Tag: Review

(published in Fillip #5, 2007)

With its dark purple walls, broad drapery curbing outside light, and manifold corners isolating objects from each other, even the exhibition’s layout is designed to downplay itself. One must seek out titles and dates in a handout- that is, if one’s dependence on ‘metadata’ is insufferable.

pdf: Taking Down Names

Written 2009, published in Contemporary Art and Investment Magazine, 2010

A neon sign, a crooked fluorescent tube, some glass cases and abusive warnings clumsily taped on the walls; a bag of laundry and books, a case of porno DVDs, a printed out drawing, some balls of tape, a generic painting, and a plant; at first glance PAWNSHOP, a project by Anton Vidokle and Julieta Aranda, who jointly run e-flux, may appear as a handy curatorial concept, using the thematic of pawnshops to assemble a roomful of curious objects.

pdf: PAWNSHOP

For Jon
(2010)

Whether or not this list of artists is considered a representation of “original geniuses,” an implication of starting from their work, and remaking it, is a challenge to authorship, drawn out by virtue of what we might call the remake’s honesty. A remake chooses not to disguise the fact its self-knowledge is based on and owed to other sources. Beginning with an apparently deliberate framing of one’s relationship to art, specifically of one’s normal and daily research of art history, the scouring of books and information assumes a democratic starting point. The artist is a student for life.

pdf: remake