C: International Contemporary Art articles from September 2006

C: International Contemporary Art archives from September 2006

The Young Canadians.
September 22, 2006... The idea of doing a Young Canadians issue of C came up as a way to showcase a number of artists whose work we like. The artists featured are young in the sense that all Canadians are young and in the sense that the idea of Canada itself evokes...

Oil for art's sake: Andrei Molodkin cuts into the veins of Western oil dependency.(Interview)
September 22, 2006... In May 2006 I travelled to Moscow to attend my book presentation at the local art fair, Art Moskva. The latter turned out to be more modest in size than FIAC or Art Cologne, but nearly as bad in terms of quality. And yet there were some...

Greetings from LA: Chris Kraus reports on some suspicious activity in the new USA.(Views )(George Porcari)
September 22, 2006... The United States is a prison. It's easy enough to forget this when you're at a party for George Porcari's stunning exhibit of photographs, I See Through You, at Chinatown's Mandarin Gallery. The show was up here during June and July....

Vancouver's collecting collective.(Verena Kaminiarz, Mark Dudiak, Andrew Kent, Arabella Campbell, Scott Marshall and Cedric Bomford )(Discussion)
September 22, 2006... I spoke with Mark Dudiak, Andrew Kent, Arabella Campbell, Scott Marshall and Cedric Bomford on June 28 in Vancouver. Verena Kaminiarz joined in from Australia via Internet phone. What follows is an abbreviated version of our conversation. ...

Althea Thauberger: experimentalism is dead. Long live the Internet.
September 22, 2006... ALTHEA THAUBERGER'S WORK is like the Internet, and the Internet is the greatest human achievement since the discovery of fire. It's better than the printing press. It's better than the telephone. It's way, way better than TV. Neither the...

Law and ordering: on evaluating recent Canadian neoconceptualism.(Michael Euyung Oh)(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... MICHAEL EUYUNG OH is a ranker of the offensive and the mundane. In 200 Sex Offenders (2000-2001) he rated a series of photos of sex offenders (100 males and 100 females) by the visual appeal of their faces. Likewise, in 100 First Degree...

Kristan Horton: an image of sculpture.(contemporary artists)
September 22, 2006... THE JOY OF ARTMAKING At our first meeting in his studio, Kristan Horton showed me his recent self-produced artist's book, Oracle, an product of his project, also titled Oracle, which translates audio books into printed books. Although it...

Close to icons: Monika Szewczyk on Steven Shearer's growing devotion to painting.
September 22, 2006... I. IMAGES HAVE LIVES An underlying logic of Steven Shearer's artistic project is the idea that, as bodies, viewers need to be addressed by other bodies or physical phenomena. He starts with information existing without a physical form,...

Taking art for a ride: propulsion and entropy in the work of Michel de Broin.(Shared Propulsion Car, Keep on Smoking )(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... RESISTANCE has been the driving metaphor and conceptual core of Michel de Broin's artistic work since the mid-90s. A singular feature of the Quebecois artist's approach to this is the creation of physical systems that simultaneously generate a...

Milutin Gubash: Near and Far.(painting on peoples and places )
September 22, 2006... Milutin Gubash: Near and Far Stride Gallery, Calgary, Alberta The newspaper runs an item about a man accused of murdering his father in Calgary's Weaselhead Park. The story catches the eye of Milutin Gubash, photographer and video artist....

Territory.(art exhibition)
September 22, 2006... Territory Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Roy Arden, The Atlas Group/ Walid Raad, Michael Barnholden, Yael Bartana, Cao Fei, Germaine Koh, Gonzalo Lebrija, Jayce Salloum, Seripop, Ron Terada, Annabel Vaughn and Neil Wedman; Curated by...

Ninth Havana Biennial.
September 22, 2006... Ninth Havana Biennial Havana, Cuba The ninth Havana Biennial is made up of a dynamic yet chaotic mix of official and unofficial events. In a dense landscape where the histories of colonialism and modernism coexist in an uneasy decay, the...

Sadegh Tirafkan: Manhood.(personal narrative photography exhibited )
September 22, 2006... Sadegh Tirafkan: Manhood A Space Gallery, Toronto This is a show of extremes. This is a show of games. This is a show that is not unlike a soap opera with helpings of betrayal, love, lust and adultery. Watch your step. Watch your back. ...

Canada: A Group Show From New York.
September 22, 2006... Canada: A Group Show From New York David Askevold, Brian Belott, Sarah Braman, Elena Pankova, Anke Weyer, Wallace Whitney; Counter Gallery, London, England Canada provided a sense of the homemade, in that all the works were painterly,...

Dan Hays: Colorado Impressions.
September 22, 2006... Dan Hays: Colorado Impressions Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England When Dan Hays said, "I'm a robot trying to learn how to paint," I felt I knew what he meant. He didn't say, "I am a painter," or "I am an artist who paints." It is...

Daniel Olson: Beside Myself.
September 22, 2006... Daniel Olson: Beside Myself Optica, Montreal, Quebec Daniel Olson has made a career out of clever play. By tampering with sources from personal history, popular culture, the arts and daily life, Olson reflects on his engagement with the...

Nico Ihlein: Unclear Situations in Halfsecured Rooms.(sculptures)
September 22, 2006... Nico Ihlein: Unclear Situations in Halfsecured Rooms Nice & Fit, Berlin A dream featuring broken ceramic tiles is the basis for the anti-heroic, somewhat grotesque series of salt-dough sculptures central to the installation Broken Myths...