ArtReview April 2015
ArtReview’s April issue is loosely themed around artists exhibiting in Germany this month who produce work that comes about as the result of specific responses to particular contexts—cover artist Koki Tanaka, Gregor Schneider, Renzo Martens and Renata Lucas among them. Here’s what else you’ll find inside:
In Art Previewed
Ten April exhibitions you won’t want to miss including:
William Pope. L at Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles; Daniel Steegmann Mangrané at Esther Schipper, Berlin; Liz Larner at Modern Institute, Glasgow; Richard Prince at Blum & Poe, Tokyo; and Jan Fabre at MUKHA, Antwerp
Points of View—our writers on what’s happening in the art world and beyond:
J.J. Charlesworth on public–private funding partnerships
Maria Lind on “cosmism” and contemporary art
Sam Jacob on the reality TV mashup of the pop-cultural and the Paleolithic
Laura McLean-Ferris on how social media might take some of the horror out of social dance
Mike Watson on whether zombie abstraction is something more than just the product of a vacuous sociopolitical landscape
Lucas Ospina on the Guernica effect
Jonathan Grossmalerman visits the Armory Show
Karen Archey on Berlin off-space New Theater
Great Critics and Their Ideas:
Jean Baudrillard on Chinese art depicting Mao ironically, interviewed by Matthew Collings
Other People and Their Ideas:
Jessica Morgan, director of the Dia Art Foundation, interviewed by Tom Eccles
In Art Featured
Koki Tanaka
The Japanese artist on the pressures of art history, working with communities, the “Fukushima effect” and how to sell palm fronds, by Hou Hanru
Gregor Schneider
The ‘unheimlich’ interventions of the German artist, by Ory Dessau
Renzo Martens
The Dutch provocateur who’s launched an independent cultural economy with plantation workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, by J.J. Charlesworth
Renata Lucas
The Rio-based artist whose interventions into public space sketch links between the urban fabric and political-economic power, by Oliver Basciano
Africa: Art in Context V Ibrahim El-Salahi
The Sudan-born artist discusses the role of art in the social and political life of his homeland, interview by Mark Rappolt
In Art Reviewed
Reviews from around the world including:
Adventures of the Black Square at Whitechapel Gallery, London
Koen van den Broek at Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels
Mathieu Mercier at Mfc-Michele Didier, Paris
Et in Libertalia Ego: A Project by Mathieu Briand at La Maison Rouge, Paris
Darren Almond / Carl Blechen at Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Ákos Birkás at Eigen + Art, Leipzig
Angelo Plessas at the Breeder, Athens
Sanja Iveković, Franco Vaccari at P420 Arte Contemporanea, Bologna
Ana Prada at Galeria Estrany de la Mota, Barcelona
Chromophobia at Gagosian Gallery, Geneva
Daniel Silver at Frith Street Gallery, Golden Square, London
History Is Now: 7 Artists Take On Britain at Hayward Gallery, London
Nil Yalter at MOT International, London
Marlie Mul at Vilma Gold, London
green postcard at Ibid., London
Luis Camnitzer at Alexander Gray Associates, New York
Ryan McNamara at Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Lucy Skaer at Murray Guy, New York, and Peter Freeman, Inc, New York
Alec Soth at Sean Kelly, New York
Charles Atlas at Luhring Augustine, New York
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook at Sculpture Center, New York
Carlos Bunga and Olivier Mosset at Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles
Michael Parker at Human Resources, Los Angeles
Amilcar de Castro at Galeria Marília Razuk, São Paulo
La Llamada del Dios Extraño at Diéresis, Guadalajara
Gary Carsley at Grey Projects, Singapore
Come to [what] end? at Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City
Plus Books, The Strip and Gallery Girl