Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine articles from January 2000

Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine archives from January 2000

Beat Streuli: l'etonnement de voir.
January 1, 2000... L'oeuvre de Beat Streuli s'attache au monde urbain et a ses habitants, le faisant en dehors de toute emphase, de toute expressivite au sein de l'image, comme de tout recours a une theorie qui justifierait son parti-pris. D'ou peut-etre...

Martha Rosler in conversation: packaging the public sphere.
January 1, 2000... Few contemporary artists have gone as far as Martha Rosier in developing a critical reflection on the functioning, inner tensions of what might be called the "packaging" of the public sphere. As a sphere between civil society and the state,...

Donigan Cumming: the future of documentary video, or the lack thereof.
January 1, 2000... Although he's better known as a photographer, Montrealer Donigan Cumming has, since 1995, been creating a small but potent corpus of video. The work is difficult to classify, located in a murky netherworld between fiction and document,...

Finnish line: starting point (exposition).
January 1, 2000... Musee d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, 18 juin -- 26 septembre Depuis la fin des annees quatre-vingt-dix, la scene artistique scandinave a ete montree avec engouement en Europe. Les expositions Manifesta 1 a la Kunsthalle de...

Abracadabra (exposition).
January 1, 2000... Tate Gallery, Londres, 15 juillet -- 26 septembre Abracadabra! annonce la boite de lessive representee sur l'affiche. 15 ingredients entierement neufs! clame-telle encore, dans un code graphique racoleur emprunte aux annees cinquante, lit...

Loly Darcel (exposition).
January 1, 2000... Galerie Le lieu, Lorient (France), 16 septembre - 17 octobre La recente installation de Loly Darcel a la Galerie Le Lieu de Lorient reste fidele a la volonte de s'inscrire et d'agir dans un milieu de vie. Elle se demarque cependant des...

6e Biennale internationale d'Istanbul. (Tutku ve dalga) (exposition).
January 1, 2000... Istanbul, 17 septembre - 30 octobre En placant la Biennale d'Istanbul sous le signe de la voix, essentiellement appel de l'un a l'autre, son commissaire Paolo Colombo, directeur du Centre d'art contemporain de Geneve, ouvrait l'exposition...

Cueillette (exposition).
January 1, 2000... Centre de sculpture Est-Nord-Est, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, 25 juin -- 24 juillet Situe a 350 kilometres a l'est de Montreal, Est-Nord-Est est un centre de production dedie a la sculpture contemporaine, heritier d'une tradition locale, la...

Raymond Gervais (exposition).
January 1, 2000... Musee d'art de Joliette, 9 mai - 22 aout L'exposition Le regard musicien revele a travers ses oeuvres maintes references a la musique, a laquelle l'artiste Raymond Gervais voue son travail depuis vingt-cinq ans. Constituee d'une selection...

Rober Racine (exhibition).
January 1, 2000... Galerie Rene Blouin, Montreal, October 12 - November 20 It would be conventional, if superficial, to locate the adventures of science in the realm of technological rationality while placing the language of poetry in another -- the realm of...

Cynthia Cox (exhibition).
January 1, 2000... SAW Gallery, Ottawa, July 26 - August 21 In The Opening of Vision: Nihilism and the Postmodern Situation, David Michael Levin writes: In our logocentric, patriarchal society... the body's natural gift of political vision remains for...

Promise (exhibition).
January 1, 2000... Toronto, YYZ Artists' Outlet, September 15 - October 16 Eight videos make up the collection "Promise," curated by Deirdre Logue. Logue has dedicated the exhibition to "different states of becoming" and remains loyal to this concept despite...

Making it new! (The big sixties show) (exhibition).
January 1, 2000... The Glenbow Museum, Calgary, April 10 - June 13 The Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, July 24 - October 10 The late summer afternoon that I viewed "Making It New! (the big sixties show)," the gallery spaces were all but empty of other...

War zones (exhibition).
January 1, 2000... Various venues, Vancouver, April 17 -- September 26 "War Zones" is an ambitious program of exhibitions, billboards, films and panel discussions organized by Presentation House Gallery in collaboration with several Vancouver venues. Curators...

Global conceptualism: points of origin 1950-1980 (exhibition).
January 1, 2000... Queens Museum of Art, New York, April 28 -- August 29 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, December 19 -- March 5, 2000 Miami Art Museum, Miami, September 26 -- November 2 The automatic response to a show as large, as rich and as geographically...

Jane and Louise Wilson (exhibition).
January 1, 2000... Serpentine Gallery, London, September 14 -- October 31 The format of the Wilson twins' exhibition verges on the cinematic. The space is divided into three viewing areas, three capacious rooms each containing four large screens arranged in...

Miguel Rio Branco (exhibition).
January 1, 2000... Centre Cultural de la Fundacio "la Caixa," Barcelona, September 21 -- December 5 Born in 1946 in Las Palmas, on the Canary Islands, to the family of a Brazilian diplomat, Miguel Rio Branco's own life is as nomadic as his images suggest. He...

Matisse and Picasso.
January 1, 2000... Yve-Alain Bois, Matisse and Picasso documents how the rivalry between the so-called pillars of the north and south of modernism is played out between the 1930s to the 1950s in terms of a continual process of artistic one-upmanship. To help...

Karel Teige 1900-1951: l'enfant terrible of the Czech modernist avant-garde.
January 1, 2000... Eric Dluhosch and Rostislav Svacha, eds., Karel Teige, an influential Czech figure in the European avant-garde during the 1920s and 30s, had an extraordinarily creative output as painter, poet, book designer, critic and theorist of art and...

Mythe du progres artistique.
January 1, 2000... Olga Hazan, L'ouvrage d'Olga Hazan defend une these forte: depuis Les Vies de Giorgio Vasari, le mythe du progres structure l'histoire de l'art. Celuici est etroitement lie a la representation mimetique, et tout particulierement a la...

Performing hybridity.
January 1, 2000... May Joseph and Jennifer Natalya Fink, eds., The term "hybridity" has reemerged and is currently being used in cultural theory as a disruptive discourse that is both anti-imperial and anti-authoritarian. The word originated in the...

Ruthless hedonism: the American reception of Matisse.
January 1, 2000... John O'Brian, The best kept secret on Matisse is a small pocket book on him from 1953 by Clement Greenberg. O'Brian wisely scatters quotations from this book throughout this impeccably researched volume and abuts them with many others from...

Quand l'oeuvre a lieu: l'art expose et ses recits autorises.
January 1, 2000... Jean-Marc Poinsot, Pour la linguistique contemporaine, tout acte de parole est susceptible de deux types d'analyse differents qui s'ajoutent pour en constituer le sens: une analyse semiotique se penche sur la seule logique interne de...

Mois de la photo a Montreal: le souci du document.
January 1, 2000... A son apparition, c'est essentiellement comme document que l'image photographique s'est vu attribuer une fonction. C'est comme document qu'on lui a reconnu un pouvoir de revelation. Mais qu'en est-il aujourd'hui? Qu'en est-il de la pratique...

Conditions humaines portraits intimes/ Human conditions intimate portraits.
January 1, 2000... A son apparition, c'est essentiellement comme document que l'image photographique s'est vu attribuer une fonction. C'est comme document qu'on lui a reconnu un pouvoir de revelation. Mais qu'en est-il aujourd'hui? Qu'en est-il de la pratique...