Jim Dine Palazzo delle Esposizioni / Rome ◯ “Alpha Crucis – Contemporary African Art” Astrup Fearnley Museet / Oslo ◯ “Resistance of the Sleepers” UCCA Dune / Beijing ◯ Billy Childish Lehmann Maupin / Seoul ◯ Danh Vo The National Museum of Art, Osaka