N° 5 2007
October/November
Cosmology of an Island
Charles Avery on The Islanders
01/10/07 Tom Morton
Charles Avery (Scotland, 1973) has been working since 2004 on his epic The Islanders, a description in text and images of life on an imaginary archipelago and of the characters who live there. This vast project, which probably will occupy Avery for the rest of his life, can perhaps best be described as a meditation on the making of art and the impossibility of discovering the truth. His work is now shown at the Athens and Lyon Biennal.
Mid-Career
Introduction
01/10/07 Domeniek Ruyters
It is the career of a Dutch artist: you go to art school, maybe graduate school, live on a starter’s grant, work here and there as an artist in residence, get into a group show, then a few more group shows, have some one-man shows at a gallery, teach at an art school, and suddenly, there you are, mid-career. It creeps up like an assassin.
01/10/07 Maxine Kopsa
Is the mid-career becoming more important? According to some, it is not the newest art of a young generation that sets the tone nowadays, but the work of artists over forty. Independence and consistency are replacing change and trendiness. But just what is a 'mid-career, and when does the term apply?
01/10/07 Robert Garnett
In today’s art, the new has had it. Everything looks professional and serious, even predictable and lethargic. The current popularity of ‘mid-career art’ shows us, says Robert Garnett, the povertisation of the art world, in which the genuinely ‘New’, that which is truly earth-shaking, doesn’t stand a chance.
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