Since the 2004 Whitney Biennial premiere of the video 89 Seconds at Alcázar-a meticulous reconstruction of the Velázquez painting Las Meninas using live actors-artist Eve Sussman and Rufus Corporation have become known for projects that use contemporary mediums and techniques to redefine iconic artworks. In this interview, we talk with Sussman about 89 Seconds and [...]
Interview with Sam Taylor-Wood
Sam Taylor-Wood’s films, videos and photographs unveil both the magic and the tragedy of the here and now. Beauty, immortality, art history and painting are some of the ingredients that characterize her remarkably intense oeuvre.
By Selene Wendt
Selene Wendt - In this exhibition the medium of painting is broken down and reshaped through [...]
(On Venice Biennale’s ILLUMInations)
By Paco Barragán
For people in Venice that aren’t necessarily so well informed in art matters, “ILLUMInazioni - ILLUMInations” might make them think of a kind of light show…
Obviously the title is not very bright and shining. To be more precise: this contradictio in terminis in the title is a cheap, lamentable boutade. [...]
An Interview with Kaari Upson
Kaari Upson is a Los Angeles-based artist who works in painting, drawing, sculpture, video, and performance. For the last several years (since graduating from CalArts in 2007) she has focused on producing work for the Larry project, an investigation on the identity of the other that pushes and creates boundaries in [...]
By Claire Breukel
Gastón Ugalde is Bolivia’s best-known contemporary artist. Born in the city of La Paz, Ugalde is known, despite his decades long career, as the “enfant terrible” of the local art world for the subversive nature, both conceptually and materially, of his artwork. His provocative nature is grounded by an extensive and eclectic education, [...]
How Media Look at the World
By Christiane Paul
Ideally, today’s media landscape could function as a way of measuring the political, economic, and social disturbances in our societies’ structures, thereby helping us to find a basis for action and adjust structural problems. Then again, media themselves can be seen as a disturbance of reality, being [...]
By F. Javier Panera
On August 1, 1981, MTV began its 24-hour music broadcasts with the video clip by the British band The Buggles: Video Killed the Radio Star directed by Russell Mulcahy. The title of that song, composed two years earlier, foretold of the approaching changes in the audiovisual language connected to pop music [...]
What Happens When Contemporary Art Turns Into an Internet Meme?
Today, the Internet is providing a new platform of dialogue between high and popular culture, experimental practices and wide audiences; and while online platforms with no artistic agenda may be better understood in terms developed by art criticism, art projects may become extremely popular in non-art [...]
The U.S. Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale provides a good argument to look into Puerto Rico-based artists Allora & Calzadilla’s proposal and how the mechanisms of political art are incorporated into the market and finally neutralized.
By Carla Acevedo-Yates
Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla are a collaborative artist team based in San Juan. Having worked together [...]
By Michele Robecchi
In December 2003 Thomas Hirschhorn dropped a bomb in the room by announcing that he would no longer exhibit in his home country. The page-long statement was motivated by the election of Christoph Blocher, number two of the ultra-conservative Swiss People’s Party, to a full member of the Federal Council the very same [...]
