Tag: Contemporary Art

  • Big Business–Diary on China Focus at the 2014 Armory

    http://artforum.com.cn/diary/6420 大生意 2014军械库艺博会“聚焦中国”单元 去年秋天，在军械库艺博会宣布“聚焦中国”的酒会上，初被任命为策展人的尤伦斯当代艺术中心馆长田霏宇（Phil Tinari）回忆起十几年前北漂的情形：在派对上介绍自己是个驻京艺评家，基本没人搭理。

  • “What Beautiful Dreams are Made Of” for Now at the Met

    Duan Jianyu’s Beautiful Dream series (2008), currently displayed in the exhibition Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, showcases clichéd renderings of tourist attractions and scenic Chinese landscapes on flattened cardboard boxes. The charming naiveté of the silhouetted forms belies her witty treatment of the banal subjects and materials: soda-can rings reinforce the Great Wall’s bulk, and…

  • On Performa 2013 Artforum Slant

    Performa 2013发生在这样一个年份: 自拍现象(selfie)成为被反复讨论的文化症候群，表演与观看在大众文化中达到高度自觉，自我审视与社会性表演无孔不入地互渗。这些表演最私密、也最遥远；极尽可能地泛滥，却精确地测绘着观看政治的形状与边界。

  • William Anastasi – ‘Sound Works, 1963-2013’ Artforum pick

    A recorder plays itself recording an otherwise silent environment (Microphone, 1963) while the murmur of industrial objects—a radiator, a deflated tire, a pneumatic drill—buzz conspicuously from attached speakers (Sound Objects, 1963–65). Foregrounding sound as readymade, these mechanomorphic-looking pieces conjure up Duchamp but their conceptual reckoning was very much at the contemporary edge—Joseph Kosuth’s One and Three…

  • “Gilt”-Pleasure: Jeff Koons Interview/访谈

    传说中的Jeff Koons瘦小但体态放松、神情自得，永远的华尔街人士打扮，气质中透着美国东部传统中产的富足得体及表面上的谦和友好，面向观众说话时身体略向前倾，举手投足间得当近人的魅力，更像个Corporate America式的高管或者小型私立大学中最受欢迎的那类教授。

  • 观念的画/观看的画 The Observing Painting

    为上海天线空间韩冰个展 (2013年9月27日- 2013年11月10日)所写 韩冰的画面笔触斑驳,一面是得心应手的表现主义,另一面渗透数码画面的微妙质感:精准输出现实造型世界的信息,象素块的组织规则、棱角,和偶发误差.

  • Romantic Fallacies

    That being an artist is a romantic undertaking still holds true for many; but not Luc Tuymans, whose thinly-smeared, off-register, and elusively referential images oscillate between what is depicted and a sheer detachment from the subject matter. They conjure up a subconscious world where the most banal elements—creased sheets on an unkempt bed or eerily…

  • A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial

    http://artforum.com/archive/id=41590 07.19.13   “A Different Kind of Order,” the Fourth ICP Triennial, finds itself in a much digitized and image-overloaded world—a state more intensely felt than in any previous installments and made all the more apparent by the show’s default medium specificity. Recognizing the futility of deploying any overarching theory, the curatorial team in this…

  • The 55th Venice Biennale 第五十五届威尼斯双年展

    “The 55th Venice Biennale.” Artforum. June 2013. http://artforum.com.cn/picks/section=world#威尼斯 “百科宫殿”作为二十世纪中期住在宾州郊区、名不见经传的意大利裔美国艺术家Marino Auriti的严肃臆想，有着典型理性宏愿的漏洞百出，但这一前数码时代对人类知识

  • Anselm Kiefer at Gagosian Gallery

    “Anselm Kiefer at Gagosian Gallery.” Artforum. May 2013. http://artforum.com/archive/id=41099 “Morgenthau Plan” presents paintings and sculptures with a quintessentially Anselm Kiefer–esque repertoire of elegiac imagery molded upon scorched and densely processed surfaces. Here, fifteen large-scale canvases depicting barren expanses strewn with detritus, sparse stalks, and pastel-hued flowers—painted over enlarged photographs of blooming fields near the artist’s…