March 2010 / Issue No. 77
“THE PAINTING ISSUE – NOT”The in-house working title for this issue of “Texte zur Kunst” was “Painting is Not the Issue,” alluding to how its articles make a case for a “painting beside itself,” as David Joselit put it in “October” 130. More precisely, this issue offers a theoretically and art-historically grounded consideration of a certain kind of contemporary painting practice. For this kind of painting, what is at stake is not the search for a fundamental essence of painting, as (defining) artistic medium, as specific genre or as symbolic institution. Rather, the practice we focus on here deliberately sets out to undermine the ostensible integrity of painting as a closed-off area of aesthetic activity. Informed by the legacy of institutional critique, shaped by the context of a long-since digital age, it engages with the economic, medial and discursive networks of which it forms a part, both in terms of production and exhibition.
Plus reviews from Berlin, Philadelphia, Zurich, New York, London, Vienna, Frankfurt am Main, Los Angeles and Linz
Exclusive new artists’ editions:
Thomas Demand, Wolfgang Tillmanns, Jeff Wall
ENGLISH CONTENT
HELMUT DRAXLER
PAINTING AS APPARATUS
Twelve theses
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS “PAINTING”
A conversation between Isabelle Graw and Achim Hochdörfer
NIKLAS MAAK
MANUFACTUM ON CANVAS
On the widespread success of figurative painting
CAROLINE BUSTA
FRAMES AND NETWORKS
On Blake Rayne
JOSEF STRAU
EXPLORATION OF THE SELF
On Birgit Megerle
DAVID JOSELIT
BLANKS AND NOISE
On Cheyney Thompson
SABETH BUCHMANN
A MEDIUM UNDER DIFFERENT CONDITIONS
On Silke Otto-Knapp
LUKE COHEN
CATACHRESES
On R. H. Quaytman
REVIEWS
SHEPHERD STEINER
ALLERGY PATCH
On “Why Photography Matters As Art As Never Before” by Michael Fried
LANKA TATTERSALL
ROMANCING THE STONE
On Cyprien Gaillard at Galerie Sprüth/Magers, Berlin
ALEXANDER ALBERRO
THE APPRENTICESHIP OF ARSHILE GORKY
On Arshile Gorky at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
YATES MCKEE
PERVERSION, ABSTRACTION AND THE LIMITS OF THE HUMAN
On Paul Chan at Greene Naftali, New York
SVEN LÜTTICKEN
IMAGES COMMENTING ON IMAGES
On Harun Farocki at Museum Ludwig, Cologne, and Raven Row, London
RACHEL HAIDU
FAUX TERRAIN
On Gabriel Orozco at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
RHEA ANASTAS
MATERIAL HOLES
On Josephine Pryde at Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
DAVID BUSSEL
THINK LOCAL, ACT GLOBAL?
On “Silberkuppe” at Hayward Gallery Project Space, London
ARTISTS’ EDITIONS
THOMAS DEMAND
“TEXTE ZUR KUNST”, 2010
WOLFGANG TILLMANNS
“in flight astro (ii)”, 2010
SPECIAL ARTIST’S EDITION
JEFF WALL
“Corner Store”, 2009
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