Issues / #16 Winter 2008
Report: Back To You: Contemporary Performative Practice
Sarah Lowndes explores a current wave in contemporary art
Residency: Abraham Cruzvillegas
Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas spent six months at Cove Park this summer shaping an exhibition for Glasgow’s CCA. The result is Autoconstrucción
Emerging: Alex Gross
An element of failure is crucial to the development of this young artist’s strategy. John Calcutt gets to grips with his liberating style
Emerging: Phoebe Unwin
Rebecca Geldard discovers a savvy painter whose clever balance of good and bad taste is propelling her towards success
Feminism: A Question of Readership
In this issue we publish a selection of the many reader responses to the set of questions on feminism in Issue 15
Charles Avery: Mythologies
Charles Avery’s entire practice is built on the creation of a new world, an island place where cults and gulls and islanders all play their part. Anthony Spira explores its boundaries
Cyprien Gaillard: Recycling the Ruins
Cyprien Gaillard recently witnessed the destruction of high rise buildings in Glasgow: acute observations of this are the subject of his new work. Joanna Fiduccia talks to him about his practice and the death and decay of modernism in urban architecture
Lara Favaretto: The End of Motion
Alessandro Rabottini discovers a rich seam of functional and philosophical investigation in the moving and constantly shifting work of Italian artist Lara Favaretto
Gerhard Richter: Radical Senses
One of contemporary art’s most revered artists, a seminal and inspirational figure for many of his own and younger generations, Gerhard Richter makes paintings with an instinct that is as visually keen as it is intellectually demanding. Keith Hartley looks back at early days in Düsseldorf, in the light of his abstract period and more recent work
Michael Fullerton: Triangulation Theory
Michael Fullerton’s oeuvre adds up to much more than the paintings so frequently associated with it. John Calcutt discovers a playfulness of thought and fascination for chemistry, and theories in general, in this strikingly inquisitive artist’s work
Merlin James: Yes Yes Yes
Sherman Sam finds an uneasy longing, coupled with affirmative gesture, in the work of contemporary painter Merlin James
Commission: Ruth Ewan
A set of four postcards by Ruth Ewan have been commissioned for this issue of MAP
Back Page: Dawood/Deora
FROM: DAWOOD/DEORA SUBJECT: RE: MAP BACK PAGE DATE: THU OCT 23 18:24 TO: MAP
Remarks: 53rd Venice Biennale
Judith Winter and Graeme Domke, Dundee Contemporary Arts, discuss their selection for Scotland and Venice at the 53rd Venice Biennale.
Remarks: GSS
Beagles & Ramsay have undertaken the first production residency at Glasgow Sculpture Studios’ new home to develop their practice and create two monumental sculptures.
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Remarks: Katy Dove
Katy Dove discusses her two year residency at Platform, Glasgow, and how working with community groups has reflected on her practice.
Remarks: Moot Moves
Tom Godfrey, one of four artist/directors of Nottingham’s Moot organisation is excited about new prospects opened up by the occupation of new premises.
Remarks: Berlin’s New Space
Thomas Eller discusses the new Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin and its significance to the city
Matthieu Laurette
1 January–31 December, 2008 Blow de la Barra, London
Elmgreen & Dragset
12 October–15 November, 2008, Victoria Miro Gallery / Old Vic Theatre, London
Ryoji Ikeda, Nuit Blanche 4/5 October, Tour Montparnasse
11 October 2008–12 January 2009 Le Laboratoire, Paris
William Hunt
13 September–31 October, 2008, Witte de With Rotterdam, Rotterdam
upArt Contemporary Art Fair
2–5 October 2008, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
Conversations
27 September–16 November, 2008, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
Diango Hernández
6 September–25 October, 2008, Barbara Thumm, Berlin
David Bellingham
13 September–14 October, 2008, The Changing Room, Stirling
Sterling Ruby
9 October–15 November, 2008, Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, London
Alex Pollard
11 October–2 November, 2008, Whitechapel Project Space, London
Karla Black: Mistakes Made Away From Home
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