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Nov 12, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Travis Jeppesen |Pablo Larios |Percy Zvomuya
With every odd stacked against it, Venice rises to the surface as Italy’s art capitalLATE IN THE LANGUID COVID-HANGOVER winter of 2022, I had just left my university post in Shanghai and was launching myself back into freelancing waters when I received an unusual invitation via email from an artist I had never met before. Her name was Noa Pane, and she was a sculptor who had also attended my alma mater, the Royal College of Art in London.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Pablo Larios |Lillian Davies |Tracey Emin |Garrett Bradley
I MET LEE UFAN in Venice this past spring. I was coming from Berlin, where I’d just seen his retrospective at Hamburger Bahnhof—Museum für Gegenwart. That show—a sweep through five decades of stimulating, philosophically inclined sculpture and painting—began with Lee’s early Relatum sculptures of the late 1960s (Relatum is the title he gives all his sculptures), moving through the thick, minerally strokes of his “From Point” and “From Line” paintings of ca.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Gordon Hughes |Travis Jeppesen |Pablo Larios |Percy Zvomuya
NOTES1. Hal Foster and Benjamin Buchloh, Exit Interview (New York: No Place Press, 2024), 5 and 138. 2. Ibid., 135. 3. Clement Greenberg, “Modernist Painting,” in The Collected Essays and Criticism, vol. 4, Modernism with a Vengeance, 1957–1969 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986), 85. 4. Foster and Buchloh, Exit Interview, 138 and 139. 5. Ibid., 84. 6. Ibid., 99. 7.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Pablo Larios |Percy Zvomuya |Gordon Hughes
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Natasha Degen |Travis Jeppesen |Pablo Larios |Percy Zvomuya
On the rise of the artist agentTHAT ART WAS CREATED for its own sake was our inherited ideal. For the better part of two centuries, artists and art institutions upheld this vision of art’s autonomy, elevated above quotidian life and unadulterated by base commercial concerns. Things were of course never so simple or pure; reality never quite lives up to the ideal. But the novelty of the present is only visible against this image of the past.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Pablo Larios |Simon Denny |Moritz Scheper |Diedrich Diederichsen
A MOVING TRUCK pulled up to my apartment building the other day. When it drove off a few hours later, someone had left behind a hulking old armoire. It was the kind of dusty heritage object that for our parents’ or grandparents’ generations had signified a great deal—respectability, investment, social mobility. But homes fall apart, tastes change, parents die, and people move away. Tarik Kiswanson employs simple-seeming objects to conjure the sense of rootlessness that pervades our age.
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Jun 22, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Pablo Larios
Succession speculations at the 54th Art BaselA collector opens his hands to reveal a fistful of ruby-red pills. “I’m no longer an art collector, I’m a drug addict,” he jokes, before swallowing them in one gulp. It’s Tuesday evening after the Fifty-Fourth Art Basel opening, and we’re perched in a lively, wood-lined mezzanine at an Alpine-themed cottage above medieval Barfüsserplatz. “When you get old, you need these,just to eat,” he groans.
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May 23, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Pablo Larios |Matthew Wilder |Duncan Ballantyne-Way |Piotr Orlov
Nobles in Hapsburg Spain would eat clay pots. When you snack on bits of pottery, as it turns out, your skin gets whiter and your digestion improves: favorable side effects accompanying the anemia, and intestinal and liver damage, caused by a diet of pilfered New World ceramics. On Tuesday, April 16, I walked through Sandra Gamarra Heshiki’s colossal meta-museum at the Spanish pavilion, “Pinacoteca Migrante” (Migrant Art Gallery).
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May 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Pablo Larios |Barry Schwabsky |Vaginal Davis |Rick Owens
“I EXPEL MYSELF, I spit myself out, I abject myself,” writes Julia Kristeva in Powers of Horror, her 1980 classic of psychoanalytic criticism. In Mire Lee’s morbid environments, fluids surge, orifices open, and pipes leak, though we are never sure what, or who, comes out of them. “I give birth to myself amid the violence of sobs, of vomit,” Kristeva continues. This image—of birth through convulsion—captures the pathos of Lee’s regurgitative sculptures.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Hannah Bhuiya |ENEMIESBy Pablo Larios |Pablo Larios |Travis Jeppesen
Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo), whose work is featured in the Biennale’s main exhibition, shares a photo diary of her favorite moments from the opening week. “The past no longer is, the future is not yet here; there is only one moment in which life is available, and that is the present moment.”—Thich Nhat Hanh
