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Comment on Seb Patane: The Hidden Alchemist by FMP43-Contextual Research « comfortiscoma

FMP43-Contextual Research « comfortiscoma — Sat, 12 May 2012 19:43:30 +0000

[...] Seb Patane http://selfselector.co.uk/2010/03/16/seb-patane-the-hidden-alchemist/ [...]

Comment on Antoni Muntadas, ‘Entre/Between’ by michael hampton

michael hampton — Fri, 04 May 2012 11:42:56 +0000

Seeing is not believing.

Comment on “Bonnie” de Saint Phalle & “Clyde” Tinguely by OUTTAKES – David D’Arcy on film – Exhuming Reputations at FIFA 2012 – ARTINFO.com « Revolutions of the Night

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:29:11 +0000

[...] days is something of a hula hoop, even eclipsed in the zeigeist by his wife and co-conspirator, Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2012) [...]

Comment on Notes on the work of David Ferrando Giraut by David Ferrando Giraut – Loss « Chantal Powell – Artists Blog

David Ferrando Giraut – Loss « Chantal Powell – Artists Blog — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 20:57:15 +0000

[...] this excellent essay on David Ferraando Giraut by Lorena Muñoz-Alonso Share this:FacebookTwitterMoreEmailLinkedInRedditDiggStumbleUponPrintLike [...]

Comment on History, solitude and hermeneutics in contemporary art criticism by michael hampton

michael hampton — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:28:35 +0000

Lippard as ever furnishes us with a quote. Yes criticism is auto-didactic, but for me the problems are two fold, ie not only the rise of the curator, and indeed pantomime horse artist/curator, but the tendency now for official party lines about reading the work to be promulgated by artists as controllers, marketing people too, and secondly the stereotyping that the whole circus of career driven activity brings with it, ie you are a critic, and not a dustbin man etc. I prefer to just think of the writing rather than the stupid denomination process, whereby others perceive you. Then it is a question of modes of writing, that may include critically inflected writing, and even writing that uncovers issues buried in artists’ works that they are in denial about. This is where it starts to get interesting.

Comment on Ryan Gander or the pleasurable frustration by An interview with Ryan Gander « SelfSelector

An interview with Ryan Gander « SelfSelector — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:17:16 +0000

[...] the end of the summer of 2011 Ryan Gander presented ‘Locked Room Scenario’ (you can read my review here), a grand scale mise-en-scène that [...]

Comment on Truth Study? Interview with Wolfgang Tillmans by We Find Wildness

We Find Wildness — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:53:57 +0000

[...] I had worked with found newspapers before, in the ‘Soldiers’ series (1999). I have to confess I am a bit of a newspaper junkie and have collected them since childhood. I often think that a day’s newspaper contains the essence of the whole world. But I guess that around 2002–2004, the years post 9/11, a clearer picture of the world we live in emerged – all the insanity that surrounded us – after what had seemed like the less politically charged 1990s. I was enraged and concerned and spending a lot of time reading media and thinking about all these different claims to the truth, ‘the big truth’ which was the ultimate justification behind all that violence and those wars. I realised that all the problems that the world faces right now arise from men claiming to possess absolute truths. – WOLFGANG TILLMANS for SelfSelector [...]

Comment on Notes for an idealistic visit to the Frieze Art Fair by ¡A vueltas con la maldita pintura! | nosotros

¡A vueltas con la maldita pintura! | nosotros — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:24:34 +0000

[...] a mano en el intercambio mercantil. Claro ejemplo de esta tendencia fue la recientemente celebrada edición de Frieze 2011, con un clarísimo triunfo del collage, el dibujo y la [...]

Comment on Time travels and the (de)construction of contemporary myths by Time travels and the (de)construction of contemporary myths | Translados

Time travels and the (de)construction of contemporary myths | Translados — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:28:52 +0000

[...] by Lorena Muñoz-Alonso, first published at selfselector. [...]

Comment on Weekend & La Chinoise: Why these two Godard’s 1967 masterpieces are still relevant today by Time travels and the (de)construction of contemporary myths « SelfSelector

Time travels and the (de)construction of contemporary myths « SelfSelector — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:08:54 +0000

[...] speak about El Enemigo (2010), by WeareQQ. El Enemigo is a reworking of that Godardian myth called La Chinoise (1967). The young protagonists’ endearing and pedagogic verbal diarrhoea, the film credits, the [...]