Summer preview 2005: three times a year Artforum looks ahead to the coming season. The following survey previews fifty shows opening around the world between May and August.BASEL [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Simon Starling Simon Starling (born 1967 in Epsom, Surrey) is an English conceptual artist and was the winner of the 2005 Turner Prize. He attended Glasgow School of Art. The idea of efficiency is a theme that informs much of his work, including Tabernas Desert Run Museum fur Gegenwartskunst June 11-August 7 Curated by Philipp Kaiser Simon Starling, master of productive detours and delays, is up for a midcareer retrospective and wants to slightly alter the museum itself. The exhibition not only displays nine important works made since 1993 but remains true to the artist's way of working by featuring two large, site-specific installations that involve architectural interventions (in one instance, Starling starling, any of a group of originally Old World birds that have become distributed worldwide. Starlings were brought to New York in 1890; since then the common starling (Sturnus vulgaris) has spread throughout North America. even cuts into the walls of the newly renovated building). The show, accompanied by a catalogue that includes a long interview with the artist, also contains an appropriated photographic work by American artist Christopher Williams The name Christopher Williams may refer to:
ZURICH When Humor Becomes Painful Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst August 27-October 30 Curated by Heike Munder and Felicity Lunn If laughter truly is the best medicine, this show could heal us all. Migros director Heike Munder and independent curator Felicity Lunn explore the use of humor as a strategy and philosophy--as well as its repercussions--in works from 1965 through today. They aim to position viewers in that awkward space where one questions the punch line punch line n. The climactic phrase or statement of a joke, producing a sudden humorous effect. punch line Noun the last line of a joke or funny story that gives it its point Noun 1. and wonders what exactly instigates laughter. From Bruce Nauman Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941, in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is a contemporary American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing and performance. to Thomas Zipp Thomas Zipp (born 1966, Heppenheim, Germany) is an artist based in Berlin. Zipp studied at the Freien Kunst Städelschule, Frankfurt and the Slade School[1], London from 1992-1998. , George Maciunas George Maciunas (November 8, 1931 – May 9, 1978) was a Lithuanian born, American artist who was a founding member of the Fluxus, an international community of artists, architects, composers, and designers. Maciunas is generally credited with having invented the name "Fluxus. to Rachel Harrison Rachel Harrison (born 1966, New York) is an artist based in New York. Harrison has show work internationally in many exhibitions including ‘Posh Floored as Ali G Tackles Beck’ at Arndt & Partner [1] in Berlin, ‘Should home windows or shutters be , Martin Kippenberger Martin Kippenberger (b. 25 February 1953 in Dortmund- d. 7 March 1997 in Vienna) was an influential German artist whose penchant for mischievousness made him the focus of a generation of German enfants terrible to John Bock John Bock was born in Gribbohm in 1965. He studied in Hamburg, Germany and lives and works in Berlin. He has had solo exhibitions in a number of international institutions including MoMA, New York; Kunstwerke, Berlin, Kunsthalle, Basel; Secession, Wien; ICA London. , this show, Freudian slips and all, should evoke some uncomfortable giggles, awkward guffaws, and maybe a tear or two. Travels to the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Jan.-Mar. 2006. --Ali Subotnick VIENNA Gustav Metzger Gustav Metzger (born 1926) is an artist and political activist who developed the concept of Auto-Destructive Art. Together with John Sharkey, he initiated the Destruction in Art Symposium in 1966. Metzger is recognized for his protests in the political and artistic realms. Generali Foundation The Generali Foundation was established in 1988 by the Generali Group Austria as a private and non-profit-making art association for the promotion of contemporary art. Situated in [Vienna], [Austria], it is one of the important museums specialised in collecting and exhibiting conceptual May 11-August 28 Curated by Sabine Breitwieser Although influential and highly regarded after a nearly fifty-year career, Gustav Metzger remains an elusive figure--not surprising, perhaps, for one who proposed that, for three years beginning in 1977, artists should not produce, sell, or exhibit work in order to protest commercialism. Metzger's art is sensitive, committed, and demanding, and his early practice of autodestruction (an artwork's capacity to destroy itself over time) constitutes a sustained, unapologetic attack on a dealer system from which he has kept a determined distance. This retrospective of about thirty works--installation, photography, sculpture, and more--is accompanied by a catalogue with essays on various aspects of Metzger's work by Justin Hoffmann, Kristine Stiles Kristine Stiles, Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University, is author (together with Peter Selz) of the landmark anthology of artists’ writings, “Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art” (1996). , and Andrew Wilson Andrew Wilson could refer to:
--Michael Archer [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SALZBURG Les Grands Spectacles Museum der Moderne mo·derne adj. Striving to be modern in appearance or style but lacking taste or refinement; pretentious. [French, modern, from Old French; see modern.] Adj. 1. Salzburg Monchsberg June 18-October 3 Curated by Margrit Brehm and Roberto Ohrt "Les Grands Spectacles" is the latest curatorial project to leverage insights from Debord's Society of the Spectacle and the Situationist International for investigating culture and technology in the twentieth century. While the curators have made significant efforts to avoid typical reductionist re·duc·tion·ism n. An attempt or tendency to explain a complex set of facts, entities, phenomena, or structures by another, simpler set: "For the last 400 years science has advanced by reductionism ... pitfalls, this show of 320 works remains yet another exhibition that invokes the Situationist project but includes only the usual suspects (like Niki de Saint-Phalle and Yves Klein), some of whom were harshly critiqued by the Situationists. Of the SI, only familiar metonym met·o·nym n. A word used in metonymy. [Back-formation from metonymy.] Noun 1. Debord makes the list. Ohrt, a leading Situationist scholar, faces challenges in rendering a self-conscious view of the culture of technology rather than producing an unintended portrait of the technology of culture.--Keith Sanborn [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA Work Galerie im Taxispalais June 4-August 14 Curated by Silvia Eiblmar, Verina Gfader, and Tereza Kotyk Forget the forty-hour-a-week stint at the factory or office (not to mention pension plans and health care). From telecommuting telecommuting, an arrangement by which people work at home using a computer and telephone, transmitting work material to a business office by means of a modem and telephone lines; it is also known as telework. and outsourcing to third-world sweatshops, work today is as unpredictable and expansive as the global society it serves. In an ironic but not inappropriate bit of timing, Galerie im Taxispalais has chosen the vacation months of summer to consider the changing nature of work since the '60s, as reflected in the output of some thirty artists (like Mierle Laderman Ukeles and Harun Farocki). Equally apropos ap·ro·pos adj. Being at once opportune and to the point. See Synonyms at relevant. adv. 1. At an appropriate time; opportunely. 2. is the show's emphasis on women's work, which--entirely unregulated and famously never done--now seems like something of a model for late-capitalist labor at large. Travels to the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, 2006.--Margaret Sundell DUSSELDORF David Goldblatt Museum Kunst-Palast June 17-August 21 Curated by Christoph Danelzik-Bruggemann A self-described "white South African English-speaking Jew," David Goldblatt has always practiced photography as "a political act"--a way of "squaring one's conscience with being a white in this country." Active since the '50s, he's been a remarkably restrained and reliable witness to the awful subtleties of everyday inequity. But Goldblatt has also proven himself a master of the deceptively casual street scene, focusing on the cross section of social and commercial activity at busy intersections. This show, his first exclusively in color, features some eighty recent images that depict such locations in urban Johannesburg and rural Platteland--two radically different sides of postapartheid South Africa, where progress still tends to isolate the privileged and leave the dispossessed waiting by the side of the road.--VA [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FRANKFURT Populism populism Political program or movement that champions the common person, usually by favourable contrast with an elite. Populism usually combines elements of the left and right, opposing large business and financial interests but also frequently being hostile to established Frankfurter Kunstverein May 10-September 4 Curated by Lars Bang Larsen, Cristina Ricupero, and Nicolaus Schafhausen For over a century, the politics of "populism" has been used to rail against big business and bad government--and to kindle A portable e-book device from Amazon.com that provides wireless connectivity to Amazon for e-book downloads as well as Wikipedia and search engines. Using Sprint's EV-DO cellphone network, dubbed WhisperNet, wireless access is free. It also includes a built-in dictionary. a rise in nationalism and xenophobia Xenophobia Boxer Rebellion Chinese rising aimed at ousting foreign interlopers (1900). [Chinese Hist. . In four separate venues this summer, a forum of forty-two international artists (including Bernadette Corporation, Wang Du, Per Kirkeby, Erik van Lieshout, Cildo Meireles, and Sarah Morris) will address this political hot potato through such subthemes as mass media, globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation , surveillance, market industries, and religion. Two publications and a host of lectures and panel discussions around Europe help bring this show to the people. Also on view at the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Apr. 8-June 5; National Museum of Art, Architecture, and Design, Oslo, Apr. 15-Sept. 4; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Apr. 29-Aug. 28.--JR MUNICH Paul McCarthy Haus der Kunst The Haus der Kunst (literally House of Art) is an art museum in Munich, Germany. It is located at Prinzregentenstrasse 1 at the southern edge of the Englischer Garten, Munich's largest park. June 12-August 28 Curated by Stephanie Rosenthal Too often referred to simply as "the ketchup guy," Paul McCarthy has, over some three and a half decades, constructed a complicated, multifaceted oeuvre. By testing the limits of sculpture, painting, and performance, he inaugurated a strain of West Coast artmaking deeply rooted in the messy terrain of abjection and cultural critique. McCarthy's appearance in the vast Haus der Kunst marks his largest European appearance to date; in addition to two new installations focused on cowboys and pirates, the exhibition includes more than one hundred videos, drawings, and sculptures that span his career. An accompanying catalogue, with essays by John Welchman, Elisabeth Bronfen, and the curator, as well as a story by Benjamin Weissman, promises to posit McCarthy as the boss--of more than just burgers.--Johanna Burton [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] HAMBURG Jiri Georg Dokoupil Deichtorhallen Hamburg April 28-August 28 Curated by Robert Fleck Why does the present wave of figuration fig·u·ra·tion n. 1. The act of forming something into a particular shape. 2. A shape, form, or outline. 3. The act of representing with figures. 4. A figurative representation. 5. in oil from Germany seem like deja vu or perhaps even a bad joke? Because it was just two decades ago that Jiri Georg Dokoupil and the other members of Mulheimer Freiheit were said to have reinvented the medium in exactly the same way, prompting exactly the same enthusiasm from naive writers and, more important, the market. The extent of Dokoupil's artistic weight should be readily apparent in this exhibition of some two hundred works from the past twenty-four years (many of which will make their premiere in Hamburg). The accompanying catalogue includes essays by, among others, Thomas Hoppe and Slavoj Zizek. Travels to the National Gallery, Prague, 2006.--DB HERFORD, GERMANY (my private) Heroes MARTa Herford May 7-August 14 Curated by Jan Hoet, Michael Kroger, and Veronique Souben Documenta IX curator and Belgian art impresario Jan Hoet is always where you least expect him. Named director of MARTa in 2001, he has since been working toward the inauguration of this Frank Gehry-designed museum in the German countryside, conceived in partnership with the local furniture industry. Although MARTa's focus is on the interface between art, architecture, and design, its opening show allows Hoet to look back at his own career and acknowledge those who have inspired him: The resulting Wunderkammer of some three hundred works on subjects like art, jazz music, literature, and boxing will surely serve as a shrine to Hoet's emotional approach to everything. For as he once said to me: "If you don't understand boxing, you don't understand art."--Christian Rattemeyer [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] COPENHAGEN Per Kirkeby GL Strand August 20-October 30 Curated by Erik Steffensen That Per Kirkeby works with a diverse range of media--painting, graphics, sculpture, installation, and film--is well known. But his Danish audience also recognizes him as an essayist with a substantial monographic backlist back·list n. A publisher's list of older titles kept in print. tr.v. back·list·ed, back·list·ing, back·lists To place (a title) on a backlist. that illustrates his varied tastes. This exhibition reveals Kirkeby's relationship to the art-historical greats about whom he has written (like Giacometti, Gauguin, and Rodin) by displaying their works in dialogue with his own. While this sounds like a potential pantheon, Steffensen, an artist and professor at Copenhagen's Royal Academy, suggests that the show is more like an open studio, exploring Kirkeby's particular "principle of proximity." If like items should be placed together, it's not surprising that Kirkeby's local colleagues, like Tal R, will also get their due.--Lars Bang Larsen REYKJAVIK Reykjavik Arts Festival Various venues May 14-June 5 Curated by Jessica Morgan This twenty-five-year-old festival, now focused on contemporary art, features thirty artists and collectives spanning three generations but follows neither a traditional theme nor a site-specific fixation. Instead, the trigger and kernel for Morgan's curatorial effort ("Material Time/Work Time/Life Time") is the festival's inclusion of another show: a Dieter Roth retrospective curated by the artist's son, Bjorn Roth. Scattered over twenty venues in Reykjavik and around Iceland, the larger project is conceived, as were many of Roth's installations, as a constellation of elective affinities. On Kawara, Micol Assael, Wilhelm Sasnal, Brian Jungen, John Bock, Margret Blondal, and others work with Roth's artistic legacy. The catalogue includes a text by Morgan and a visual essay on Roth's life and work in Iceland.--Francesco Manacorda "The Experience of Art" Curated by Maria de Corral corral a small fenced-in enclosure with high, wooden fences, suitable for holding cattle or horses. corral system a management system in which range cattle are put into corrals and fed hay for a period when the environment is most Eija-Liisa Ahtila Vasco Araujo Francis Bacon Miroslaw Balka Andrea Blum Monica Bonvicini Candice Breitz Tania
Chen Chieh-jen Jose Damasceno Tacita Dean Willie Doherty Stan Douglas Marlene Dumas Leandro Erlich Bernard Frize Dan Graham Philip Guston Jenny Holzer William Kentridge Barbara Kruger Maider Lopez Joao Louro Jorge Macchi Agnes Martin Cildo Meireles Zwelethu Mthethwa Juan Munoz Bruce Nauman Gabriel Orozco Perejaume Robin Rhode Thomas Ruff Thomas Schutte Antoni Tapies Juan Usle Francesco Vezzoli Mark Wallinger Matthias Weischer Rachel Whiteread Jun Yang "Always a Little Further" Curated by Rosa Martinez Pilar Pilar strong-minded female leader of a group of guerrillas in the Spanish Civil War. [Am. Lit.: Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls] See : Female Power Pilar Albarracin Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla Ghada Amer Micol Assael Samuel Beckett Laura Belem Semiha Berksoy Blue Noses John Bock Louise Bourgeois Leigh Bowery Christoph Buchel & Gianni Motti The Centre of Attention Donna Conlon Stephen Dean Jimmie Durham Olafur Eliasson Bruna Esposito Regina Jose Galindo Carlos Garaicoa Cristina Garcia Rodero Mona Hatoum Diango Hernandez Maria Teresa Hincapie de Zuluaga Runa Islam Emily Jacir Guerrilla Girls Subodh Gupta Kimsooja Rem Koolhaas Oleg Kulik MoAA Mariko Mori Nikos Navridis Rivane Neuenschwander Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba Olaf Nicolai Adrian Paci Bulent Sangar Sanger can refer to:
Gregor Schneider Berni Searle Santiago Sierra Shazia Sikander Valeska Soares Kidlat Tahimik Pascale Marthine Tayou Paloma Varga Weisz Joana Vasconcelos Sergio Vega |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion