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MADRE, Naples
Located in Naples’ vibrant historical center, Museo d’Arte contemporanea DonnaREgina (MADRE) is housed in the 19th-century Palazzo Donnaregina, redeveloped by architect Álvaro Siza. MADRE was established by the regional Fondazione Donnaregina in 2005, which has promoted and administered the museum ever since. Its inaugural Jannis Kounellis retrospective in 2006 marked the beginning of an ambitious [...]
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Dorade
Between grace and triviality, critics and silly poetry, beautiful faces and nasty bodies, Swiss French Dorade defines itself as an “artistic periodical where mermaids admit to their slightly fishy odor.” It is indeed with this sort of absurdity that Dorade immerses us from issue to issue in their beguiling, bold and evocative world. Conceived of [...]
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KALEIDOSCOPE Magazine
Issue 18 (Summer 2013)
KALEIDOSCOPE Magazine Issue 18 (Summer 2013) The issue’s opening section of HIGHLIGHTS features ANDRA URSUTA, whose practice is understood by Joanna Fiduccia as committed to annihilating sculpture’s distance from our world; the fashion-label-cum-art-project SHANZHAI BIENNIAL, whose tangible products, explains Kevin McGarry, are eclipsed by their collateral evidence; SERGEI TCHEREPNIN, described by Lawrence Kumpf as creating [...]
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Brooklyn-based artist
Zak Kitnick
In terms of density, bouillon cubes and infosthetics have more in common than one may expect at first blush. Zak Kitnick, one of the artists “Younger Than Jesus” included in the 2009 edition of the New Museum triennial, points his research towards the inner connections, both for position and meaning, generated by empty objects when [...]
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KALEIDOSCOPE
for Francesco Vezzoli
“The Trinity” Visual identity and book” Galleria Vezzoli” Exhibition catalogue design KALEIDOSCOPE is pleased to announce a collaboration with celebrated Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli, on the occasion of a greatly ambitious project: “The Trinity,” the artist’s first extensive international retrospective, hosted by MAXXI, Rome, MoMA PS1, New York and MOCA, Los Angeles. The survey will present work produced over [...]
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ANDRA URSUTA
words by Joanna Fiduccia
Never say Andra Ursuta didn’t pay homage to her forerunners. Ten feet tall and coated in black rubber like some improbable sex toy, Ass to Mouth (2010) is a double tribute:
SHANZHAI BIENNIAL
words by Kevin McGarry
“We lie a lot. We’re based on misrepresentation in many forms.” What could be a more honest disclaimer about Shanzhai Biennial than this, told to me by its co-president Babak Radboy? Radboy, the creative director who led the
HYPER-MATERIALITY
interview by Ruba Katrib
The work of artists Alisa Baremboym and Pamela Rosenkranz deals with the redistribution of what constitutes the organic and the inorganic—situations in which synthetic materials could look more like bodily substances, and the
MASSIMILIANO GIONI
interview by Francesco Manacorda
Francesco Manacorda: This is the fourth biennial that you have curated. In your opinion, what is the greatest potential that the biennial holds? What do you envision to be the future developments of these
AMALIA ULMAN
interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Simon Castets
Hans Ulrich Obrist/Simon Castets: Where does your catalogue raisonné begin? What is the first piece you no longer considered student work?
Amalia Ulman: I can’t pick only one because
CARRON meets CORNARO
interview by Gary Carrion-Murayari
Gary Carrion-Murayari: I’ve chosen to speak to you both because of the complex, evocative, or even disconcerting approach that you bring to familiar, everyday objects. Although the results you achieve are
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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.
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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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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
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 [...]
