C: International Contemporary Art articles from May 1998

C: International Contemporary Art archives from May 1998

What to C: opening: a guide to the season's exhibitions.
May 1, 1998... Kiasma Joining Berlin (Hamburger Banhof) and Bilbao (Guggenheim) - both in C #55 - Helsinki now weighs in with Kiasma - one of a growing list of contemporary art museums to open in recent years (with more to come, including Calgary's...

Letting go: the fall in contemporary art.
May 1, 1998... The fall is a displacement of the ordinary, a moment of peril in which the body is given over to gravity. Both the imagined and enacted state of the fall affirm the physicality of existence, while invoking cultural realities and spiritual...

Trash as a cultural system: (Robert) Rauschenberg, (Andy) Warhol, (Jack) Smith and shifting museum practices.
May 1, 1998... The lives of Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and Jack Smith are lessons, for good or ill, in career management. Their popular successes (or lack thereof, in Smith's case) have even determined the ways in which their careers, rather than just...

Bonus: a generation next of Vancouver photographers.
May 1, 1998... Senior Vancouver artist and photographer Roy Arden recently adopted the role of curator-gathering works by a new generation of local photographers under the banner "Bonus" for Vancouver's Contemporary Art Gallery. The exhibition, recently...

See-through cities (exhibition).
May 1, 1998... Lisa Gabrielle Mark looks into a surprise hit of Toronto's winter season Much theorizing has been done about the chicken-and-egg relationship between architecture and society, the degree to which one shapes and determines the other. Does a...

Letter from New York.
May 1, 1998... May 1998 Even when an artist photographs her or himself, the resulting image is as though the object of another's view. Photography, film and video all serve to make objective statements about the world outside the self, only obliquely and...

Luis Mallo (exhibition).
May 1, 1998... Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York City In his homage to Walker Evans, Luis Mallo candidly photographs not the faces but the hands of passengers on the New York City subway. There are approximately fifty black-and-white images, each similar in...

Letter from Halifax.
May 1, 1998... May 1998 If I haven't written for a while, it's not for lack of news but because things have been so breathlessly busy. We're having our own Cultural Revolution in Halifax. The Long March toward a provincial arts council finally bore fruit...

Jaclyn Shoub (exhibition).
May 1, 1998... Gallery Connexion, Fredericton Photography has had a unique relationship with our sense of the real ever since Daguerre took his first picture in 1838. In that photograph, Paris was peopled only by one man, getting his boots polished. The...

KIT Collective (exhibition).
May 1, 1998... galerie Sequence, Chicoutimi When Arcade Galaxie closed, gallery Sequence purchased the building from the City of Chicoutimi for one dollar. In December they opened with the pertinent, thought-provoking exhibition, "Re*Action Hero," by KIT...

Letter from Montreal.
May 1, 1998... May 1998 Gary Hill's exhibition at the Musee d'art contemporain (until Apr 26) has been an especially spectacular event here in Montreal. Featuring a selection of videos and six video installations, the exhibition offers a critical...

Letter from Toronto.
May 1, 1998... May 1998 The arts community is buzzing about the recent closure of the S.L. Simpson Gallery, leaving many of the city's finest artists without representation. A highly successful commercial gallery and Toronto's mainline for hot...

John Armstrong (exhibition).
May 1, 1998... Cold City Gallery, Toronto The floor of the smaller gallery at Cold City was dense with undulating, slightly sinister looking roses, eerie at twice lifesize and seeming as if a force field was just restraining them from crawling out of the...

Susan Shantz (exhibition).
May 1, 1998... Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge The upper chamber of the Southern Alberta Art Gallery is not a neutral, white cube with overhead lighting. Both its architecture (peaked roof and arched windows, reminiscent of a chapel) and its...

Letter from Calgary.
May 1, 1998... May 1998 Edmonton has not been noted for its feminist arts community, but that may be changing. The Edmonton Art Gallery and its newly appointed senior curator, Catherine Crowston, brought renowned feminist art historian Griselda Pollock...

Letter from Chicago.
May 1, 1998... May 1998 This winter, Chicago lost two of its anchors: on Friday, February 13, Randolph Street Gallery closed its doors after nineteen years of championing alternative art. Lack of financial and human resources were cited. Likewise,...

Matthew Girson et al (exhibition).
May 1, 1998... 7562LR, Chicago Despite the frequency of complaints from their colleagues - about galleries closing, about getting work shown, about seeing interesting art - some energetic, enterprising artists have found alternatives: exhibiting in bars...

Marc Quinn (exhibition).
May 1, 1998... South London Gallery, London In 1993, Marc Quinn exhibited Self - a cast of his head made with nine pints of his own frozen blood. The Financial Times labelled it a "macabre side-show," asking cynically, "is it anything more?" Five years...

Letter from London.
May 1, 1998... May 1998 London's galleries are big and a trip through an exhibition can give one a serious case of motion sickness and travel fatigue. Recently, after gorging on 150 of Bonnard's riotously coloured paintings at the Tate I felt like I'd...