Allese Thomson
Jonathan Horowitz
Jonathan Horowitz discusses his Free Store at Art Basel
June 2013
Jonathan Horowitz is a New York–based artist known for his often-sardonic examination of value systems in media, culture, and politics. Here, he discusses his Free Store, which he first presented in 2009 at Sadie Coles and has since recreated… READ ON
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Alex Israel
Peres Projects Berlin
June 2013
Alex Israel believes in stardust, a magic unique to Hollywood that has the power to turn the ordinary into celebrity. Whereas in his previous output he has acted as director, sprinkling everything from rented prop-warehouse set pieces to … READ ON
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Reto Pulfer
Swiss Institute
June 2013
While a dream about a cave with a constellation of stars inspired Reto Pulfer’s US solo debut, he does not attempt to re-create this experience in a literal sense. Instead he has utilized language as a map, creating a tale—available as … READ ON
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Nick Mauss
Galerie Neu
May 2013
Citation has always been integral to Nick Mauss’s output. In his current solo exhibition, referentiality leads not to historical references but to memory and the way images get locked up in the mind, slipping out in the process of artmaking.… READ ON
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Captain Planet
“EXPO 1” and NADA in New York
May 2013 NEW YORK
ONE NIGHT, twenty-some years ago, Klaus Biesenbach boarded a train from Berlin to Venice. “Flights were too expensive,” the curator explained Saturday evening as he stood at a podium in a satin-trimmed tuxedo jacket facing about one … READ ON
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Bohemian Rhapsody
The 9th Gallery Weekend Berlin
May 2013 BERLIN
“BERLIN! THE LAST BOHEMIA!” declared Peter Saville in his baritone voice. “Not like London. The artists there have been driven out to the fringes. All my old spots now are supermarkets of wealth.” Balancing a cigarette in one hand, … READ ON
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Michelangelo Frammartino
Michelangelo Frammartino on Alberi
April 2013
Michelangelo Frammartino’s Alberi (Trees) is a twenty-eight-minute rumination on ancient rituals performed by villagers in Italy’s Basilicata region. The piece builds from his 2010 film Le quattro volte, which meditates on the eternally… READ ON
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Heart of Glass
The 9th SP-Arte
April 2013 SÃO PAULO
“I WANT THERE TO BE A THUNDERSTORM OF GLASS, so it will sound like something very wrong happened,” whispered Jonathas de Andrade as he leaned over a row of five hundred–plus glass-inlaid photos that he had set up like dominoes around … READ ON
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Kara Walker
Kara Walker discusses “Rise Up Ye Mighty Race!”
March 2013
For her latest exhibition, Kara Walker draws upon two white supremacist texts from the twentieth century, building a breadth of work that centers pointedly on the present moment. The show is titled after a line in Barack Obama’s 1995 memoir,… READ ON
