Ten exhibitions on through September you want to miss: Taipei Biennial; Gwangju Biennale; From All Sides: Tansaekhwa on Abstraction at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles; Nel Aerts at Carl Freedman, London; Cildo Meireles at Luisa Strina, São Paulo; Here and Elsewhere at New Museum, New York; Broomberg & Chanarin at Museo Jumex, Mexico City; Marine Hugonnier at Baltic, Newcastle; Daniel Buren at Baltic, Newcastle; ABC: Art Berlin Contemporary; Cally Spooner at GB Agency, Paris. By Martin Herbert
Points of View: Our writers on what’s happening in the artworld and beyond: Jonathan T.D. Neil on whether art is good, or just valuable; David Claerbout on the performed video; J.J. Charlesworth on cultural boycotts; Maria Lind on the contemporary need for depth, continuity and pleasure; Mark Sladen on information flow in the work of Aaron Flint Jamison; Oliver Basciano on the moral panic surrounding the proposed recreation of Kongolandsbyen; Hettie Judah on ancient cheese networks and monasteries for the modern age; Jonathan Grossmalerman on how to put out a fire in the studio; Karen Archey on off-space the Suburban, in Oak Park, Illinois.
Great Critics and Their Ideas
P.D. Ouspensky discusses Theosophy, Suprematism, Futurism, Constructivism and Productionism. Interview by Matthew Collings
Other People and Their Ideas
Philosopher Graham Harman discusses his thinking around ‘object-oriented ontology’ and speculative realism. Interview by J.J. Charlesworth
Great Curators and Their Ideas
Charles Esche, curator of the São Paulo Bienal, tells ArtReview how he and his team plan to fill the Oscar Niemeyer-designed Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion. Interview by Oliver Basciano
The Law and Its Ideas
In the eighth in our series of legal issues that shed light on the often-opaque relationships that underpin the art market, Daniel McClean discusses the case of Damien Hirst’s removed spot painting, Bombay Mix.
In Art Featured
Brazil
The third of our annual focuses on the South American city, including:
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
We profile the Brazil-based artist whose diverse body of work brings together radical anthropology, warped reweavings of the modernist grid and a fascination with the stick-insect family. By Chris Sharp
Art, Urbanism, Modernism, Power…
Claire Rigby discusses how the successes and failures, myths and realities of Brazilian urbanism have come to shape the discourse of so much of its contemporary art.
Arto Lindsay
The American musician and artist discusses how he was drawn into the world of blocos afros, carnavalescos and Bahaian carnival in general, and into a collaboration with Matthew Barney along the way. Interview by Tobi Maier
Cultures and Vultures
Oliver Basciano takes a trip to the northeast of Brazil, to meet artists Berna Reale, Armando Queiroz, Alexandre Sequeira, Thiago Martins de Melo and Éder Oliveira, and discovers that they do things differently there.
Artist Project: Felipe Ehrenberg, Fi Fa Fo Fum
Mail art pioneer Felipe Ehrenberg responds to ArtReview’s request to create a World Cup diary. With an interview by Oliver Basciano
Artist Project: Daniel Lima
The São Paulo-based artist and member of the collectives Frente 3 de Fevereiro, Política do Impossível and CoLaboratório mediates on art, race, politics and cultural institutions.
PLUS:
Yevgenia Belorusets
Despite a focus on difficult and complex situations, the Ukrainian artist’s photographs are devoid of voyeurism or ‘misery tourism’. By Raimar Stange
Graham Harman: Art Without Relations
The philosopher posits what it is about speculative realism that artists are finding so irresistible at the moment.
Artist Project: Meriç Algün Ringborg, A Work of Fiction
The Turkish-born artist creates a text for ArtReview that is composed entirely from word-usage sentences appearing in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Things to do with ArtReview!
In the first in an occasional series, ArtReview selects the shows to see in Copenhagen and beyond during CHART art fair (29–31 August).
In Art Reviewed
Reviews from the UK, USA, Europe and the Rest of the World
UK
The Shape of a Right Statement at Cubitt Gallery, London; Pablo Bronstein: Recent History at Herald St, London; Play What’s Not There at Raven Row, London; Adriana Varejão: Carnivorous at Victoria Miro Mayfair, London; Enantiodromia at Fold Gallery, London; A.R. Hopwood: False Memory Archive at Freud Museum and Carroll/Fletcher Project Space, London; Melanie Smith at MK Gallery, Milton Keynes; Corin Sworn at Inverleith House, Edinburgh.
USA
Larry Clark: they thought i were but i aren’t anymore… at Luhring Augustine, New York; Chatbots, Tongues, Denial, and Various Other Abstractions at Bortolami, New York; Jeff Koons: A Retrospective at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Tara Donovan at Pace, New York; Made in L.A. 2014 at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Jon Rafman: Hope Springs Eternal at Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran / Projects Libralato, Toronto; Tony Greene: Room of Advances at MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; David Hendren: Echo’s Drift at 5 Car Garage and Anna Meliksetian/MJBriggs, Los Angeles.
Europe
Kerry James Marshall: Painting and Other Stuff at Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Venice Architecture Biennale; Enchanted: The Poetics of Wonder at Furini Arte Contemporanea, Arezzo; Susan Philipsz: The Distant Sound at various venues, Norway, Sweden and Denmark; Andreas Angelidakis: Every End Is a Beginning at EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; Festival International d’Art de Toulouse at various venues, Toulouse; Liam Gillick: From 199C to 199D at Le Magasin, Grenoble; Manifesta 10 at State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg; Michael Krebber: Systemic Relevance at Galerie Buchholz, Berlin; Vito Acconci: Now and Then at Grieder Contemporary, Zürich.
Rest of the world
Bayrol Jiménez: El Peso Muerto de los Días Perdidos at Luis Adelantado, Mexico City; A Room Not of One’s Own at Space Station, Beijing.
Books
The Mind’s Eye: The Art of Omni, edited by Jeremy Frommer and Rick Schwartz; Mapping It Out: An Alternative History of Contemporary Cartographies, edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist; #ACCELERATE: The Accelerationist Reader, edited by Robin Mackay & Arman Avanessian; You Are Here: Art After the Internet, edited by Omar Kholeif.
The Strip: A new work from Matilda Tristram, introduced by Paul Gravett.
Off the Record: Gallery Girl – in Brazil
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