C: International Contemporary Art articles from September 1999

C: International Contemporary Art archives from September 1999

Fresh heir.
September 1, 1999... Scottish-born Martin Creed is among those creating yet another ripple in the London scene -- Even Younger British Artists.* Along with artists showing in London this May, such as Douglas Gordon and Matthew Higgs, Creed delivers his work minus...

Terms of engagement: ... Vancouver's "War zones".
September 1, 1999... From mid-April through September -- sadly coinciding with the war and subsequent NATO occupation of Kosovo -- Canada's west-coast city was taken over by a multi-faceted exhibition on the subject of war. Karen Love, curator of North...

Letter from Toronto september 1999.
September 1, 1999... Perhaps it's my own wishful thinking, but it seems to me that many younger male artists are choosing to distance themselves from traditional masculine stereotypes of phallic power and mastery. This latest bit of opposite-sex speculation had...

Venitian views: overview.
September 1, 1999... If art has traditionally offered respite from a world in which the self may be easily lost upon a sea of competing demands -- an opportunity for restoration and reflection -- la Biennale di Venezia offers a fine example of the continued...

Venetian views: view 1.
September 1, 1999... Venice has always struck me as a stage set. On the occasion of this year's Biennale, those present were playing their respective roles as artists, collectors, critics, curators, gallerists and museum directors. As the atmosphere became...

Venetian views: view 2.
September 1, 1999... Only a curator with the experience and vivacity of Harald Szeemann could, in less than five months, organize a biennial like this one. There is a palpable energy that has not been present in recent editions of the Venice Biennale. It is a...

Venetian views: view 3.
September 1, 1999... For those with a belief in the importance and relevance of contemporary art, going to the Biennale di Venezia is a kind of pilgrimage. As with religious pilgrimages, we expect our belief may be challenged, and hope that it will be reaffirmed....

Arnaud Maggs (exhibiton).
September 1, 1999... The Power Plant, Toronto In viewing Arnaud Maggs's survey exhibition I was struck by the profoundly dry humour that underlies certain of his works and by my own nagging sense of disappointment -- caused not by any failure on the artist's...

Liz Magor (exhibition).
September 1, 1999... Equinox Gallery, Vancouver Beyond the window of the gallery storefront lies a world we can see, but not with the impunity gallery viewing offers. The gallery offers us security. Most of our expectations there are met. A painting on the...

Location, location, location: on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Robert Birch Gallery.
September 1, 1999... The idea that a successful gallery -- home to artists of some international reputation -- might be rooted in the neighbourly discourse of a specific geographic location may seem quaintly anachronistic at the beginning of the 21st century. But...

Kathleen Sellars (exhibition).
September 1, 1999... Gallery Connexion, Fredericton Kathleen Sellars, a Newfoundland artist living in Montreal, has long made surrealist-tinged sculpture using materials such as silicone, hair, wax, rubber and latex. In a manner similar to that of work by...

Nestor Kruger (exhibition).
September 1, 1999... Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto Ostensibly, the ideal place from which to view Nestor Kruger's trompe l'oeil wall-painting, Habit's Return (in the AGO's "Present Tense" project series) is from outside the space where it is presented. From...

Letter from New York september 1999.
September 1, 1999... What is the difference between art and illustration? I have recently been seeing exhibitions that beg the question, and since the answer is so elusive for me, I thought I could go through some preliminary points of difference in hopes that the...

Studio visit: Carol Jackson, Chicago.
September 1, 1999... Strewn across Carol Jackson's studio floor were several sheets of leather, tattooed with emblems and words. Roughly poster-size, these strangely dilapidated forms are the latest productions of this Chicago-based artist. Well-known locally for...

Charlottetown calling september 1999.
September 1, 1999... Hi! I'm on my cell phone on the Confederation Bridge, halfway between New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. I'm in Sue Gibson Garvey's van (she's the curator at the Dalhousie Art Gallery in Halifax). Cliff Eyland is here, the Winnipeg artist...