C: International Contemporary Art articles from September 1998

C: International Contemporary Art archives from September 1998

Jyrki Parantainen: FIRE (exhibition).
September 1, 1998... One of the bonuses of this June's attendance at the opening of Kiasma - Finland's new and impressive contemporary art museum (see C #58) - was the opportunity it afforded to find and visit a number of Helsinki's impressive artists, both in and...

Art Forum Berlin.
September 1, 1998... In its third incarnation, this up-and-coming art fair is a product of the shifting European landscape and is very much a part of Berlin's post-wall repositioning. As an alternative to the long-standing Cologne fair, Art Forum lays claim to a...

Berlin Biennale (exhibition).
September 1, 1998... Berlin introduces its first biennale of contemporary art this September. Conceived by Klaus Biesenbach, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Nancy Spector, the exhibition, "Berlin Berlin," features work by over sixty artists who have lived, produced or had...

Biennale of Sydney (exhibition).
September 1, 1998... The eleventh incarnation of Sydney's Biennale will run under the banner of the "everyday" and the artistic direction of Jonathan Watkins, former director of London's Serpentine Gallery. Over one hundred artists from over thirty countries...

Bienal de Sao Paulo (exhibition).
September 1, 1998... Under the high-concept curatorial guidance of chief curator Paulo Herkenhoff and adjunct curator Adriano Pedrosa, this fourteenth incarnation of Sao Paulo's biennale is organized in relation to Lyotard's idea of epaisseur [density] and is...

San Francisco International Art Exposition (exhibition).
September 1, 1998... Having earned their fair share of respect in the international art world for rescuscitating Chicago as the site of North America's most prestigious art fair, Thomas Blackman & Associates are heading west to launch their first San Francisco...

Web culture.
September 1, 1998... C's website is updated irregularly. Postings of new material are currently scheduled for September and October. Check out our web-reviews and features for ideas, artists and coverage that supplement printed editions of C. To visit our site,...

"If this is art, then I really like it!" ... on Tracy Moffat's Heaven.
September 1, 1998... Toronto-based painter David Morrow viewed Tracey Moffat's Heaven for the first time at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in Sydney last winter. During that viewing - despite the tape's seriously crafted construction and its dead-on address of many...

Getting our hands dirty ... Banff Centre residency titled "Women & Paint".
September 1, 1998... In recent decades modernist painting with its claims to mastery and transcendence suffered a one-two punch from which it has yet to fully recover: postmodern critics - sickened of flatness, formalism and the fetishized object of painting -...

Conceptual evidence: ... Manifest (exhibition).
September 1, 1998... The works of Thierry Delva, Dennis Gill and John Greer are complex and challenging meditations on how an object functions. These sculptures are, first and fore-most, things in the room with the viewer. They occupy space, and the air in the St....

Toy box junkies.
September 1, 1998... Toys have had a conspicuous presence in art since the mid-1980s when a number of American artists - Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Laurie Simmons, Paul McCarthy - began using them in their work. Toys evoke innocence, naivety and idealism, making them...

Practice and process: Armory Center for the Arts.
September 1, 1998... This exhibition represents a risky and ambitious undertaking. Curators Jay Belloli and Jeff Nathanson spent two years visiting artists' studios, searching out the most recent trends in California abstract painting. Their findings led them to...

Letter from Vancouver (exhibitions).
September 1, 1998... August 1998 Based on my visit there this summer, I'd say Vancouver is on steady simmer after a number of spring exhibitions featuring "hot" young artists. Had I come earlier, I could have seen "6: New Vancouver Modern," an exhibition...

Huang Yong Ping & Xu Bing (exhibition).
September 1, 1998... Art Beatus, Vancouver "Jiangnan," a multi-exhibition project that took place in Vancouver this spring presented the work of a number of modern and contemporary artists from China. One of the most impressive exhibitions during the project...

Letter from Calgary (exhibitions).
September 1, 1998... August 1998 September is always a busy time for Calgary's art scene, but this year the excitement is doubled with the concurrence of the annual Artweek festival and the Alberta Biennial. Artweek (Sept. 18-27) hosts dozens of shows in...

Letter from Chicago (exhibitions).
September 1, 1998... August 1998 Photography and sculpture dominated the Chicago scene in early summer, providing contrasting and sometimes kindred visions of what constitutes "the real" in contemporary art. The over-whelming presence of photo-based work at...

1998: New Artists in Chicago (exhibitions).
September 1, 1998... The Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago "1998: New Artists in Chicago" was the museum exhibition of rigorous contemporary art for which the Chicago community has long been clamouring. For the last ten years, the Terra has championed the...

Robert Wiens (exhibition).
September 1, 1998... Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto Robert Wiens's six three-metre-high watercolours of wizened pine trunks set Susan Hobbs's long, thin gallery up as a kind of back-alley Valhalla, a nave of virtual pillars reaching to the whitewashed ceiling's...

Letter from Toronto (exhibitions).
September 1, 1998... August 1998 While I am of course fond of museums, I have been increasingly interested in non-gallery art interventions that disrupt daily routine and insert art into other, not yet legitimized spaces. Early in the summer season, two...

Shari Hatt (exhibition).
September 1, 1998... Oboro, Montreal One of the most important, thought-provoking exhibitions in Montreal recently was Shari Hatt's, "Breast Wishes," a multi-media investigation into society's emotional and cultural investments in female breasts. However, it...

Letter from Montreal (exhibitions).
September 1, 1998... August 1998 Every summer, Montreal, like other major cities, seems given over to big shows. With Giacometti at the Montreal Musee des beaux-arts (to Oct. 18) and Rodin at the Musee du Quebec (to Sept. 6), name recognition alone could...

Letter from Halifax (exhibitions).
September 1, 1998... August 1998 In summer, Canadians head into the landscape and Atlantic galleries have got their heads into it this summer as well - through both exhibitions focused on representations of the land and direct artists' interventions. The Owens...

Susie Major (exhibition).
September 1, 1998... Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax "The Song of Songs," the love poem found in the Old Testament, provides the impetus for one of the works in Susie Major's recent exhibition, "Girls Skipping" - and a key to the exhibition as a whole. The...

Letter from New York (exhibitions).
September 1, 1998... August 1998 By July, most galleries are closed for the summer, and what remains, art-wise, are memories of June and the anticipation of the fall season. The most memorable of the spring shows include David Scher's deliberately...

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov.
September 1, 1998... The Roundhouse, London Ilya and Emilia Kabakov's "The Palace of Projects" could only have been hatched in Russia. For one, the palace's wooden structure resembles Tatlin's proto-constructivist Monument to the Third International, whose...

Smart & sexy (good writing, art and ideas).
September 1, 1998... Is it just me, or have we outdone ourselves? There is a lot of good writing, art and ideas in this issue and, it seems, something for everyone, both media-wise (painting, sculpture, video, photography, lip sync, new media) and otherwise...