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ArtAsiaPacific no. 57(March/April 2008)
ArtAsiaPacific no. 57 blazes ahead into 2008 by investigating themes of landscapes, paradise and destruction through the work of artists, curators and initiatives devoted to changing the art map. This issue begins with ArtAsiaPacific senior editor Don Cohn’s investigation of the work of Taoist pyrotechnician Cai Guo-Qiang, who rose to fame with his explosion events at sights around the world, as he prepared for a landmark survey exhibition at New York’s Guggenheim Museum. Cai, who was raised in China and also spent a seminal period in Japan before moving to New York, has transformed the iconic Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda with a site-specific installation that explodes, as Cohn envisions, “in orgasmic cataclysm, immediately thereafter reverting to a yin state of cool repose and achieving a desirable balance in the process.”
“Scientific documentation, creation of internet promotion and digital repository infrastructure, and utilization of the collections and archives of the State Museum of Contemporary Art”
2300 works of the Costakis Collection and Archive as well as of the Museum’s Greek Collections were digitized and documented. A new portal has been established and is about to f
unction fully within this month, while the educational CD addressing to students is already being distributed to relative Institutions, Schools, Universities etc. Costakis Collection is representative of all artistic movements and trends of the Russian Avant-Garde, one of the most innovative and interesting artistic periods of the world art, which flourished in Russia during the first three decades of the 20th century. The collection consists of 1277 works of art (paintings, designs, constructions, porcelains e.a.) and rich documentary material of Russian avant-garde artists such as K. Malevich, L. Popova, V. Tatlin, A. Rodchenko, I. Kliun, G. Klutsis, S. Nikitrin, O. Rozanova, V. Stepanova, M. Matiushin, P. Filonov e.a. The Greek Government purchased the Costakis Collection in 2000 and after the decree of the Ministry of Culture it came into the S.M.C.A.’s possession.
The web magazine, Rosa B, is a new space for reflection and discourse on the cultural practices of today. The web magazine, Rosa B, is a new space for reflection and discourse on the cultural practices of today. By choosing the medium of digital creation and the Internet rather than paper as the means of circulation, Rosa B believes that an innovative writing criticism, with temporal spaces and devices is better suited and the only possible text to reflect art today. Rosa B encourages approaches that are liberated, more inventive, less formatted.
Hámos Gusztáv: A sziget fele nem félsziget, 2008 március 14-én 18.00-kor nyílik a Pixel Galériában, (Millenáris, Budapest), még: cinovid, balkon-2001, c3/Hamos
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March 2008 / Issue No. 69
“ABSTRACTION” Investigating “Abstraction” both as visible form and as hidden social structure, both in artistic practices and in the increasingly “culturalized” economy in general, the contributions gathered in this issue attempt to go beyond established critical and art-historical parameters by exploring and exploiting -- rather than negating -- the specifics of modern and contemporary art production, distribution and reception.
Protest in Paris 1968: Photographs by Serge Hambourg March 12 - June 1, 2008 University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive2626 Bancroft Way, Berkeley CA 94720 Arrested protestor at the demonstration of artists, writers, and students, Place du Palais Royal, July 16, 1968; digital print from 35mm black-and-white negative; 25 3/8 x 19 3/4 in.; Hood Museum of Art, gift of the artist, 2006.90.31; photo courtesy of the artist.
bonus track: Denis Kraskovic: Viva Frida tranzitblogdk blogja
