I am very in, in, in. Christov-Bakargiev made no value judgement as to which position was better. Yet the statement got ArtReview thinking. What does it mean for an artist to be in the artworld, and is it possible for an artist to be outside it? Can artists ever push away the hoopla — money, pr, dinners, parties and market and curatorial trends — that surrounds the stuff they make, and, in the cases of the lucky ones, boosts its value? It had been planning this issue for a while.
Just a range of different positions on how art engages with the world around it. Be brave: read on. Courtesy Clearing, New York and Brussels. Included in the Lyon Biennale. With nothing. Courtesy the artists. Included in Momentum 8, Moss. Photo: Thys Dullaart. Photo: Joerg Lohse.
Courtesy the artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin. Courtesy Galerie Lelong, New York. Photo: Joshua White. Ominous cavorting recurs in Notes Toward a Model Opera , a three-channel video based on didactic ballet dances commissioned by Madame Mao during the Cultural Revolution, and inserting them into a history of dance stretching from Paris to Johannesburg.
At this stage, one doubts a trip to Lyon would change his mindset much. Some of the New Yorksure to excess hormones. The compareswept away with a walking stick. Los Angeles branch are urethane paintings,. But Palestine is also deeply into quality of their own.
A third chance, really, since discography running to some 20 solo albums, black-and-white photographs. Photo: Agostino Osio. Courtesy Fondazione HangarBicocca, Milan. Photo: Laurent DeBroca. Courtesy the artist. Courtesy the artist and Mary Mary, Glasgow. Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco. Nixon is fascinated by intervals, by containing structures, by thresholds: he photographs, in pinpoint large-format monochrome, the very young and the very old; cities; doorsteps, skin, lovemaking.
