Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine articles from April 2000

Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine archives from April 2000

Viewing positions Steve McQueen.
April 1, 2000... Steve McQueen uses the medium of film as an artist. We experience his film work as installations within the gallery. Drawing upon structural filmmaking of the 1960s and performance art, McQueen makes us conscious of the formal elements of film:...

Paul Graham poetic journeys in a political landscape.
April 1, 2000... There is something strangely anticipatory about Paul Graham's photography. The densely compressed meanings in his images, without prophesying, seem to be proleptic statements about the condition of first England, more recently Europe, and...

Mike Kelley (exposition).
April 1, 2000... Magasin, Grenoble, 16 octobre -- 16 janvier Mike Kelley nous donne a voir avec deux pieces majeures, Framed and Frame (Miniature Reproduction "Chinatown Wishing Well" built by Mike Kelley after Miniature Reproduction `Seven Star Cavern:...

Ex-change (exposition).
April 1, 2000... La Criee, Rennes, 6 novembre -- 30 decembre Appeler des rencontres et donner des rendez-vous: c'est bien ce gout pour l'echange qui se trouve au coeur d'Ex-change, exposition rassemblant sept artistes internationaux et rouvrant les portes...

Rae Davis and Barbara Sternberg (exposition).
April 1, 2000... Articule, Montreal, 11 septembre -- 24 octobre La salle est plongee dans l'obscurite. Deux ecrans verticaux, suspendus au centre de la premiere moitie de la salle, nous accueillent dans le flux changeant des images de Rae Davis a droite et...

Michel De Broin (exposition).
April 1, 2000... Centre des arts actuels SKOL, Montreal, 9 octobre -- 7 novembre Ou est le danger? Quelle matiere dangereuse? Le complexe matiere/ forme a longtemps constitue le schema conceptuel des diverses reflexions sur l'art. De tout temps l'art a...

Dominique Berube (exposition).
April 1, 2000... Galerie de l'UQAM, Montreal, 22 octobre - 27 novembre Malgre le caractere paradoxal et insolite de la formulation du titre de son exposition Pour une archeologie du vivant, les photographies que Dominique Berube presente a la Galerie de...

Nicholas Baier (exposition).
April 1, 2000... Centre des arts actuels Skol, Montreal, 13 novembre - 11 decembre Avant de rentrer dans la galerie, un communique donne le ton: Liquidation Niko & Cie: Je me debarrasse de tout. Tout va casser, tout va se briser, se decolorer, tout va...

Machines festives (exposition).
April 1, 2000... La Centrale, Montreal, 13 novembre - 11 decembre Resolument tournees vers le mouvement, l'agitation et le bruit... Voila comment Pamela Landry nous introduit aux oeuvres qui composent l'exposition Machines festives. Elle en est la...

Claire Savoie (exposition).
April 1, 2000... Galerie Axe NEO-7, Hull, 7 novembre - 12 decembre Le travail de Claire Savoie explore depuis quelque temps les proprietes physiques du son. A la galerie Axe NEO-7, l'artiste a reconstruit une oeuvre precedemment inauguree a Montreal a la...

Louise Masson (exhibition).
April 1, 2000... Espace 502, Belgo Building, Montreal, October 2-30 Louise Masson's recent exhibition of the series of paintings, "La Cite" reflects her visual heritage and her physical environment. The work recalls the traditions of the past conjunction of...

Felt (exhibition).
April 1, 2000... FELT The Museum for Textiles, Toronto, October 13 -- January 30 In her curatorial statement for "FELT," Kathryn Walter outlines a mythological origin for the curious fabric from which the exhibition draws its name: According to...

Provisions (exhibition).
April 1, 2000... PROVISIONSparMercer Union, Toronto, November 4 -- December 18 In her curatorial statement for "FELT," Kathryn Walter outlines a mythological origin for the curious fabric from which the exhibition draws its name: According to popular...

Fluffy (exhibition).
April 1, 2000... FLUFFY Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, October 16 -- December 31 It has been clear for the past decade that Japan, the home both to miniaturization and technology, has become cuteness' new playground. There, cute is a commodity and Hello...

Marian Penner Bancroft (exhibition).
April 1, 2000... Presentation House, Vancouver, November 6 -- December 17 In July of 1997, Marian Penner Bancroft sailed with a group of one hundred and fifty people by boat from Kiev to Odessa along the Dnieper River in the Ukraine (formerly South Russia)....

Cildo Meireles (exhibition).
April 1, 2000... New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, November 19 -- March 5 In many of his works, Cildo Meireles takes us bodily inside the space of the work, an inside understood to chiasmically enfold its outside. In Volatil ("Volatile," 1983-9), we...

Michael Craig-Martin (exhibition).
April 1, 2000... Peter Blum, New York, November 20 -- January 22 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 21 -- March 14 Michael Craig-Martin once wrote, "I do not believe that the art object is the symbol of the art idea. It is its embodiment"...

Mark Dion (exhibition).
April 1, 2000... Tate Gallery, London, October 26 -- February 27 Contemporary projects in the U.K. that take the museum as their primary site are clearly divided into two categories. The first is typified by those projects triggered by the almost manic...

Hiromix (exhibition).
April 1, 2000... Entwistle Gallery, London, November 19 -- December 18 Contemporary photographic practice brings us a wealth of visual pleasure. Over the last few years there seems to be a particular dialogue occurring between photography that is defined...

After the wall (exhibition).
April 1, 2000... Moderna Museet, Stockholm, October 14 -- January 16 "After the Wall" is the first large-scale survey of the art scene in the former Communist countries, and focuses on the work of the younger generation that emerged over the last ten to...

Tatsuo Miyajima (exhibition).
April 1, 2000... Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, November 2 -- December 22 Death drives and obligates reflection, if not some kind of work, that braves the nagging enigma called time. Our waxing and waning conceptualizations of time, indeed, might be little...

Optic of Walter Benjamin.
April 1, 2000... Alex Coles, ed., More books on Benjamin, and still the pile grows.... Benjamin's prose breeds commentary like vaccine in a lab. -- Peter Osborne, 1988. Prefaced with the above observation, the third volume of the annual journal...

Two-way mirror power: selected writings by Dan Graham on his art.
April 1, 2000... Alexander Alberro, ed., Dan Graham's texts in Two-Way Mirror Power address every aspect of his artistic production: video, television, film, performance, sculpture and conceptual magazine pieces. It includes unpublished essays, four...

Collection suivi de l'avarice.
April 1, 2000... Gerard Wajcman, Un ouvrage fort inspirant vient de paraitre chez Nous, editeur de Caen. Sous le titre precis mais large tout de meme de Collection, Gerard Wajcman, que l'on a pu entendre lors du colloque Art et psychanalyse 2, Ma maniere...

Billboard: art on the road.
April 1, 2000... Laura Steward Heon, ed., This catalogue documents and contextualizes artistic explorations of that format of communication simultaneously stigmatized as the cause of urban blight and held aloft as the paragon of democratic speech -- the...

Sur l'experience de la ville.
April 1, 2000... Investir l'espace public pour interagir avec la communaute, tel etait le fondement du projet Sur l'experience de la ville, serie d'interventions in situ organisees a Montreal, du 29 aout au 14 decembre 1997, par le centre Optica. Axee sur...