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Lost in Translation
Maria Walsh talks to Tacita Dean about heroes, anti-heroes, relationships and the importance of failure.
MW: When I heard the sound piece you did for Radio 3 it struck me that while your work has always been very personal, it seems to be becoming more autobiographical, though not in a literal way.
TD: Yes, I've noticed that too. Berlin Project was the most personal work I had ever done up to that point. I think the reason I am getting more autobiographical is because I've moved to Berlin and suddenly it has given me permission to make work about England.
Location Location
Claire Doherty visits biennales from Sydney to Istanbul, Venice to Liverpool and writes about their influence on the way we think about cities.
‘It seems we may be caught between the biennial as representation of what Jonathan Raban once called the soft city - ‘‘a city made from a complex network of human relationships and individual experiences, a city built around the physical and psychological terrains mapped out by its inhabitant’s’’ - and the internationally astute biennial characterised by what Declan McGonagle has termed, ‘‘wide and shallow [engagement] rather than narrow and deep - sightseeing rather than insight’’. ’
EDITORIAL
Market Matters
On London’s position in the world art market and the relationship between the public and private sectors.
‘We consider London, after New York, to be the second art centre of the world and we wanted to use it as our European ‘‘leg’’, to service European markets out of London. This is where the auctions are, this is where the dealers are.’
PROFILE
Richard Hughes profiled by David Barrett.
‘A burned match rests on the edge of a cheap Formica shelf, the last speck of orange light glowing in its blackened head. We’ve missed the drama - the sparking and flaring into life - and we‘re left with a dying glimmer. This is the moment. Not the dramatic white heat of its brief burning, nor the smoking charcoal carcass, but these few in-between seconds of an ember that will soon succumb to the inevitable. It is this moment, or its cultural equivalent, that Richard Hughes is fascinated by.’
EXHIBITION REVIEWS
Rear View Mirror
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
Mark Wilsher
Steve McQueen
South London Gallery
Cherry Smyth
Liverpool Biennale
Various venues
Craig Burnett
Independents 04
Liverpool Biennale
David Briers
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2004
The Coach Shed, Liverpool
Martin Herbert
Stephen Prina
Screen on the Green and Cubitt Gallery, London
Andrew Wilson
Lari Pittman
Greengrassi, London
Eliza Williams
Ed Ruscha
Whitney Museum of American Art
Mark Godfrey
Living Dust
Norwich Gallery
Lucy Steeds
Martin Creed
Hauser & Wirth, London
Sally O'Reilly
John Bock
ICA, London
Sarah James
Real World: The Dissolving Space of Experience
Modern Art Oxford
Sara Harrison
ARTISTS’ BOOKS
Stephen Bury reviews Mallarmé, the book by Klaus Scherübel (Scheruebel), Cover Version by Jonathan Monk and Implicasphere by Sally O’Reilly and Cathy Haynes.
‘If you were to ask me what I think of when you say ‘‘Bread’’, and I respond with ‘‘toast’’, then my implicaspheres are likely to be small. But if I reply ‘‘raven’’ ... then my implacaspheres are creatively - or perhaps insanely - broad ... ’ Issue 1 is based on string and, within its 8-leaf format, is both a poster and an encyclopaedia... Many different manifestations of string are assembled and illustrated: poultry trussing, the North West London Eruv, string puppets, superstring theory, Duchampian installation, knot theory, knotted strings in the Siberian Gulag to evade the ban on writing in any format there, Robert Crumb’s brother digesting a 21-ft long cotton cloth, etc.’
BOOKS
Paula Feldman finds in Conceptual Art: Theory, Myth, and Practice, ed Michael Corris, ‘a convincing rationale for employing period-based specificity in discussions of Conceptual Art, rather than appropriating it as a universally applicable term.’
ARTLAW
Contracts
Editions or Series: Artists be clear
Invaluable advice from our regular Artlaw columnist Henry Lydiate on avoiding disputes when buying or selling artworks.
ARTNOTES: All the latest news from around the art world
... awards, prizes, commissions, competitions, talks, events, gallery goings-on, studio spaces, internet info, openings, closings, comings and goings, rumours ...
EXHIBITION LISTINGS for November are published on this website.
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