Flash Art #335 SUMMER 2021
COVER → Cao Fei, Nova, 2019. Video still. Single-channel HD video 2.35:1, color with 5.1 sound. 110’ 54’’. Courtesy of the artist; Vitamin Creative Space, Beijing / Guangzhou; and Sprüth Magers, Berlin / London / Los Angeles.
ON VIEW → International exhibitions selected by ◯ Guillaume Désanges, Curator of La Verrière, Fondation d’entreprise Hermès’ exhibition space, Brussels ◯ Charlotte Laubard, Dean of the Visual Arts Department at HEAD – Haute école d’art et de design, Geneva ◯ Beatrice Leanza, Executive Director at maat – Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia, Lisbon ◯ Melanie Ohnemus, Director of Kunsthaus Glarus
FEATURES → ◯ Cao Fei: Overlapping Temporalities and Realities. A conversation with Daniel Birnbaum, Hou Hanru, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and Philip Tinari ◯ Prophetic Culture: Experiencing the End of the World Andrea Bellini in conversation with Federico Campagna ◯ The Sensual Spiral Andrea Lissoni in conversation with Fatima Al Qadiri ◯ Behind Her Scene A visual project by Jenna Gribbon ◯ Intimate Dislocations: On Lydia Ourahmane’s Barzakh by Carlos Kong ◯ Transitional States: From Body to Object, From Object to Body Eleonora Milani in conversation with Cecilia Bengolea ◯ Heron Preston: The Department of Sanitation, New York City by Charlie Robin Jones ◯ BLUEBOT STUDIES A visual essay by Giulia Essyad ◯ An Autofictional Theory of the Last Decade of the Art World: On Emily Segal’s Mercury Retrograde by John Belknap ◯ NEWCOSTUME Episode IV: Ru Kwok. A Column by Matthew Linde ◯ Terra Incognita. Ruben Spini in conversation with Caterina Barbieri ◯ The Age of Love Chapter II: Quack! A Duck’s Heart by Chus Martínez ◯ TELL EVERYONE. Episode III: Roe Ethridge. A Column by William J. Simmons ◯ Questionnaire: Noldor Artist Residency: Nurture as an Essential Part of Artistic Process and Growth. Blaykyi Kenyah in conversation with Joseph Awuah-Darko and Kenza Hamdi ◯ Letter from the City by Will Benedict
REVIEWS → ◯ “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America” New Museum / New York ◯ Niki de Saint Phalle “Structures for Life” MoMA PS1 / New York ◯ Yayoi Kusama “A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe” Gropius Bau / Berlin ◯ Alain Jacquet “Jeux de Jacquet” Galerie Perrotin / Paris ◯ “Age of You” Jameel Arts Centre / Dubai ◯ Regina Cassolo Bracchi “REGINA. DELLA SCULTURA” GAMeC / Bergamo ◯ Hannah Villiger “Works/Sculptural” Istituto Svizzero / Rome