Art: The Early Work of Edward Kienholz at LACMA
The Fanzine11.23.09
In Southern California in the 1960s Edward Kienholz started creating assemblages which were often scathing narratives of social and political…
Interview with Justin Bartlett
Adam Ganderson11.22.09
Justin Bartlett draws pictures that are both complicated and primitive at the same time. The imagery is detailed but taps into unsettling, basic primeval fears that are embedded in the human psyche. Which is probably why he’s becoming increasingly in demand for metal related album cover art and merchandise. It’s sort of reminiscent of wandering alone in the woods at night and then through the branches witnessing some ancient unspeakable act that can only be communicated visually. Either that or a twisted horror version of Maurice Sendak. After this interview, I sent him an email asking if Sendak was an influence and his response was: "No, not really, I never owned Where the Wild Things Are, but I was really into this page from Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham." —Adam Ganderson
if we were immortal: Slater Bradley at Team Gallery
Jon Leon11.17.09
‘Much has been written about New York artist Slater Bradley since his debut at Team Gallery ten years ago. Some have sung his praises, some his pitfalls. In some cases facileness is implied, in others, eminence. No matter what or how you call it, Bradley’s youthful obsessions are always engaging, never boring, and totally worth it,’ Jon Leon writes about the artist’s lastest show at Team, if we were immortal.
In the In Between: a Conversation with Galit Eilat and Chen Tamir about the Mobile Archive
Thom Donovan10.10.09
The Mobile Archive holds roughly 1,000 videos by Middle-Eastern and Eastern European artists. It has travelled throughout Europe for the past three years and is now being exhibited at Art in General in NYC (September 24th through October 17th). Thom Donovan interviews two key curators for the Archive: Galit Eilat, who founded the M.A. through her work at the Israeli Center for Digital Art in Holon, Israel, and Chen Tamir, who has selected videos from the archive for the current Art in General show. The interview also discusses Eilat’s Liminal Spaces – a collaborative project which researches spaces in between bureaucracies, mental and physical geographies, legal systems and what remains beyond the law in the more fluid realm of culture. Other topics discussed are the politics of curation, Israeli military strategy, and questions about the submergence of the "liminal" within popular American culture and intellectual discourse.
Art: The Mobile Archive
The Fanzine10.06.09
The Mobile Archive is an archive of approximately 1,000 videos by Middle-Eastern and Eastern European artists that have travelled throughout Europe…
Doug Aitken’s Migration of Light
Zoey Mondt09.28.09
“Draping a building in light and image" Doug Aitken "appropriates the architecture, transforms it into art, his art, and demands greater responsibility and participation from the viewer who in turn navigates their own perspective and experience" as Zoey Mondt writes, taking us through the plazas and grottoes of his wandering of light, migration, now at Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
Art: JESSE BRANSFORD: IV = 369 (Luna) & JULIET JACOBSON: Earnest Corpse
The Fanzine09.12.09
Art blossomed Saturday night up and down, EST. In New York with the Seven in One! Seven in One-Third!! opening of Karsten Krejcarek and others at…
Art: Vincent Fecteau at Matthew Marks
Casey McKinney09.12.09
This month on Fanzine author Derek McCormack writes about a show of Vincent Fecteau’s sculptures he saw at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008,…
The Fairy’s Hole: Vincent Fecteau’s Caveman Sculpture
Derek McCormack09.11.09
Author Derek McCormack takes us down the fairy’s hole, from the fairy grottoes of Georgian England on down through André’s beauty parlor on The Flintstones, to the modern, colorfully garish, ponderously beautiful, holey fake forms of Vincent Fecteau, now on view at Matthew Marks in New York City.
