The most recent posts for in Conversations. http://www.artinamericamagazine.com Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:41:34 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/conversations/2013-06-19/so-nice-in-new-york-martial-raysse-at-luxembourg-dayan/ <p>Nice-born artist Martial Raysse began his career by making work that straddled American Pop and French Nouveau R&eacute;alisme<span class="st">&mdash;</span>a movement that includes him as a founding member. Since then, his work has been categorized<span class="st">&mdash;</span>by academics and critics<span class="st">&mdash;</span>as French Pop, European Neo Avant Garde and the School of Nice (along with Yves Klein and Arman), to name a few, although, said Raysse via e-mail, "I do not think my work belongs absolutely inside any of these boxes." <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG ></o> <o:PixelsPerInch>72</o:PixelsPerInch> <o:TargetScreenSize>1024x768</o:TargetScreenSize> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--></p> <p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning ></w> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas ></w> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:Alw Aimee Walleston Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:00:00 +0100 http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/conversations/2013-06-11/going-underground-in-venice-an-interview-with-gilad-ratman-1/ <p>Gilad Ratman's video projects demand an extreme physicality from the friends and associates whom he enlists as participants. In&nbsp;Che Che the Gorgeous&nbsp;(2005), they lie on a cracked desert floor in what look like cocoons, singing and wailing, sounds that are then mixed in a home studio by a DJ. In&nbsp;Alligatoriver&nbsp;(2006), they undertake a noisy bacchanal in a supposedly alligator-infested river. Often his players act barely civilized, or borderline insane, with a propensity for wordless vocalizations, shaggy hair and unkempt couture.&nbsp;</p> Faye Hirsch Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:00:00 +0100 http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/conversations/2013-06-10/triumph-of-life-an-interview-with-marc-quinn-/ <p>One of the most talked-about exhibitions during the opening days of the 55th Venice Biennale was British artist Marc Quinn's self-titled solo show at Venice's Giorgio Cini Foundation (through Sept. 29). The foundation is located on the small island where the facade of Palladio's iconic San Giorgio Maggiore church rises above the canal, providing a dramatic backdrop for Quinn's <em>Breath</em> (2012), a 36-foot-tall inflatable gray sculpture of an armless, nude, very pregnant woman sited on the plaza outside the church.</p> Francine Koslow Miller Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:00:00 +0100 http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/conversations/2013-06-04/new-foundations-an-interview-with-katrn-sigurdardottir-/ <p>To visit Katr&iacute;n Sigurđard&oacute;ttir's installation <em>Foundation</em> at the Venice Biennale, you must travel to the Palazzo Zenobio in the city's Dorsoduro quarter. There you traverse a courtyard garden, beyond which lies a spacious, grassy yard flanked by walls in diverse masonry. On the far side of the yard is a plain gray building that looks as though it has been sliced through horizontally by the black-and-white-tiled floor of a second, entirely unrelated structure.</p> Faye Hirsch Tue, 04 Jun 2013 15:00:00 +0100 http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/conversations/2013-06-04/the-backstory-of-the-venice-biennales-encyclopedic-palace-/ <p>Most people in the art world scratched their heads when the title of Massimiliano Gioni's exhibition for the 55th Venice Biennale was <a href="http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/news/2013-03-13/venice-biennale-artist-list-announced/">announced</a> in March. "The Encyclopedic Palace" takes its name from an 11-foot-tall architectural model built in the 1950s in rural Pennsylvania by an Italian-American mechanic/inventor-cum-untrained artist named Marino Auriti (1891-1980).</p> Leigh Anne Miller Tue, 04 Jun 2013 11:45:00 +0100 http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/conversations/2013-05-30/crossing-over-an-interview-with-ron-nagle/ <p>"This is my big crossover," Ron Nagle told&nbsp;<em>A.I.A.</em>&nbsp;on the phone from his studio in San Francisco last week. The threshold to which the artist was referring is the 55th Venice Biennale-specifically Massimiliano Gioni's exhibition, "The Encyclopedic Palace," that opened in the Central Pavilion of the Giardini and the Arsenale to VIP visitors today and in which Nagle has 30 pieces.</p> Zoe Larkins Thu, 30 May 2013 09:00:00 +0100 http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/conversations/2013-05-23/life-of-objects-an-interview-with-mary-mattingly/ <p>Ecology, nomadic living and community participation are central to Mary Mattingly's collaborative projects. <em>Triple Island</em><strong>, </strong>her next collaborative work, will open July 20 on Pier 42 in Lower Manhattan.</p> Greg Lindquist Thu, 23 May 2013 14:45:00 +0100 http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/conversations/2013-05-23/superflat-screen-takashi-murakamis-jellyfish-eyes/ <p>Murakami's debut feature film, <em>Jellyfish Eyes,</em> makes breaking down the divide between art and commerce look like child's play.</p> Maxwell Williams Thu, 23 May 2013 11:00:00 +0100 http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/conversations/2013-05-20/more-than-words-an-interview-with-karla-black-/ <p>Scottish artist Karla Black makes large, multisensory sculptural installations that commingle traditional art supplies&mdash;plaster, chalk, paint, paper&mdash;with materials more familiar from the medicine cabinet, such as Vaseline, face powder and Alka-Seltzer.</p> Becky Huff Hunter Mon, 20 May 2013 15:15:00 +0100 http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/conversations/2013-05-03/days-of-the-commune-an-interview-with-zoe-beloff-/ <p>During spring 2012, Beloff directed a series of remarkable performances of Bertolt Brecht's 1949 play <em>The Days of the Commune</em>, which was set in the 1871 Paris Commune. Echoing the values at the heart of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Beloff's production was not a single performance of the play.</p> Jennie Hirsh Fri, 03 May 2013 12:20:00 +0100 http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/conversations/2013-04-26/beyond-vernacular-an-interview-with-john-outterbridge/ <p>High-profile exposure has been a long time coming for Outterbridge, underscoring the critical ghettos into which the mainstream American art world continues to relegate much black American art.</p> Austin Considine Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:00:00 +0100 http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/conversations/2013-04-25/becoming-adults-the-paintings-of-elena-sisto/ <p>April is a big month for Sisto. She's having first New York solo show since 2004, the traveling exhibition "Between Silver Light and Orange Shadow," which originated at Miami Dade College Museum of Art + Design, made a stop at the University of Florida's University Gallery in Gainesville and is now at New York's Lori Bookstein Gallery (through May 25). She also was awarded a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.</p> Julian Kreimer Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:45:00 +0100 http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/conversations/2013-04-19/born-digital-rhizomes-heather-corcoran-/ <p>Aside from maintaining Rhizome's website, Corcoran is most concerned with the conservation of the kind of "born digital" work Rhizome promotes.</p> Leigh Anne Miller Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:40:00 +0100 http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/conversations/2013-04-19/drawing-democracy-robert-longo-at-the-aldrich-museum/ <p>Politics&mdash;and their attending monoliths&mdash;are endemic to a recent series of drawings by Robert Longo, "God Machines." The newest addition to the series, which also includes depictions of places of worship, is<em>Capitol</em>&nbsp;(2013), an enormous seven-panel charcoal drawing of the U.S. Capitol Building.</p> Aimee Walleston Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:45:00 +0100 http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/conversations/2013-04-12/playing-telephone-an-interview-with-amalia-pica/ <p>Images associated with listening-cups pressed to the wall, a makeshift antenna, earplugs cast in metal-thread through the work of London-based, Argentinian-born artist Amalia Pica. It's an unusual preoccupation, particularly for an artist whose work extends the legacy of Conceptualism, which, at its most stringent, posited art as something purely ideational, unbound by the exigencies of shape and form.</p> Courtney Fiske Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:40:00 +0100 http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/conversations/2013-04-08/industrious-revolution-an-interview-with-justin-matherly-/ <p>Even though the objects on view are all made with modern-day industrial materials such as concrete and metal, walking into "All industrious people," an exhibition by Justin Matherly at New York's Paula Cooper Gallery (through Apr. 27), feels something like entering a show charting an archaeological dig at an ancient site.</p> Brienne Walsh Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:30:00 +0100 http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/conversations/2013-04-04/return-an-interview-with-yael-bartana-/ <p>Recently acquired by the Guggenheim, where it was screened last year, the 60-minute work centers on Bartana's semi-fictive Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland (JRMiP), which calls for the return of 3.3 million Jewish emigrants to their "ancestral homeland."</p> Tracy Zwick Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:00:00 +0100 http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/conversations/2013-04-02/the-collecting-life-an-interview-with-thea-westreich-wagner-and-ethan-wagner/ <p><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><br />The book is, on one hand, a lively and accessible history of art collecting, particularly in the 20th and 21st centuries. On the other, it's something of a best practices guide for budding collectors. </span></p> Austin Considine Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:00:00 +0100 http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/conversations/2013-03-28/going-against-the-grain-interview-with-sebastian-errazuriz/ <p>Some of those included in "Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design"&nbsp;<span>blur the artist-designer distinction. A prime example is Sebastian Errazuriz, who expands the concept of furniture, blending utility, expressionism and personal vision.</span></p> Carol Strickland Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:00:00 +0100 http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/conversations/2013-03-25/rirkrit-tiravanija-lights-stockhausen-at-the-armory/ <p>The music, a 70-minute excerpt of the late composer's 29-hour opera "Licht," was intended to be performed in a specially designed chamber with octophonic (8-channel) sound. Tiravanija conceived of a circular stage with a lunar surface to include both the audience and the performers, all-white smocks to be worn by all attendees, and a light show that approximates an eclipse.</p> Ross Simonini Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:00:00 +0100