May 2007 in Artforum
Artforum
May 2007 in Artforum
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This month in Artforum: “The Return of Op.” With two major survey shows on Op art running almost concurrently in Europe and the United States—at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, and the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio—contributing editor David Rimanelli and art historian Sarah K. Rich assess the exhibitions and reflect on the resurgence of interest in, and the contemporary resonance of, this dizzying yet long-moribund movement.
“The pain and disequilibrium that are absolutely constitutive of Op—the way it rattles the cage of ‘everyday life’—point to what isn’t future-fantastic in our technocratic and media-glutted modern world.” —David Rimanelli
And: “Address Unknown.” Artforum contributing editor Yve-Alain Bois discusses the sculpture of Henri Matisse on the occasion of a major exhibition of his works that travels next month to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, after having opened at the Dallas Museum of Art and the Nasher Sculpture Center. Although the artist’s sculpture has often been slighted—by both art historians and Matisse himself—Bois argues that Matisse is one of the most important and modern sculptors of the first half of the past century.
“Matisse’s sculptures are all about volume and about what, in volume, exceeds our purely visual and intellectual understanding and summons our bodies.” —Yve-Alain Bois
Also in April: Scribbles, 2007. Sol LeWitt died at age seventy-eight last month. Artforum presents in memoriam a project the artist made for the magazine this past February.
In addition: Carol Armstrong visits “WACK!” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and “Global Feminisms” at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, and asks, “Why feminist art?”; Helen Molesworth similarly considers the relationship between feminism and art, focusing in particular on “Shared Women” at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; Artforum contributing editor Bruce Hainley looks at the early artwork formerly known as Richard Prince’s; Hannah Feldman explores the sights and sounds of Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla; Martin Herbert examines the controversy surrounding Steve McQueen’s stamp project to honor British soldiers who have died in the Iraq war; and Anthony Vidler surveys the Gordon Matta-Clark retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Plus, Artforum looks ahead to the summer: frequent contributor Jennifer Allen sits down with the curators of Documenta 12; Tim Griffin has a conversation with Robert Storr, curator of the 52nd Venice Biennale; Elizabeth Schambelan talks with the curators of Skulptur Projekte Münster ’07; and fifty shows are previewed by writers around the globe.
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