Lillian Davies

Common denominator

2012-02-13T14:42:00.003+01:00

Artist mounir fatmi recently asked me write on his ongoing project La Quatrième Couverture. My essay is currently posted on his website.

Black Apple Falls

2012-02-06T10:16:00.001+01:00

The February 2012 issue of Artforum includes my review of Guillaume Leblon's recent exhibition at Fondation Ricard.

The Third Stripe

2011-11-30T09:26:00.007+01:00

The December 2011 issue of Artforum includes my review of Alexandre Singh's recent solo show at art:concept.

Critical Studies

2011-11-29T09:34:00.002+01:00

This fall, I worked with a group of fantastic students following Dr. Vivian Rehberg's Critical Studies course at Parsons Paris. Meeting at the Bibliotheque Kandinsky, we researched the history and content of 20th century and contemporary art magazines such as Artforum, Artnexus, Beaux Arts, Frieze, and Turps Banana. Readings included Sarah Thornton's Artforum chapter from Seven Days in the Art World, and my interview with Cyprien Gaillard for UOVO.

"Not a picture, but an event"

2011-11-07T10:07:00.001+01:00

Katy Siegel's Abstract Expressionism has just been published by Phaidon. For the book, I wrote the biographies for everyone from Alfred H. Barr to Jack Tworkov. Available from Amazon.

Suspect Language

2011-10-18T17:26:00.005+02:00

Mounir Fatmi's artist's book, Ghosting, has just been released. The publication includes an essay, Suspect Language, I wrote on the artist's recent practice.

"What would possess someone to make this?"

2011-09-20T22:23:00.000+02:00

Ian Pedigo's first monograph, Ian Pedigo: Works 2007—2010, has just been published by Southern Alberta Art Gallery. Inside you'll find my interview with the artist. Available on Amazon.

Little universes

2011-09-17T14:43:00.002+02:00

On view through October 9th at Galerie Vallois, Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira's first solo exhibition in Europe. I wrote the press release.

Doingbird

2011-06-17T14:50:00.004+02:00

If you can find a copy, issue 15 of the fashion magazine doingbird features my article on Cyprien Gaillard's recent practice, as well as a short article I wrote on Taryn Simon's project Contraband.

Mistletoe

2011-06-08T17:17:00.003+02:00

The Summer 2011 issue of Artforum includes my review of Thu Van Tran's recent exhibition at Martine Aboucaya.

Chance Ray of Sunlight

2011-06-08T17:05:00.003+02:00

Yesterday evening I gave a talk for L'Association des Amis du Palais de Tokyo on Yann Sérandour's current exhibition at gb agency, Un temps nuageux avec la possibilité d'un rayon de soleil (open through June 18).

Les Ambassadeurs

2011-05-09T20:17:00.003+02:00

The May 2011 issue of Artforum includes my review of Bruno Peinado's recent exhibition at Galerie Loevenbruck.

"I like paper and pencil."

2011-03-22T23:33:00.001+01:00

The Spring 2011 issue of Roven includes my interview with Vija Celmins.

La petite ceinture

2011-02-03T17:50:00.002+01:00

Read my review of Abraham Cruzvillegas's recent exhibition at Chantal Crousel in the February issue of Artforum.

"Artist's gallery"

2011-02-03T17:46:00.004+01:00

Another art world biography to add to your bookshelves. Annie Cohen-Solal signed my copy of her well-researched, opinionated portrait of Leo Castelli at her recent lecture at the American Library of Paris.

International Institute for Important Items

2010-12-01T19:54:00.002+01:00

My review of Louise Hervé and Chloe Maillet's recent show at Marcelle Alix has been published in the December 2010 issue of Artforum.

Dove Allouche

2010-11-01T11:18:00.001+01:00

My review of Dove Allouche's recent exhibition, Black Smokers, at Gaudel de Stampa appears in the November 2010 issue of Artforum.

De Kooning

2010-09-22T18:27:00.004+02:00

Rarely is writing this good about art. I just finished Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan's Pulitzer Prize winning biography of the Willem de Kooning, and I recommend it.

Independent London

2010-09-08T11:45:00.008+02:00

Read my assessment of London' independent art scene on the Texas Contemporary Art site, Glasstire.

Westlondon projects, London

DYNASTY

2010-05-24T17:57:00.002+02:00

Read my preview of DYNASTY, a group show opening on June 11th at Palais de Tokyo and the Musée d'art Moderne, in the May 2010 issue of Artforum.

Daleko

2010-04-02T12:10:00.004+02:00

My review of Marcelline Delbecq's solo exhibition, Daleko, recently shown at Galerie Xippas' project room La Chambre has been published in the April issue of Artforum.

This Place You See

2010-03-07T16:45:00.002+01:00

My review of curator Jennifer Teets' group exhibition "This Place You See Has no Size at All" at Kadist Foundation (winter 2009—2010) has been published in the Spring 2010 edition (issue 65) of Artlies.

Odyssey

2010-02-19T09:39:00.002+01:00

Stephan Crasneanscki, Troie (Troy), 2009, two color photographs, 31 x 61" overall. From the series “Le Syndrome d’Ulysse” (The Ulysses Syndrome), 2009.

My review of Stephan Crasneanscki's show at Ilan Engel & Louise Alexander Gallery has just been published on Artforum.com. Read here.

French TV

2010-02-03T21:46:00.004+01:00

Grégory Derenne, Plato Durand, oil on canvas, 2009

My review of Grégory Derenne's first solo show at Galerie Bertrand Grimont (a commercial space that opened just over a year ago on rue de Montmorency 75003) has just been published on Artforum.com. Read here.

Plaid Houses

2010-01-21T21:34:00.003+01:00

My review of Laure Tixier's solo show, Plaid Houses, currently on view at Galerie Polaris, has just been published on Artforum.com. Read here.

Corral

2010-01-21T21:30:00.003+01:00

Last week, I went to see artist Davide Balula at his studio in Noisy-le-Sec. This week, my report on the studio visit has been published by Art in America. Read here.

Planning Maximum Impact

2010-01-15T22:04:00.003+01:00

Davide Bertocchi, Monumento a D'Ignoti, 2007

Read my interview with Paris-based artist Davide Bertocchi, my first contribution to Art in America: Planning Maximum Impact: The Art of Davide Bertocchi.

January 2010 Artforum

2010-01-04T22:51:00.004+01:00

Read my review of Samuel Richardot's solo exhibition at La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec in the January 2010 issue of Artforum.

Let's Talk about Painting

2009-12-07T09:04:00.007+01:00

Benjamin Swaim

Les sculptures de ma mere

2008

Read my interview with French painter Benjamin Swaim, just published on artslant.com.

Cities of Gold and Mirrors

2009-12-02T09:01:00.008+01:00

Still from Cyprien Galliard's Cities of Gold and Mirrors, 2009

Read my reaction to this year's edition of the Frieze Art Fair in The Ten List: The Unexpected at an Art Fair on Glasstire.com here.

In Search of Melodies

2009-11-08T20:01:00.005+01:00

My review of Saadane Afif's current show at Galerie Michel Rein has just been published on Artforum.com. Read here.

Pseudo-Sculptural

2009-10-05T17:40:00.006+02:00

My interview with artist Samuel Richardot, currently exhibiting new work at La Galerie, Noisy le Sec (through November 21) has just been published on artslant.com. Read here.

October Artforum

2009-10-01T10:52:00.007+02:00

For the October issue of Artforum, I reviewed Aurélien Froment's recent show at Galerie Lucile Corty.

Also in this issue, Cyprien Gaillard (who I interviewed in February 2007 for UOVO magazine, link to interview here) presents an artists' project. See here.

Printemps de Septembre

2009-10-01T10:23:00.005+02:00

Last weekend, I went to Toulouse for the opening of Printemps de Septembre, a festival of exhibitions now in its 19th year.

For Artforum's Scene & Herd, I made report on the weekend. Read here.

And you can read Michael Wilson's recent Scene & Herd on the Lyon Biennale, where he describes the French art scene as "rather insular" here.

Meredyth Sparks

2009-10-01T09:55:00.004+02:00

Meredyth Sparks, Extraction, 2009

My review of Meredyth Sparks's current exhibition at Frank Elbaz has just been published on Artforum.com.

Read here.

Fabrice Gygi

2009-09-23T18:28:00.006+02:00

Fabrice Gygi, Strap Paint, 2009, aluminum, wood, polyester

My review of Fabrice Gygi's current show at Chantal Crousel is now online on artslant.com.

Read here.

Belleville

2009-09-12T12:08:00.007+02:00

Poster for Chloé Maillet and Louise Hervé's performance last Wednesday at the new gallery, Marcelle Alix.

See my report on the openings in Paris's Belleville Wednesday night, just published on Artforum.com's Scene & Herd blog. Read here.

Samuel Richardot at Noisy-le-Sec

2009-09-12T08:16:00.011+02:00

Samuel Richardot

La Galerie, Center for Contemporary Art Noisy-le-Sec

September 19 – November 21

Quietly re-defining painting in the lexicon of contemporary art, the young French artist Samuel Richardot (born 1982) will open a major solo show at La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec, in September. A 20-minute ride from central Paris on the RER E, the space, now under the direction of Marianne Lanavère, is pushing the boundaries of the Parisian scene – giving visibility to an international program as well as the city’s banlieue.

“One of the fascinating things about Samuel is his choice to cultivate a practice (painting) that the French art world has been battling with,” explain Daniele Balice and Alexander Hertling, of BaliceHertling, the gallerists that gave Richardot his first solo show in Paris in the spring of 2008. Curator Benjamin Thorel had introduced them to Richardot’s work, just as the artist was finishing his studies at the Ecole National Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris. Although currently based in Berlin, Richardot works outside of trends in contemporary German painting. “In Germany there is a pictorial tradition that cannot be denied, fed and maintained by the schools such as Leipzig and Dresden,” says Richardot, “and now there is too much of a certain type of painting.”

For his show at La Galerie, Richardot will present new paintings – some as large as 6.5 x 8 feet – abstract process works as well as works drawn from a more figurative experience of landscape. Concerning Richardot’s approach to his canvas, Thorel has written that “instead of covering it and taking it over,” for the artist, “the problem is to stretch its spaces, to stimulate its contradictions and instability, and to give rhythm to its surface.”

This exhibition also marks an important transition in Richardot’s practice as he moves into the third dimension – presenting a large sculptural installation composed of materials including cardboard, wood, and images from magazines. “Recuperating, recycling, and in a certain way pulling from the shadows” elements that Richardot finds “at the margins of the creation of [his] canvases.”

— Lillian Davies

Sarkis in Istanbul

2009-09-02T17:05:00.010+02:00

For the September issue of Artforum, I've written a preview of the forthcoming retrospective of Armenian artist Sarkis at the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art - opening next week.

The preview is also online. Read here.

Spy Numbers

2009-08-19T11:29:00.005+02:00

This week, I've published a review with Artslant.com on Palais de Tokyo's current show, Spy Numbers. Read here, along with a my recommendation to see Martin Martin Margiela's Elle Décoration Suite at the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimonie.

Summer shows

2009-08-03T16:26:00.008+02:00

Martin Parr, Egypt, Giza. The Sphinx, 1992. From the series "Small World"

My first contribution to the website, Artslant.com, a review of Martin Parr's "Planet Parr" currently at Jeu de Paume and Laurent Grasso currently at Espace 315, has just been published. Read here.

Art Lies

2009-07-17T17:02:00.005+02:00

The Summer issue of Art Lies magazine is out today. Inside you will find my review of UT-graduate Ian Pedigo's recent solo show at Galerie Cardenas, Paris. More details here.

Boule to Braid

2009-07-15T12:05:00.006+02:00

Installation shot, Boule to Braid, Lisson Gallery, London. Summer 2009.

My review of Richard Wentworth's exhibition at Lisson Gallery has just been published on Artforum.com. Read here.

Anonymous Curators

2009-07-10T17:03:00.008+02:00

Installation shot, We Would Like to Thank the Curators (Again) Who Wish to Remain Anonymous, Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris, June 20—July 25. Alex Cecchetti, The Diver, 2007 and Sarah Tritz, Installation, 2009

My review of the group exhibition, We Would Like to Thank (Again) the Curators Who Wish to Remain Anoynmous, at Galerie Anne Barrault, just published on Artforum.com. Read here.

Poetics of Space

2009-07-10T16:59:00.007+02:00

Installation shot, Poetics of Space, Marian Goodman, Paris, June 19—July 24

My review of Anja Schneider's exhibition, "Poetics of Space," at Marian Goodman Paris, has just been published on Artforum.com. Read here.

Rew-Shay

2009-06-25T17:57:00.006+02:00

My review of Jonathan Monk's Rew-Shay: Hood Project Part II, on view at Artpace San Antonio through September 6, has just been published on Artforum.com. Read here.

Fables et Fragments

2009-06-22T16:34:00.007+02:00

Michel Perot's work is included in "Fables et Fragments", at Beaux-Arts, Paris, an exhibition of work by the twenty students in the class of 2008 who received the "Felicitations" of the jury.

Summer 2009

2009-06-06T21:31:00.003+02:00

My review of Dominique Petitgand's recent exhibition at L'Abbaye de Maubuisson appears in the Summer 2009 issue of Artforum.

Danh Vo

2009-05-16T17:55:00.009+02:00

My article on artist Danh Vo and the Kadist Foundation, Paris will appear in the summer 2009 issue of VMAN.

Vitamin 3-D

2009-05-15T18:45:00.007+02:00

I am a contributing author of Phaidon's forthcoming Vitamin 3-D. For the book, I wrote on the work of Falke Pisano, Rebecca Warren, David Altmejd, Mounir Fatmi, Camilla Low and Tara Donovan.

Available May 23, 2009. Pre-order from Amazon.

La Recherche

2009-05-10T14:59:00.005+02:00

My short review on "La Recherche," a group show currently on view at Air de Paris, has just been published on the VMAN website. Read here.

Laurent Montaron

2009-05-08T16:37:00.005+02:00

My review of Laurent Montaron's exhibition at the Institute for Contemporary Art, Villeurbanne, France, has been published in the May 2009 issue of Artforum.

Untitled

2009-05-08T16:26:00.011+02:00

Victor Man, Untitled, 2009, Vintage furs and copper wire

My review of Victor Man's exhibition at Centre d'art et du Paysage, Ile de Vassivière, has been published on Artforum.com. Read here.

May 6, 2009

2009-04-08T12:45:00.013+02:00

Michel Perot, L' Ancienne église de Colombes, 2008, oil on canvas, 187 x 250 cm

Brachfeld Gallery

together with Lillian Davies

present an exhibition of work by

Michel Perot

May 7—17, 2009

Opening reception Wednesday May 6

6—9pm

Brachfeld Gallery

78 rue des Archives

75003 Paris

Tuesday—Sunday, 2—7pm

Brachfeld Gallery is co-programmed by Dorothée Perret and Ed Brachfeld.

View press on the show:

Artslant

Paris, LA

Flatland

2009-04-08T12:44:00.009+02:00

Elizabeth McAlpine, Tilt (in 6 Parts) (detail), 2009

My review of Elizabeth McAlpine's current show at Laura Bartlett Gallery, London has just been published on Artforum.com. Read here.

Grey

2009-04-08T12:42:00.008+02:00

Alison Moffett, Quarantine, graphite and collage elements on paper, 2008

My review of Alison Moffett's current show at Schleicher & Lange, Paris has just been published on Artforum.com. Read here.

Roven

2009-03-06T16:17:00.006+01:00

The first issue of Roven, a review of contemporary drawing, will be launched at the third edition of the Salon du Dessin Contemporain (March 26–29). I have contributed an interview with Sam Durant to this issue.

Yves Lives

2009-02-25T09:38:00.014+01:00

On Monday evening, February 23, 1200 guests filled the Grand Palais for Christie's auction of Modern and Impressionist works from the Collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé. Read my report on the spectacular sale on the V Magazine blog.

My photos from the Monday evening sale have been published on Artforum.com.

French Touch

2009-02-12T23:50:00.006+01:00

Dieter Detzner

Jean and Baptiste

2008

My Scene & Herd entry on the Berlin Paris gallery exchange openings last weekend in Paris and Lee Ranaldo and Leah Singer's opening at cneai have just been published on Artforum.com. Read here.

Red Dress for a Tree

2009-02-07T16:52:00.007+01:00

Ludivine Caillard

Red Dress for a Tree

2008

My review of Ludivine Caillard's solo show, currently on view at Galerie des Galeries, has just been published on Artforum.com. Go to text.

Yann Sérandour

2009-02-02T21:34:00.007+01:00

My review of Yann Sérandour's recent exhibition at gb agency has just been published in the February edition of Artforum in print.

Joseph Beuys

2009-02-02T20:26:00.006+01:00

Joseph Beuys

Akt (Nude)

1952

My review of the exhibition of drawings by Joseph Beuys at Hauser & Wirth, London, just published on Artforum.com. Read here.

Episode III

2009-02-02T18:10:00.011+01:00

Renzo Martens

Episode III

2008

still from a color video, 88 mins

Read my review of Dutch artist Renzo Martens's latest film, Episode III (shot in the Congo) on Artforum.com.

Idoménée

2009-01-26T22:26:00.011+01:00

Just published, issue 3 of idoménée magazine, which includes my interview with Jesper Just and my article on his film Some Draughty Window, both featured in the Photography section. Find here.

Jesper Just

still from Some Draughty Window

2007

FIAC 2008: Retrospective

2009-01-26T16:53:00.008+01:00

Pierre Bergé at FIAC 2008 speaking about The Sale of the Century for Radio Classique.

Another look at FIAC 2008, featuring my interviews with participating gallerists Frank Elbaz, Wolfgang Henze, David Juda, Gregor Muir, Andreas Lange, Natalie Seroussi, John Thomson and Jan Wentrup. View film.

Culture Shock

2008-12-23T16:10:00.012+01:00

Mladen Bizumic

Two for One—Le Corbusier #8

2007—2008

collage on paper

From the series "Le Corbusier vs Mies van der Rohe," 2007—2008

My review of Patrice Joly's exhibition, "Phoenix vs Babel" at Fondation Ricard has just been published on Artforum.com. Read here.

Anarchitekton

2008-12-18T16:27:00.010+01:00

Jordi Colomer

Anarchi- teckton

2002—2004

My review of Jordi Colomer's solo show at Jeu de Paume has just been published on Artforum.com. Read here.

Artist-run Paris

2008-12-09T15:12:00.009+01:00

Point Ephèmére,

Paris

My article on curatorial and artists' residencies and artist-run spaces in and around Paris has just been published by Glasstire. Read here.

Authentic

2008-12-09T14:59:00.006+01:00

My review of Heidi Wood's evolving exhibition of paintings and photographs at Galerie Anne Barrault has just been published on Artforum.com. Read here.

Romantic Delusions

2008-12-03T19:10:00.011+01:00

Jesper Just

still from Romantic Delusions, 2008

Look out for the new issue of idoménée magazine, featuring my interview with artist Jesper Just, and my essay on his film Some Draughty Window.

From the Voice to the Hand

2008-11-22T10:14:00.010+01:00

My Critics' Pick on Melik Ohanian's exhibition at Le Plateau, "From the Voice to the Hand," has just been published on Artforum.com. Read here.

Artissima

2008-11-22T10:12:00.011+01:00

Several of my photos of artists, gallerists and curators were included in Artforum.com's recent Scene & Herd coverage of the 2008 edition of Artissima art fair. See here.

Collecting Contemporary Art

2008-11-09T18:41:00.016+01:00

Collecting Contemporary Art, a guide to collecting that I co-edited with Andrea Bellini and Cecilia Alemani, is now available through Swiss publishers JRP Ringier. I also contributed interviews with collectors Blake Byrne, Guillaume Houzé, David Roberts and Jérome Tordo.

Palais Intrigue

2008-10-30T01:01:00.008+01:00

Clement Rodzielski, Jalouse 1, 2008

My latest Artforum.com Scene & Herd — following FIAC and the Paris openings last week — has just been published. See here for all the highlights, including Marc Jacobs in a purple kilt.

L'Epoche

2008-10-29T21:03:00.007+01:00

Etienne Chambaud, L'Epoche, 2007

And the latest film I made with ARTIVI, interviewing my favorite gallerists at FIAC in the Cour Carrée du Louvre on October 23, 2008. What is new?

Glass Palace

2008-10-29T17:55:00.010+01:00

This is the reportage I developed with ARTIVI on ideas of Modernism, interviewing my selection of gallerists at this year's edition of FIAC. Video here.

Hanging Garden

2008-10-29T17:52:00.009+01:00

Mona Hatoum

Hanging Garden

2008

My ARTIVI film of FIAC's Tuileries sculpture commissions, right here.

Futurism

2008-10-29T17:47:00.005+01:00

I interviewed Didier Ottinger, curator of the exhibition "Le Futurisme a Paris" at the Pompidou, for ARTIVI. Watch here.

Antidote

2008-10-29T17:43:00.008+01:00

Cyprien Gaillard, Real Remnants of Fictive Wars VI, 2007

Watch my ARTIVI interview with Antidote curator Guillaume Houzé.

Geographical Analogies

2008-10-29T17:38:00.009+01:00

Cyprien Gaillard, Geographical Analogies #4 (Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Crenshaw, Inglewood), 2007

My ARTIVI interview with curator Nicolas Bourriaud about his show "La Consistance de Visible" and the artists he selected to participate in the 10th edition of the Prix Fondation Ricard. Watch here.

From the Voice to the Hand

2008-10-29T17:23:00.015+01:00

Melik Ohanian, 10,000 Letters, 2008

My second film with ARTIVI on Melik Ohanian's current project in Paris, From the Voice to the Hand. Watch here.

Fountain

2008-10-29T17:19:00.016+01:00

Amal Kenawy, Non Stop Conversation, 2007

My review of Amal Kenawy's current show at La B.A.N.K., Paris has just been published on Artforum.com. Read here.

Epistrophy

2008-10-18T13:03:00.006+02:00

My review of Timo Nasseri's current exhibition at Schleicher+Lange has just been published on Artforum.com. Read here.

Water features

2008-10-10T14:40:00.008+02:00

My first film with ARTIVI, featuring Jeff Koons's current exhibition at Versailles, has just gone online. What would Louis XIV think?

Polystyrene

2008-09-30T22:43:00.007+02:00

Gyan Panchal

Plantian 1

Polystyrene foam

2008

My review of Gyan Panchal's recent exhibition at Galerie Edouard Manet will appear in the October issue of Artforum magazine.

Chlorine

2008-09-30T21:35:00.009+02:00

Michel Perot

The Venetian, Las Vegas

oil on canvas

2008

My coverage of the opening of Michel Perot and Samuel Richardot's exhibition at Le bbb, Toulouse, part of my report on "Printemps de Septembre," has just been published in the Artforum Diary. Read here.

The English Channel

2008-09-11T17:35:00.006+02:00

Tacita Dean

Amadeus, 2008

Film on view at Marian Goodman, Paris through October 18.

High Seas

2008-09-04T22:15:00.005+02:00

My review of Huang Yong Ping's exhibition, "Frolic" (The Curve, Barbican, London, until September 21) – titled after a ship involved in the Opium Wars – has just been published on Artforum.com. Read here.

Spiral Jetty

2008-08-23T09:19:00.008+02:00

Robert Smithson

Spiral Jetty

Yesterday, Austin-based ...might be good published my review of the Pompidou Centre's summer exhibition, Traces du Sacré. Read here.

This piece followed my recent review for ...mbg on the Kadist Foundation's show, Like an Attali Report, but Different. Go to text.

On the island

2008-08-21T17:51:00.005+02:00

Centre International d'Art et du Paysage

Ile de Vassivière

Hubert Duprat's solo exhibition, massive centrale, is currently on view at the Centre International d'Art et du Paysage on the Ile de Vassivière (July 6—October 25). My review of the show has just been published on Artforum.com.

James Bond Island

2008-08-21T14:59:00.007+02:00

Andreas Gursky

James Bond Island I

2007

In March 2007, I covered Andreas Gursky's opening at White Cube and Spruth Magers, London for Artforum's Scene & Herd.

Le Lac. Le Mensonge.

2008-08-20T18:02:00.010+02:00

Davide Balula

The Lie was Plain. The Lake a Stain.

2008

This summer I worked with Davide Balula on his artist's book, Stomach Rainbow, published in conjunction with his exhibition Le Lac. Le Mensonge. (The Lie was Plain. The Lake a Stain) (16 May — 31 August) at Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers.

UOVO's just invited Davide Balula to be the Music Editor for our next issue.

In Search of the Miraculous

2008-08-19T17:00:00.005+02:00

Bas Jan Ader

In Search of the Miraculous

lost at sea, 1975

A Sea Change

2008-08-18T09:15:00.011+02:00

For the August 4, 2008 issue of The New Yorker, Peter Schjeldahl wrote about "After Nature", a group show currently at the New Museum (July 17—September 21), that I just saw in New York. Curator Massimiliano Gioni's exhibition, "After Nature", referencing Werner Herzog's Lessons in Darkness (1992), Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic The Road (2006) and W.G. Sebald's book-length poem After Nature, reveals, according to Schjeldahl, "a shift of emphasis, from surface to depth, and a shift of mood, from mania to melancholy, shrugging off the allures of the money-hypnotized market and the spectacle-bedizened biennials circuit. (In fact the underappreciated Whitney Biennial hinted at the mutation.) It's fashion auditioning as a sea change."

The Swimmers

2008-08-06T18:28:00.003+02:00

Peter Rostovsky

The Swimmers, 2004

oil on linen

Swimming in the ruins

2008-08-05T13:33:00.011+02:00

Cyprien Gaillard

The Lake Arches, 2007

1:43 min

In February 2007, I interviewed Cyprien Gaillard for Uovo magazine. Go to interview: "Nothing is Really Real"

A Bigger Splash

2008-08-04T22:14:00.003+02:00

David Hockney

A Bigger Splash, 1967

Tate Britain

Before a Bigger Splash

2008-08-04T21:53:00.008+02:00

Jonathan Monk's "Time Between Spaces", which I covered in my 54th review for Artforum.com, was on view at Palais de Tokyo and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, and featured Before a Bigger Splash and After a Bigger Splash (both 2006).

Go to review.

Artforum Critics' Pick: Tatiana Trouvé

2008-08-04T21:21:00.012+02:00

I started writing reviews for Critics' Picks on Artforum.com in January 2006. For my 55th review, I chose Tatiana Trouvé's exhibition "4 between 3 and 2" at Espace 315 at the Centre Pompidou (25 June - 29 September, 2008), beginning: A tightly bound presentation of new work by Italian artist Tatiana Trouvé, presented on the occasion of her winning the 2007 Prix Marcel Duchamp, thrusts the fourth, temporal dimension between her three-dimensional sculptures and two-dimensional graphite drawings on paper: On each end of the gallery, black sand pours from a tiny hole in the wall onto the floor, slowly building an iridescent cone... Read on.

Pool #6

2008-08-04T18:21:00.008+02:00

Ed Ruscha

Nine Swimming Pools, Pool #6

1967