April/May 2013
When Forms Come Alive
Jacqueline Poncelet: In the Making
Outi Pieski – interview: ‘Contemporary art museums in general are spaces for dreaming and experimenting’
Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art
Ronald Davis – interview: ‘Two artists who use perspective in their work are Duchamp and Davis. I’m kind of proud of that’
These Mad Hybrids: John Hoyland and Contemporary Sculpture
Charles Holden’s Master Plan: Building the Bloomsbury Campus* and Warburg Models: The Architecture of the Itinerant Archive**
Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads
Leo Robinson – interview: ‘Human beings need meaningful symbols and narratives in order to understand themselves and their shared connections’
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Art Bin: Landyfill Since emerging from Goldsmiths at the beginning of the last major recession, Michael Landy has pursued particular themes across a sequence of big projects.
In the darkest hour, there may be light: Works from Damien Hirst's murderme collection A range of symbols spring to mind when thinking about death: the hooded figure wielding a sickle, the faceless boatman ferrying the souls of the dead across the River Styx, the watery existence ascribed to the souls in Hades' underworld and Purgatory - the quintessential departure lounge where Christian souls gather waiting to pass into eternal bliss.
Dan Flavin Dan Flavin's work is exemplary. Of what? Yet, he preferred to call his works simply 'proposals', rather than sculptures.
Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint When we speak of executing something - an article, a work of art, a musical composition - we speak of working towards some kind of resolution, of there being a sequence of events causally related and moving forward in time. Sometimes the end product, in the case of art, will stand on its own without a trace of what went before, as if all moments working up to that point have been washed clean, leaving the work immaculate, but in a way, lifeless.
Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture In his seminal essay