N° 2 2008
April/May
‘Storyboards’ is what Adam Avikainen calls his works comprised of multipartite paintings and text. Sumptuous, science-fiction-like representations and colourful stories, all ready for the film version which probably will never be made, except in the viewer’s mind.
The tone and character of the discourse on art is increasingly being determined by museums and institutes that have taken the discussion of their activities into their own hands. What is happening to art criticism?
The Status of Contemporary Art Criticism
A Conversation with Rosalind Krauss
01/05/08 Sjoukje van der Meulen
As editor of the American art magazine Artforum and then the theoretical art journal October, Rosalind Krauss has followed the development of art criticism for over thirty years from very close by, contributing in no small measure herself to the direction it has taken. On the basis of her experience, how does she define the task of the art critic, now that her position is being criticized from various quarters?
Words and Objects
Falke Pisano, Mario Garcia Torres
Aurélien Froment and Josef Strau
20/07/08 Christophe Gallois
Just as the conceptual art of the sixties and seventies, a young generation of artists is intensively focusing on the use of language in art. Unlike back then, this is not about the conversion of image into language, resulting in sober textual works. Artists like Falke Pisano, Mario Garcia Torres, Aurélien Froment and Josef Strau are taking a more analytical and documentary approach in their exploration of the relationship between language and image in order to create new perspectives.
OPENING
