C: International Contemporary Art articles from February 1998

C: International Contemporary Art archives from February 1998

Arkipelag, Stockholm.
February 1, 1998... Stockholm is this year's recipient of the roving title "Cultural Capital of Europe" - one of the initiatives/advantages of fin de siecle economic cooperation in Europe. Organizers in Stockholm have foregone a mega-show approach in favour of...

Pipilloti Rist.
February 1, 1998... She's everywhere! While there are still places that you cannot see the work of white-hot Swiss video artist, Pipilloti Rist, they are getting fewer. Following a year of biennales (Venice, Lyon, Kwangju), Rist was recently named artistic...

Bill Viola.
February 1, 1998... At the Whitney, a mid-career retrospective of works by video artist Bill Viola includes 15 installations and 25 video-tapes, as well as drawings and notebooks from the past 25 years. Several room-sized installations combine Viola's obsession...

Miroslaw Balka, Doris Salcedo, Rachel Whiteread (exhibition).
February 1, 1998... Art Gallery of Ontario's curator of contemporary art, Jessica Bradley brings together three remarkable artists for the exhibition "Displacements" this spring: Miroslaw Balka (Poland), Doris Salcedo (Columbia) and Rachel Whiteread (Great...

www.CMagazine.com.
February 1, 1998... Visit our website and click the button "special edition" to enter the world of cyber-C. Here you will find the cover page for a special web-only edition of C international contemporary art - including articles, reviews, artists' projects and...

Stupidity is kool: ... recent work of Sadko Hadzihasanovic.
February 1, 1998... In the storefront window of Artcite (in Windsor, Ontario), a cute, if lumpen, plaster figurine of a boy on a hobby horse twirls round on a record-turntable base at an unrelenting 33 1/3 rpm. The piece is our introduction to "Stupidity is Kool"...

Revisiting curatorial controversy: a review of questions that remain after paintings by a serial killer are forgotten.
February 1, 1998... Winnipeg, 26 October 1996 - Plug-In, an artist-run exhibition space supported primarily by public funding, was to launch its newly renovated space by staging a splashy, high-profile group show called "The Moral Imagination." Gallery curator...

Running fence.
February 1, 1998... The fence begins in the sea and ends quite suddenly, arbitrarily even, fourteen miles inland in the foothills of the Otay Mountains. It was built by the US Army Corps of Engineers in 1994, out of recycled metal landing strip - the most visible...

Light into/out of dark (New Science, exhibition).
February 1, 1998... In conversation with artist Blair Brennan about the "New Science" exhibition at the Edmonton Art Gallery, he said he was reminded of a scene from the original film version of D.O.A. (1949). In the scene, a doctor - a man of science - enters a...

Reconceiving (Mary) Kelly.
February 1, 1998... With the appearance in 1975 of "Post Partum Document" - a complex work based on observations of her infant-toddler son - Mary Kelly arrived on the international scene. The gutter press may have fulminated over her use of "dirty nappies," but...

Letter from London (Eng.).
February 1, 1998... February 1998 The big exhibition in London last season was undoubtedly the Royal Academy's "Sensation, Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection." That is Charles Saatchi, the millionaire advertising magnate, and as the bright sign...

Objects of desire (exhibition).
February 1, 1998... Hayward Gallery, London Paul Cezanne's Still Life with a Ginger Jar and Eggplants (1890-94), the opening statement to the Hayward Gallery's exhibition "Objects of Desire, The Modern Still Life" is blue, avant-garde and so delicious it was...

Patrick Traer & Janet Werner (exhibition).
February 1, 1998... Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon Art invites our stare; but Saskatoon-based artists Patrick Traer's and Janet Werner's show "trance" jarred viewers into a self-conscious awkwardness. You felt it immediately on entering. Werner's ten painted...

Letter from Calgary.
February 1, 1998... February 1998 Exhibitions by printmakers and First Nations artists filled many galleries last season and continue this winter. Joane Cardinal-Schubert's retrospective at Calgary's Muttart Public Art Gallery, "Two Decades" (Oct 9-Nov 7),...

Letter from New York.
February 1, 1998... February 1998 After extensive renovations, the re-opening of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center has been eagerly awaited. Originally a public school, the 125,000 square-foot facility in Long Island City, Queens (one subway stop from Manhattan)...

New photography/Kunie Sugiura (exhibition).
February 1, 1998... Museum of Modern Art / Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, NYC In "New Photography 13 - Recent Works by 4 Contemporary Photographers," this year's incarnation of the annual exhibition, MoMA introduces an eclectic collection containing conviction,...

Letter from Montreal.
February 1, 1998... February 1998 Since becoming C's Montreal editor five years ago - around the same time that the Musee d'art contemporain moved to its new building in downtown Montreal - I have had occasion to read and write frequently in these pages about...

Raymonde April (exhibition).
February 1, 1998... Musee d'art de Joliette, Joliette, Quebec With "Raymonde April, Les Fleuves invisibles," curator Nicole Gingras offers a retrospective tour of the places, people, objects and themes the photographer has visited over the course of her...

T-Race (exhibition).
February 1, 1998... Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago What is the colour of flesh? Are we really white, black, brown, red, yellow? If so, what are the implications of these differences? These are some of the questions addressed in Byron Kim's large...

Letter from Chicago.
February 1, 1998... February 1998 There is a general malaise in the Chicago art world these days. Exhibition schedules have slowed down, offering little beyond the expected; feelings of frustration permeate the air. The city's institutions seem to lack vision...

Toshio Shibata (exhibition).
February 1, 1998... Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Respected for his photographs of the Japanese landscape, Toshio Shibata was commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art to photograph American vistas for its collection. Shibata's intimate...

Machyderm Inc. (exhibition).
February 1, 1998... Niagara Artists Company, St. Catharines Chris McNamara and Dermot Wilson, collectively known as Machyderm Inc., have been collaborating on videos, performances and installations for the last five years. Recently, they presented an...

Letter from Toronto.
February 1, 1998... February 1998 Last season's successes were quiet for the most part - even if their intentions might have been otherwise. Taking low-budget hype to its extreme, the Yellowhat collective used "teasers" such as store-front displays, posters...