ART REVIEW AUGUST
The Green Issue
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The re-launched ArtReview in July, received a warm welcome from many in contemporary art. Now the magazine moves onto the August issue with recently appointed Mark Rappolt as the Editor at the helm of the worlds leading contemporary art magazine.
Can Art Help Protect The Environment?
Brian Wallis, Curator of the International Center of Photography in New York is aware of the shift in from portraiture and street life to more traditional notions of landscape and artists using nature metaphorically.
His thoughts provoke the question; Can art help protect the environment? Critics, artists, gallery owners offer their answers.
Chris Burden Lightening Up
Chris Burden is an enormously influential conceptual artist who began exhibiting in 1971. He received instant fame that year with a performance piece called Shoot in which a friend, at his request, shot him in the arm. Since then his work has investigated the workings of money, power, military might in a past that has seen him try to destroy galleries and challenge governments. Now hes exhibiting a collection of antique lamps, ArtReview asks has Chris Burden finally mellowed out?
Do androids dream of making art?
Roxy Paines form is worked and reworked by an array of hidden robotic arms that poke, prod and generally shift the configuration of the pieces.
For more than a decade Roxy Paine has built elaborate constructions that seem to answer the question: How would a machine make a painting or a sculpture?
Amsterdam Art Pilgrimage
The city will never be big enough to be an Art capital and has suffered in recent years, under the narrow minded policy makers unable to enthuse the new art groups. Now things are changing. A lot of cultural institutions are on the move, within the centre and also on the edge of the city as the directors are making room for the young and fresh talent.
Get the contemporary art guide to Amsterdam and find out where to go for Contemporary Art, Creative Inspiration and also where one can interact with art.
As part of the guide theres also a must see list of Amsterdams Summer Exhibitions.
Good to be Bad
Marcus Verhagen catches up with German painter Albert Oehlen, who first came to prominence alongside Martin Kippenberger during the 1980s and has influenced a generation of artists, from Chris Ofili to Glenn Brown, to talk about bad painting, artists who lie and why heavy metal is better than punk.
In addition to the main features theres Terry Gilliam on Tideland, Hiraki Sawa on video art, Marius Wattz on why software is the new paint.
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