-
Aug 27, 2024 | 
e-flux.com | Kristian Vistrup Madsen |Friedemann Malsch |Luca Lo Pinto |Chiara Clarke Siravo
Austria‘s largest gallery festival will explore and contextualize artistic practices related to the past, present and future of archives. In addition to 24 exhibitions by international curators, the festival will feature a new discursive program and a symposium, both specifically focusing on artists’ archives and estates.
-
Mar 26, 2024 | 
news.artnet.com | Kristian Vistrup Madsen
“This Documenta will be like no other Documenta,” says Paul B. Preciado some four hours into a 14 hour documentary about the 2017 edition of the prestigious German quinquennial art show.
-
Oct 19, 2023 | 
artforum.com | Izabella Scott |Kristian Vistrup Madsen |Daniel Felsenthal |Chus Martínez
THE ARTS COMMUNITY is diverse and crosses borders, nationalities, systems of faith and belief. We as artists, writers, curators, filmmakers, publishers, and workers who create the core around which institutions and organizations revolve need to be assured that these are not just safe but humane spaces.
-
Oct 19, 2023 | 
artforum.com | Sarah Prickett |Izabella Scott |Kristian Vistrup Madsen |Daniel Felsenthal
On self-disintegration and the beauty of misunderstandingTeeth, x-rays, parts of cadavers, children’s toys, the steel heads of hammers: Real or ersatz, these are objects that could find each other only at a police station, or perhaps at the home of a murderer, unless, of course, they are compiled within the niches of an artist’s studio. Willa Nasatir is the artist; the studio is part of her art. That is to say, her images are highly reflective of the processes by which they are made.
-
Oct 18, 2023 | 
artforum.com | Izabella Scott |Kristian Vistrup Madsen |Daniel Felsenthal |Chus Martínez
Frieze London keeps calm, carries on AT THE GAGOSIAN OPEN—a new pop-up branch of the megagallery located in a crumbling eighteenth-century house in East London—I peered at early works by Christo. In the 1950s, before the Bulgarian émigré began swaddling entire buildings in collaboration with his partner, Jeanne-Claude, he began concealing bottles and empty paint cans in fabric.
-
Oct 17, 2023 | 
artforum.com | Kristian Vistrup Madsen |Daniel Felsenthal |Chus Martínez |Mateus Nunes
VIRGO SEASON’S COME AND GONE, the season of people who tighten their belts and straighten their backs, a time characterized by a destructive willingness to exert oneself without being able to answer the question, Why? A Virgo is her own worst enemy, and so, as a Virgo, to enter into a period of energetic overlap between personal and collective experience means the exacerbation of an already overly sensitive temperament. This is a kind of disclaimer.
-
Oct 3, 2023 | 
artforum.com | Travis Diehl |Izabella Scott |Kristian Vistrup Madsen |Daniel Felsenthal
Henry Taylor on painting fast, paying homage, and putting shit togetherHenry Taylor is one of those artists who just does it—puts shit together, paints what he feels like painting. He works, as they say, intuitively. But that’s not to dismiss the thoughtful way he’s arranged his subjects: urban life, Black life, the artist’s life.
-
Oct 1, 2023 | 
artforum.com | Kay Gabriel |Kristian Vistrup Madsen |Daniel Felsenthal |Chus Martínez
Greer Lankton’s Sketchbook, September 1977 Sketchbook, September 1977, by Greer Lankton. New York: Primary Information, 2023. 160 pages. IN SEPTEMBER 1977, a precocious Greer Lankton scribbled in a Chicago suburb. Nineteen, talented, asthmatic, embattled, she described her art practice: “I remember telling Joyce once to excuse my behavior while I’m working on dolls because the excitement overcomes me. I also have found that I don’t need sleep or food when I work just liquids.
-
Jun 12, 2023 | 
artforum.com | Kristian Vistrup Madsen
Slant The uneasy intimacy of the Rijksmuseum’s Vermeer blockbuster June 12, 2023 • Kristian Vistrup Madsen Johannes Vermeer, Girl Interrupted at Her Music, 1659–61, oil on canvas, 15 1/2 x 17 1/2". MANY ARE THE TALES of people fainting at the sight of a Vermeer, or crying just at the thought. Suzanne Raes’s new documentary, Close to Vermeer, contains several.
-
Jun 1, 2023 | 
artforum.com | Kristian Vistrup Madsen
Tolia Astakhishvili, once upon the time, (diagnoses and treatments), 2023, paint, coffee, dirt, ink, pigment, papier-mâché, plaster, chairs, blankets. Installation view, Bonner Kunstverein. Photo: Mareike Tocha. “HOW UGLY AND DEPRESSING to see a house that has employed a bevy of craftsmen to work everything up to a fine finish,” wrote Yoshida Kenkō, a Japanese monk, in the fourteenth century.
