Flash Art #334 SPRING 2021
COVER → Helen Marten, Water Fidelity (Them), 2018. Detail. 310 × 1.250 × 500 cm. Installation view of “Fixed Sky Situation” at König Galerie, Berlin, 2019. Photography by Annik Wetter. Courtesy of the artist and König Galerie, Berlin / London. © Helen Marten.
ON VIEW → International exhibitions selected by ◯ Lorenzo Balbi, Director at MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna ◯ Steven Brittan, President at SACI – Studio Arts College International, New York / Florence ◯ Rainer Fuchs, Chief Curator and Deputy Director at mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna ◯ Martha Joseph, Assistant Curator at MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York
FEATURES → ◯ Helen Marten: Whispered Circuitry, Drunken Quality by Alex Bennett ◯ Anne Imhof in Three Acts, an Improvisation: Hunter, Writer, Lover by Benjamin Piekut ◯ Julie Mehretu: On Black Abstraction, Futurity and Opacity as a Space of Liberation by JaBrea Patterson-West ◯ Grace Wales Bonner: A Restitution to History by Charlie Robin Jones ◯ Telfar: Not for You, for Everyone. Andrea Bellini in conversation with Babak Radboy ◯ Music as a True Statement, Sound as a Definition of Space: Carl Craig by Taja Cheek ◯ Prediction in the era of Digital Stupidity by Noam Segal ◯ The Age of Love: Notes toward a Nonbinary World by Chus Martínez ◯ Time Machines: A tribute to the Nineties. Remarks on installations and changes in time dimensions by Benjamin Weil. Being Positive is the Secret of the 90s. A comment on the politically correct epidemic by Éric Troncy ◯ THE CURATORIAL GAZE Episode V: Le Salon Turc. A Column by Pierre Bal-Blanc ◯ TELL EVERYONE. Episode II: Promising Young Woman: A Dialogue with Lauren Mayberry. A Column by William J. Simmons ◯ Lemaniana. Reflections on other scenes. A survey of current artistic production in the Léman Region. Eleonora Milani in conversation with Mohamed Almusibli, Jill Gasparina and Stéphanie Moisdon ◯ Letter from the City by Kaspar Müller.
REVIEWS → ◯ Alejandro Cardenas “ALEXANDRIA,” Almine Rech / New York ◯ Hamishi Farah “Antagoni,” Château Shatto / Los Angeles ◯ Emma McIntyre “Pour Plenty On the Worlds,” Chris Sharp Gallery / Los Angeles ◯ Xinyi Cheng “The Horse with Eye Blinders,” Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart / Berlin ◯ Lydia Ourahmane “Barzakh,” Kunsthalle Basel ◯ Richard Artschwager Gagosian / Rome ◯ Pedro Cabrita Reis and Cerith Wyn-Evans “The Mudam Collection and The Pinault Collection in Dialogue,” Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean ◯ Senzeni Mthwakazi Marasela “Waiting for Gebane,” Zeitz MOCAA / Cape Town