26/01/12 Erik Wysocan
She is considered a ‘mother’ of contemporary sculpture. Carol Bove’s installations of objects - once subtle tableaux of found objects, nowadays more often constellations of self-made sculpture - have a cohesive configuration that also has multiple layers of meaning. (This article is published in Metropolis M No. 6 - 2011)
Bice Curiger gained international fame as the editor of the Swiss art magazine Parkett. This year she is responsible for ILLUMInations, the central exhibit at the Venice Biennale. Metropolis M spoke with her in Zurich.
Amateurism in art is flourishing. Breaking the rules, even knowing nothing about them, ties in with a generally felt need to escape the regime of the market, the professionals, the authorities. The American artist Jim Shaw knows that not everybody can be an amateur. To make a work of art look amateurish, you have to really know what you’re doing.
news 02.01.12 Nat Muller
On December 20th Palestinian artist Larissa Sansour issued a press release that her nomination for the prestigious Lacoste Elysée Prize awarded by the Swiss Musée de l’Elysée was revoked on grounds that her work was 'too pro-Palestinian'. Following a barrage of articles in the art and mainstream press, the Musée de l’Elysée cancelled the whole prize. Nat Muller caught up with Larissa Sansour now the dust has slightly settled.
02/01/12 Coline Milliard
Exhibitions have increasingly become a topic of investigation. Afterall Books have just launched a new series of case studies, Exhibition Histories. An interview with Teresa Gleadowe, Research Consultant and Series Editor.
12/12/11 Merijn Oudenampsen
Franco Berardi is one of the controversial Italian thinkers who are seeking a solution for the gradually collapsing capitalistic system. For him, the best method of fighting today’s abuses comes from an unexpected corner, through love. (dit artikel is gepubliceerd in Metropolis M No 6 -2011-2012, waarin ook de Nederlandse vertaling te lezen is - nu in de winkel).
Creativity and the Capitalist City
Interview with Tino Buchholz
features 17.11.11 Nicola Bozzi
In a prologue of the Blicke Film Festival (Ruhr area, Germany), the Rottstrasse Gallery in Bochum is screening Creativity and the Capitalist City, a film about the search for creativity linked to struggles for affordable housing and working space in Amsterdam.
features 28.10.11 Domeniek Ruyters
Every documenta has its own theoretical inception. This time, dOCUMENTA (13) director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev chose a series of one hundred publications dedicated to the idea of the note. Its editor is Chus Martínez, who in daily life is curator of the MACBA in Barcelona.
20/06/11 Barnaby Drabble
Bice Curiger gained international fame as the editor of the Swiss art magazine Parkett. This year she is responsible for ILLUMInations, the central exhibit at the Venice Biennale. Metropolis M spoke with her in Zurich.