Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine articles from July 2000

Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine archives from July 2000

Claude Closky: une deshumanisation dont vous etes le heros.
July 1, 2000... C'est en une parfaite concordance avec l'epoque, la mode, la morale, la passions, selon les termes baudelairiens, que l'on aborde les travaux de Claude Closky, rant nous sommes captives par les processus, methodes, rangements, taxinomies,...

Access codes and avoided objects in the work of Brian Jungen, Josiah McElheny and Cornelia Parker.
July 1, 2000... The history of artists working in or on the museum is closely tied to the interventionist project of institutional critique. As delineated by it most articulate champion. Benjamin Buchloh, institutional critique stems from Marcel Duchamp's...

There's a bomb in this exhibition: Kendell Geers charged.
July 1, 2000... Most of us have probably asked the following questions at some stage in our lives: Did Professor Plum do it in the library with the revolver? Did Mrs. Peacock do it in the Billiard Room with the spanner, or did Miss Scarlet do it in the...

Sarah Sze (Everything that rises must converge) (exposition).
July 1, 2000... Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, 11 decembre - 12 mars Nee en 1969, la jeune artiste americaine Sarah Sze s'est fait remarquer du milieu de l'art international (entre autres, en 1999 a la Biennale de Venise et dans une...

Micropolitiques (exposition).
July 1, 2000... Magasin - Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, 6 fevrier - 30 avril A l'heure ou la question de l'engagement revient en force en France, a travers notamment le modele (le mythe) sartrien, l'exposition Micropolitiques agit comme un...

Mariko Mori(: dream temple) (exposition).
July 1, 2000... Musee Rooseum, Malmo, 4 mars -- 28 mai L'interet des artistes pour un art object, une esthetique trash et l'informe etait une tendance majeure dans l'art contemporain des annees 1990. Pour un spectateur connaisant l'oeuvre de Cindy...

Lynne Marsh (Venus -- I see blue) (exposition).
July 1, 2000... Oboro, Montreal, 8 janvier - 13 fevrier Depuis plusieurs annees deja, Lynne Marsh etudie les planetes. Elle en a meme fait une serie. A chaque astre, elle dedie une couleur specifique, sable, orange ou bleu mer par exemple. Elle a pu, a...

La ou ca est, doit advenir le je (exposition).
July 1, 2000... Galerie de l'UQAM, Montreal, 14 janvier - 19 fevrier La ou Ca est, doit advenir le Je : ce titre peut paraitre assez incongru, voire insense, dans le contexte d'une exposition. Il faut savoir que cette phrase conduit d'abord a Freud, puis a...

Guy Pellerin (Chronique des couleurs) (exposition).
July 1, 2000... Occurrence, Montreal, 15 janvier - 13 fevrier La sequence brun bleu rose jaune rose jaune n'offre aucune prise au sens ni a la narration. Une fois de plus, Guy Pellerin expose le spectateur a une epreuve pure de la couleur, rythmee par la...

Clive Robertson (Talking archive toolshed) (exhibition).
July 1, 2000... Art Metropole, Toronto, December 11 Clive Robertson's Talking Archive Toolshed (1999) inhabited Art Metropole as a time-based performance work, The Confessional (1999). The work situated itself in the space as artist-as-archive within an...

Ken Bass and Susan Detwiler (Horned wall; Bee movie) (exhibition).
July 1, 2000... Mercer Union, Toronto, January 13 - February 26 Strange animals inhabit the front room of Mercer Union: long thin shapes with multiple tails lie in waiting on the floor while others have scaled the wall. The creatures are mutants with no...

Private investigations (exhibition).
July 1, 2000... Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, February 26 - April 9 Voyeurism, surveillance and the technological developments that enable these are central to analyses of city structures. Yet, theorists who focus on this area, such as Mike...

Geoffrey Crewdson (Twilight) (exhibition).
July 1, 2000... Luhring Agustine, New York, February 19 - March 25 The son of a psychoanalyst, conceptual photographer Geoffrey Crewdson tends to imbue his images with symbolic meaning, seeing a chill in nature and, more particularly, suburbia. Now in his...

Sam Taylor-Wood (Third party) (exhibition).
July 1, 2000... Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, January 22 - February 26 The title of Sam Taylor-Wood's video installation, Third Party (1999-2000) is one whose convenience of meanings deserves more unpacking than I can offer here. But like a good pun,...

Renee Green (Shadows and signals) (exhibition).
July 1, 2000... Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, January 21 - March 26 Bit by bit, Renee Green's work is taking hold in the interstices of history. Small things, marginal stories and seemingly irrelevant events unfold into alternative paths through the...

Jaume Plensa (Chaos-saliva) (exhibition).
July 1, 2000... Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Palacio de Velazquez, Madrid, February 3 - April 30 "One thought fills immensity": William Blake wrote these words more than two hundred years ago as one of the proverbs included in his essential...

Nikki S. Lee (Tales of the city) (exhibition).
July 1, 2000... Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, January 28 - March 1 The Korean artist, Nikki S. Lee, is something of a cultural migrant, not just from her native country, which she left six years ago to live in the U.S.A., but also across and around the...

Live in your head: concept and experiment in Britain, 1965-75 and Martin Creed(: works) (exhibitions).
July 1, 2000... Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, February 4 - April 2 Southampton City Art Gallery, January 14 - March 26 Leeds City Art Gallery, May 11 - July 16 Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, August 19 - September 30 Camden Arts Center, London, November 10...

Conceptual art: a critical anthology.
July 1, 2000... Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson, eds., Anthologies of artist and critical writings can powerfully shape our understanding of a movement or tendency. It is perhaps impossible to definitively map the boundaries of conceptual art, but the...

Art qui nous est contemporain.
July 1, 2000... Rose-Marie Arbour, La question de l'accessibilite de l'art traverse cetre derniere publication de l'historienne d'art Rose-Marie Arbour, mais elle la traverse de biais, comme une question qui permet de poser une autre question, celle --...

Arcades project.
July 1, 2000... Walter Benjamin, When it was left in his care as the librarian of the Bibliotheque Nationale in 1940, little did Georges Bataille know that in his hands lay Benjamin's magnum opus, the missing fragment to his oeuvre. Keenly aware of The...

Passionate camera: photography and bodies of desire.
July 1, 2000... Deborah Bright, ed., Well, this hunky anthology is more than simple carnal distraction. Bright's aim is to compose a sort of memorial to the photographic representation of queer sexual desire and the 1980/90's rightwing political and...

Foodculture: tasting identities and geographies in art.
July 1, 2000... Barbara Fischer, ed., In this thoughtful new compilation, Barbara Fischer outlines the ways in which artists and theorists alike have been concerned with food and notions of taste in their attempt to explore art, identity and the effects...

Looking up: Rachel Whiteread's water tower.
July 1, 2000... Louise Neri, ed., What is more public than the distribution of water? What other component of urban life gathered and distributed into our private spaces could be so critical to survival? Such questions are subtly evoked by Rachel...

Making the body beautiful: a cultural history of aesthetic surgery.
July 1, 2000... Sander L. Gilman, In this intriguing book, the cultural and literary historian Sander Gilman explores the social and political forces behind the development of aesthetic surgery. By tracing the early practices of surgery to Hellenistic and...

Reading the contemporary: African art from theory to the marketplace.
July 1, 2000... Olu Oguibe and Okwui Enwezor, eds., It has been ten years since "Les Magiciens de la terre," the self-proclaimed "first world-wide exhibition of contemporary art." While the show had good intentions in its claim to question the false...

Fin de l'experience esthetique.
July 1, 2000... Richard Shusterman, L'art peut-il survivre a l'apparente fin de la modernite et a toute absence de progres ? Le declin du monde institutionnel de l'art signifie-t-il la fin de l'experience esthetique, ou bien de nouvelles voies, offertes a...

Marcel-li Antunez Roca: Epifania: Arte facto & ciencia.
July 1, 2000... Ce tres beau catalogue est en realite un livre-catalogue divise en deux parties bien distinctes : Arte facto & ciencia est le titre d'une compilation de six essais, coordonnee par Claudia Giannetti (directrice du MECAD\Media Centre d'Art i...