Peter Fend

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  print September 2012

  Peter Fend

  ART YIELDS IDEAS, technology gives means. Art needs technology to turn ideas into widespread belief, then construction. Credible information-gathering instruments like satellites and electron microscopes can be standard in art, in order to create an authoritative source of knowledge—and plans. I have worked with such instruments’ images since my first exhibition (as part of an artist team), at Caltech, in 1978. My collaborators and I have produced site analyses that have appeared on most TV-news networks and in international newspapers and scientific publications, and we have been invited

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  print December 2010

  THEIR FAVORITE EXHIBITIONS OF THE YEAR

  To take stock of the past year, Artforum contacted an international group of artists to find out which exhibitions and events were, in their eyes, the very best of 2010.

  SAÂDANE AFIF

  Jean-Pascal Flavien, No Drama House (Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin) Constructed in the gallery’s garden, Flavien’s house starts with a series of unsolvable problems—no center, too many corridors, too narrow—and then allows other things to happily get in the way. There’s a basement, but it’s aboveground outside. There’s a front door, but it’s on the second floor. Is there a garage? Who forgot the kitchen? There’s