Art writings and papers
A tease is what you need: a conversation with Paul Chan and Lilith Wes
Mousse Magazine—
Before winning the Hugo Boss Prize in 2014—an honor that carries with it a $100,000 grant and rights to a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum—Paul Chan had spent fifteen years crafting art projects that ranged from a series of
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Nothing is neutral: an interview with Andrea Bowers
Mousse Magazine—
As I entered the gallery on the day before the opening of Andrea Bowers new solo exhibition at Kaufmann Repetto, my eyes fell on a small and beautiful photorealist drawings of a smiling women with butterfly wings on her back.
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Peter Doig at Fondation Beyeler
Mousse Magazine—
I’ve always loved the Beyeler Foundation’s building. Embedded in the Berowerpark in the Basel suburb of Riehen, the structure itself, designed by Renzo Piano, is a beautiful coming-together of porphyry-covered walls, a glass roof and a glazed façade looking out
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Rudolf Stingel at Massimo De Carlo
Mousse Magazine—
In 2004, Rudolf Stingel transformed the floor of Massimo De Carlo’s Milan gallery into a giant mirror, and hung six of his now iconic “gold paintings” on the walls. The painterly surface of the works was embellished with damask patters
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Caio Reisewitz at International Center of Photography
The Brooklyn Rail—
This summer, Midtown had a distinct case of Brazilian fever, and not just because of the flocks of soccer fans crowding local sports bars and tourists traps to watch the FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Museums also joined in the
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João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva: “Papagaio”
Mousse Magazine—
Aeschylus, Archimedes, Aristophanes, Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Cicero, Copernicus, Darwin, Descartes, Euclid, Hume, Jarry, Jung, Kant, Kepler, Locke, Lucretius, Molière, Newton, Nietzsche, Parmenides, Pessoa, Plutarch, Plato, Popper, Pythagoras, Shakespeare, Wells, Wittgenstein, and Zeno are just some of the philosophers, writers, poets
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Crazy Skewers: a short story on Patrick Tuttofuoco’s “Ambaradan”
DIS magazine—
A fictional, delirious short story commissioned by DISmagazine and written using exclusively quotes, references, bits and pieces of information from books, songs, movies and real life situations that have inspired, influenced or shaped “Ambaradan”, a solo show of Patrick Tuttofuoco at Milan’s Studio Guenzani
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Boring but Totally Fantastic: A Conversation with Raganr Kjartansson
The Brooklyn Rail—
Born and raised into a family of actors and theater professionals in Reykjavík, Iceland, Ragnar Kjartansson has been tightrope-walking between reality and performance for most of his life. It is therefore not by chance that many of his durational performances
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Erwin Wurm: “Synthesa”
The Brooklyn Rail—
I’ve always associated the work of Erwin Wurm with the transitory, the momentary, the moving. The most vital aspect of his practice was his fluid concept of sculpture and his documentation of this fluidity. Take, for instance, the series One-Minute
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