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Jana Euler’s exhibition
at Galerie Neu, Berlin
Last year, the counterintuitive results of a study were published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology under the title “The Virtues of Gossip.” The article touted the ability of gossip to reinforce social norms as well as to designate deviants within a social sphere. The lines between norms and outliers are recurring themes [...]
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Henri Chopin’s exhibition
at Supportico Lopez, Berlin
In the early ‘50s Henri Chopin threw all of his poems in a bag and then he burned it on the bank of the Seine: this was his first act of poetry. Founder of the Poésie Sonore movement, film-maker, publisher of Revue OU, sculptor, painter and typographer, this eclectic French poet was above all “an inner space [...]
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“Hi From California”
at Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
It all began on a full moon night in the Californian desert, a few miles away from Joshua Tree National Park. Former Tanya Leighton gallery director Robbie Fitzpatrick and writer Alex Freedman, both dressed in custom suits, hosted a pre-opening party for the launch of their gallery in Los Angeles that featured a Native American-inspired [...]
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Katja Strunz’ exhibition
at Berlinische Galerie
Paul Virilio describes the shrinking of the earth as an atopian experience in the moment of the invention of the vehicle. This “telluric contraction” was an important point of departure for Katja Strunz when conceptualizing her solo show at Berlinische Galerie, which opened during this year’s gallery weekend. For “Drehmoment (Viel Raum, wenig Zeit)” (“Torque [...]
LISTEN TO
The Focus Group’s new album
“Elektrik Karousel”
The Focus Group is the brainchild of Julian House, musician, co-owner of the Ghost Box music label (by whom this record is released) and designer associated with the London-based creative firm Intro. The album Elektrik Karousel (2013) follows in the style of The Focus Group’s previous installment, We Are All Pan’s People (2007)—after a parenthetical collaboration [...]
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OSCAR MURILLO
words by Isobel Harbison
Wolfgang Tillmans’s photograph after party (2002) shows a vacated studio, seen through mirrors resting against a wall. Daylight pours in. Its gray floor is blackened with last night’s footprints. Around the edges of the image,
TALA MADANI
words by Chris Wiley
On a recent visit to Tala Madani’s spacious studio in Los Angeles, a small, unfinished painting caught my eye. In it, a child totters sweetly in its crib, proffering an object that looks like an abnormally large bird skull to a fat,
HEIMO ZOBERNIG
interview by Beatrix Ruf
BEATRIX RUF At Simon Lee Gallery in London you are currently showing a group of paintings inspired by the recent “revival” of the first museum retrospective of Picasso’s work at Kunsthaus Zürich, which was mounted
JOHN CURRIN
interview by Catherine Wood
CATHERINE WOOD You once said that you felt Picasso wanted to see the arse, tits and vulva of the female nude spread out on one plane of vision.
JOHN CURRIN My point was that Cubism was not about a scientific
DIANNA MOLZAN
Essay by Jonathan Griffin
Every painting — every good painting, at least — is a problem. This problem can come in all shapes and sizes: a problem with the world, a problem with painting, a problem with one’s self. Whether it’s the curious vibrational
“PAINTER PAINTER”
interview by Cristina Travaglini
CRISTINA TRAVAGLINI You are set to curate a group show, tellingly entitled “Painter Painter” and featuring new works by 15 artists, that will be open at Walker Art Center next February. The exhibition focuses on the studio as
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5 QUESTIONS TO
LUCA FRANCESCONI ON HIS PROJECT “ORLANDO”
interview by Natalie Esteve
Orlando is a project curated by Luca Francesconi that took place in Sicily through a range of exhibitions in various locations. Invited artists are: George Henry Longly, Yannic Joray, David Douard, Emanuele Marcuccio, Katja Novitskova, Andrea Romano.
REVIEW:
Ângela Ferriera’s “Stone Free” at Marlborough Contemporary
words by George Vasey
“Shine bright like a diamond,” sings the American pop star Rihanna in a recent syrupy ballad. The lyric could have [...]
RE-BUNK!
words by Isobel Harbison
In 1946, a gang of artists, writers, poets and benefactors, with racy aspirations and an aversion to the trappings of a modern museum set up London’s ICA. The term “art center” seemed too parochial [...]
REVIEW:
7TH BERLIN BIENNALE
words by Anca Rujoiu
The 7th Berlin Biennale sets up clear expectations through a straightforward curatorial statement about what it embraces, excludes and loathes. [...]
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LIZ MAGIC LASER
interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist
LIZ MAGIC LASER For my Performa project I was working with a number of interviews that I was splicing up and adapting into a romantic drama. The first interview I found was the sarah Palin/glenn Beck interview that [...]
FRANK BENSON
words by Alessandro Rabottini
Long before the critical terminology of contemporary art began to misuse the concept of the “end”— the end of modernity, the end of the organic body, the end of reality—the language of art discussed representation as a [...]
TALKING TO MACHINES
Jason Brown and Brody Condon
introduced by DIS
When Kaleidoscope asked DIS to discuss Cyberpunk, we took a look at our stories from the past couple of years and found that, with its attendant style markers and signifiers [...]
PRISONER OF FLESH
words by Michele D’Aurizio
Case had become a prisoner of his own flesh. The thief he was, he had stolen from his employers, who instead of killing him had chosen to cripple his nervous system, depriving him of the capacity to access cyberspace [...]
TRI ANGLE RECORDS
words by Ruth Saxelby
“Pop is religion. Overground is underground.” So reads London/New York label Tri Angle’s SoundCloud profile. Led by label boss Robin Carolan, Tri Angle has released some of the most cutting-edge and [...]
SYLVIA SLEIGH
words by Joanna Fiduccia
Sylvia Sleigh was 57 years old when she met Paul Rosano. In those days, numerous New York artists and critics came under the British painter’s brush, but it was Rosano she seemed to love the best. He was her Victorine [...]
HASSAN KHAN AND
WAEL SHAWKY
mediated by Shahira Issa
SHAHIRA ISSA Perhaps I’ll start by asking you both how you consider your present practice…
HASSAN KHAN I’ve never had a set idea of what I am supposed to [...]
ON THE DIVERSITY OF
AFRICAN MUSIC
words by Benjamin Lebrave
There is more genetic diversity among Africans than within the rest of the world. This means if you look at the DNA of Africans from different ethnic backgrounds, you will statistically [...]
A CULTURAL ENCYCLOPEDIA
words by Nana Oforiatta-Ayim
Growing up, I had a mythic imagination of England, a place of sliced white bread, of rolling glades and hillsides, girls in straw boater hats, the Beatles, marmalade, a hand-bag toting [...]
NICHOLAS HLOBO
essay by Tracy Murinik
Over the past, prolific decade, Nicholas Hlobo has engaged in richly enigmatic conversations with his audience that explore themes of sexual and cultural identity via the suggestiveness of materiality that compose his [...]
LYNETTE YIADOM–BOAKYE
interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist
HANS ULRICH OBRIST In your paintings you have a very clear methodology, which is actually quite conceptual. It sounds like, in a sort of On Kawara way, a painting a day. Can you talk about this? It seems [...]
ELVIRA DYANGANI OSE
interview by Carson Chan
CARSON CHAN You were recently appointed Curator of International Art at Tate Modern and, given your expertise in African art, you will be contributing to Tate’s ambitions to expand its reach on the [...]
ALEXANDRA BACHZETSIS
interview by Catherine Wood
CATHERINE WOOD Your dances seem, alternately, like very private passages of thought and deliberately brash “showtime.” What is relationship between your “inside” and “outside” when it comes to inventing and [...]
155 FREEMAN
interview by Chris Wiley
CHRIS WILEY To begin, can you each describe the impetus behind your projects, and how they first came about? LIGHT INDUSTRY Light Industry began in 2008. At that time, we were thinking about how New York [...]
THE RESURGENCE OF R&B
words by Tim Small
When, a few years from now, we look back at what’s happening now in pop music, we won’t be able to escape discussions of the resurgence of R&B. The contemporary renaissance of smooth sounds and soulful [...]
