Art Review #67
April 2013
Berlin: The final installment of our three-part guide to the city’s art scene.
Wolfgang Tillmans: The World Through My Lens
Design: A special focus on the relationship between design and art, featuring Maurizio Cattelan, Karl Lagerfed, Konstantin Grcic and many more.
D 9.50€
Frog #12
Frog is a contemporary art and architecture magazine, published twice a year.
Issue 12 contains 17 exhibition reviews, 4 interviews, 10 exhibitions in pictures, artist’s special projects, and the chronicles.
Features: Paul Bernard, Thomas Bizien, Yves Brochard, Gaetan Brunet, Pierre-Nicolas Bounakoff, Gregory Cardon, Yan Ceh, Pierre-Henri Chauveau, Camille de Chenay, Antoine Espinasseau, Pierre Even, Marina Faust, Franck Gautherot, Daniele Gibrat, Maria Del Greco, Alex Israel, Dominique Issermann, Catherine Laubier, Marjolaine Levy, Flavien Menu, Alexandra Midal, Vincent Normand, Paquita Paquin, Armelle Portelli, Fabien Pinaroli, Anne Pontegnie, Douglass Ross, Jesse Seegers, Ida Soulard, Jennifer Teets, Nicolas Trembley, Annie Troncy-Rosen, Virginie Vuillaume, Chloe Valadie, Benoit Viguier, Arnaud Viviant, Jordan Wolfson, Mei Lun Xue.
Edited by Eric Troncy and Stéphanie Moisdon, Frog is an international art and architecture magazine.
Graphic design: M/M (Paris).
English / French
23 x 30 cm
Price: €18.00
Points of Departure #1: Effects of Remoteness / How to Travel. o-s-x-x.
First issue of “Points of Departure”
Edited and designed by Matthew Galloway
Final section designed and printed by Index
Published in New Zealand by o-s-x-x.
72pp, 165 x 238mm
April 2012
Price: €16.00
Camera Austria International #121.
What has been apparent for quite some time now, is a new exploration or a reappropriation of artistic practices, especially of the 1970s. Camera Austria International 121 does not only survey these positions as to their relevance within society in the present day, but also fosters tension between them and contemporary artistic practices. Joanna Warsza introduces the works of the Polish artist group Akademia Ruchu while the collective works of the Gorgona Group of Zagreb are at the heart of the essay by Sandra Križić Roban. The literary scholar Wendy Tronrud approximates the meta-referential works of South American artist Alejandro Cesarco. Austrian artists Nicole Six & Paul Petritsch take direct recourse to conceptual practices from the 1970s in creating an independent artistic contribution. According to the thematic emphasis of this issue, the Forum section is designed by the Open Class at the Academy of Fine Art, Vienna in a collaborative process. An extensive section offering reviews of international exhibitions and books supplements the main content of this issue.
Sandra Križić Roban: Gorgona / Miljenko Horvat
Joanna Warsza: Akademia Ruchu
Nicole Six / Paul Petritsch
Wendy Tronrud: Alejandro Cesarco
Kolumne / Column: T.J. Demos
Forum: Freie Klasse an der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
English / German
22. März 2013
Price: €16.00
White Zinfandel #3: Food Fights. W/—— Projects.
Issue No. 3 / FOOD FIGHTS
FW / 2012
Since our last issue, we’ve observed the convulsions in the Middle East from afar and witnessed up close the incantations against Wall Street. Paired with the explosion of food as culture, with the elevation of our most basic necessity to a luxury good, this issue reflects an idiosyncratic year of massive change.
Cover painting:
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet
Sticky Fingers, 2012
Special Edition Print:
Olaf Breuning
Special thanks to Alexei Tylevich, Logan, Adam Katz & Dina Pugh, Cyril Duval / Item Idem, Leif Hedendal, Victoria Gondra, Laura Dressler, MacGregor Harp, NADA, Dominic & Chris Leong, Fahad AlHunaif
Table of Contents
RUB YOUR FACE HERE… / Davide Balula
WORLD WAR 420! / Leonard Greco
CHINATOWN / Anonymous
A WEDDING / Bless
LAST FEAST / Hunter Hunt Hendrix
TERATOMAS AMERICANOS / Josh Kline
DHEA TARTARE / Josh Kline
PEDRO GADANHO / Sean Lally
UNTITLED / Nick Van Woert
JUST JOKING / James Gaddy
RED BEANS & RICE / Tom Sachs
VADER FRIDGE / Tom Sachs
SPICEY PAINTING / Marlous Borm
TERRORIST TASTES / Pete Deevakul
DEMOISELLES / Jean-Baptiste Bernadet
KERAMIKOS2 / Matthew Lutz-Kinoy
HERITAGE CURED MEAT / Mimi Chun
CANAPÉS… / U. Grau & C. Goberna
LET ‘ER RIP / Maia Ruth Lee
GRAIN(S) of SALT / Ryland Wharton
PENITENTIARY / Erika Lade
BUTTERY COTTAGE / Elliott Green
BINARY SYSTEM / Darren Jones
FOURCHETTE / Daphne Fitzpatrick
PETTING HEAVY / Annie Choi
THOMAS DEMAND / Friend & Colleague
JUNIOR SUITE / Thomas Demand
UNTITLED… / D. McDonald & P. Beckwith
TOILET PAPER! / M. Cattelan & P. Ferrari
CATCH & RELEASE / Suzanne Rivecca
Price: €20.00
mono.kultur #33 – KIM GORDON: DISSONATINE.
“I hope that it still retains a certain wrongness.”
Kim Gordon, of course, created a legacy of musical innovation. Thriving on the playgrounds of noise music for more than three decades, her band Sonic Youth stoically pursued their own particularly dirty blend of noise-punk experimental rock music, building along the way not only a league of dedicated followers, but also miraculously achieving mainstream success without ever ceding ground to mediocrity. If anything, Sonic Youth became a household name for integrity and that specific kind of cool in a genre where cool is firmly attached to youth – which certainly had a lot to do with the detached charisma of Kim Gordon.
While Sonic Youth’s influence on past and current generations of experimental and punk music is undisputed, Kim Gordon’s role as a female figurehead in music and also in the visual arts might be a more complex one, based on the highly personal pursuit of her diverse interests without, unlike so many of today’s pop stars, any discernible strategy or intentional provocation. Instead, it seems to be Gordon’s unfailing belief in subculture and staying true to herself that over the years gave her a voice that would be heard clearly even within mainstream culture.
While, for personal reasons, the future of Sonic Youth remains uncertain, Kim Gordon shows no signs of standing still, returning to her beginnings as a fine artist and pursuing her fascination with noise, in sound and on canvas.
With mono.kultur, Kim Gordon talked about the vulnerability of male rock stars, the myths of New York and why fine art was her first love.
True to Kim Gordon’s DIY philosphy, the issue is somewhat of a treasure chest filled with new and old artwork by Kim Gordon, coming in a set of loose sheets and cards in varying sizes and printed on no less than five different paper stocks, all held together by the most basic commodity of all: the good old rubber band.
Spring 2013
Interview by Fiona McGovern
Artwork by Kim Gordon
Design by Willem Stratmann / Studio Anti
Price: 5€
Spike #35: Materializing the Unthinkable / Das Undenkbare materialisieren.
Portrait Ed Atkins
The perfect surfaces of the digital take on a deathly sheen in the videos of the British artist, creating a fertile ground for zombies.
Artist’s Favourites
By Darren Bader: Gustave Courbet, Sandro Botticelli, Roe Ethridge, John Finneran, Clarice Lispector
Talk
Rita Vitorelli interviews Nicolaus Schafhausen about his curatorial vision, the value of discourse and causing a stir.
Curator’s Key
Chris Fitzpatrick on Serial Protest Signs by Frank Chu
Galleries
The young Tokyo-based gallery Take Ninagawa discovers a new generation of artists comfortable with incongruity. By Nick Currie
Institution
Clémentine Deliss re-imagines the collection of the World Cultures Museum in Frankfurt through collaborations with artists. By Jan-Philipp Possmann
Portrait Heinrich Dunst
His experience in conceptual practice with roots in 80s Vienna, has made the Austrian artist well versed in art’s discursive powers, and their limitations. By Hans-Jürgen Hafner
Hans-Jürgen Hafner
Portrait Cosima von Bonin
Oliver Basciano considers the impact of varying professional expectations, poses and ploys in the practice of the Cologne based artist.
21st Century Theory
The nature of objects, the role of science and the problematics of aesthetics are being approached by a new generation of thinkers. Our ongoing series of 21st century thought opens with Quentin Meillassoux’s proposal for a philosophical materialism. With an introduction by Armen Avanessian.
The body understood as an object
Swedish performer/choreographer Mårten Spångberg shares his thoughts on space, rhythm, expectation and embodiment with Filipa Ramos.
Acid in the Style of Carolyn Christov-Barkagiev
Digital composer Florian Hecker releases his documenta 13 sound work »Chimerization« on vinyl. By Christian Egger
Seduction
By Pablo Larios, Signe Ross, Anna Jermolaewa, Slavs and Tatars, Joanna Kamm
Reviews
»Amazing! Clever! Linguistic! An Adventure in Conceptual Art«, Vienna; »Fotos«, Vienna; »Zeichen, gefangen im Wunder«, Vienna; Rudolf Polanszky, Vienna; Kiluanji Kia Henda, Innsbruck; Tue Greenfort, Berlin; Barbara Hammer, Berlin; Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Berlin; Lutz Bacher, Frankfurt; David Hockney, Cologne; Daan van Golden, Zurich; Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Antwerp; Clément Rodzielski, Paris; BANK, London; Matisse, New York; »Blues for Smoke«, Los Angeles; Guy de Cointet, Mexico
Spring / Frühling 2013
English / German
146 Pages
Price: €9.50
C Magazine #117: Translation. C The Visual Arts Foundation.
Featuring: Hito Steyerl, Feminism After Elles, Institutions by Artist, Feminist Art Gallery, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Kristiina Lahde, Tiziana La Melia, Leah Bowery, Vanessa Maltese, Roman Liska, Sean Alward, Kika Thorne, Hazel Meyer & Rick Leong
Spring 2013
60 Pages
English
ISSN 1480-5472
Price: 5€
Winter 2013
Cover by: Oliver Osborne
INSIDE THE COVER
Oliver Osborne
words by Isobel Harbison
PORTRAITS IN THE EXHIBITION SPACE
Alexander Dorner When Space Becomes Art
by Lorenzo Benedetti
SPACES — STUDY CASES
Anthony Huberman, The Artist’s Institute, NY
by Vincent Honoré
PANEL
Layering & Counter-Positioning
Designer James Langdon interviewed by Gavin Wade
TALKING ABOUT
Zoo–topia – Zoo Architecture as Taxonomies of National Representation
by Eszter Steierhoffer images by Candida Höfer
LAB
LUCA FRANCESCONI
A pumpkin is a pumpkin is a pumpkin
words by Giovanni Carmine
SHOW AND TELL
Bettina Buck – To Be Continued
by Cecilia Canziani
LAB
Re-productions
text and works by Mark Barrow
SPOTLIGHT
Aurélien Froment – De Debuilding
by Julien Fronsacq
LAB
The University at the Other of the Voice
a poem by Roger Van Voorhees
SPOTLIGHT
Laura Reeves – Back to Reality
by Adam Carr
THE EXHIBITION ROOM
Unhappy Readymade
Imaginary Show of Fictional Artworks. Vol. 1
by Valentinas Klimašauskas images by Virginija Januškevičiūtė
BOOKS
Committing today: Guerrilla Art Action Group
by Raimar Stange
THE FOX
Revisiting The Fox (1975-1976), part II
by Felix Vogel
Author: Ilaria Marotta and Andrea Baccin (Eds.)
Publisher: CURA.
Language: English
Binding: Softcover
Price: €7.00
frieze d/e #8
Mythos Rheinland
Cologne & Düsseldorf: where are they now?
Michael Krebber
Thomas Schütte
Alexandra Bircken
Februar-März 2013
German / English
136 Pages
D 8.50€