03 Feb 2009

Mousse Magazine | New Issue | No. 17

Mousse celebrates its expansion beyond Europe with an issue full of new interviews, essays, articles from correspondents in art capitals, artist's projects, explorations of innovative curatorial practices, and brand-new columns.

In issue 17...

_In a river of text messages and margaritas, Wade Guyton and T.J. Wilcox weave a conversation that leads us into the heart of the practice and occasion that generate a piece of work.
_Michele Robecchi tests the reticence of Peter Coffin, on the eve of two major exhibits.
_Francesca Pagliuca investigates the marriages of Vietnamese-Danish artist Danh Vo.
_Jennifer Allen turns an agonizing wait into a philosophical parable.
_Phillip Lai experiments with disorder to create a new order. Gigiotto del Vecchio examines the colliding binary forces and the fluid states at the center of the artist's work.
_Dieter Roelstraete delves into Thea Djordjadze's impenetrable realms of anti-form.
_Originality and appropriation, individual experience and the shared dimension, modernist rigour and experimentation: Marianna Vecellio questions Pedro Barateiro about his metamorphic approach.
_Susanne Winterling's work is centered on individuals and their biographies and personalities, recaptured through cross-fades. We learn more from a conversation with Stefania Palumbo.
_Luigi Fassi interviews William E. Jones, whose work mercilessly reveals the crucial intertwining of sexuality and social control.
_Caroline Corbetta tracks down Kim Jones to discover the person behind Mudman, the branch- and mire-clad figure who roamed the streets of Los Angeles in the '70s.
_Andrea Lissoni, immersed in the luminous phantasmagoria of a hammam, catches an echo of The Prisoner's Cinema by Melvin Moti.
_Omer Fast explores war and how the media presents conflicts. Barbara Casavecchia reflects on the artist's deconstruction techniques and his unusal take on 'redacting'.
_Aaron Schuster explains how Freek Wambacq's work is based on the artistic side effects of spontaneous images and situations.
_Vincenzo de Bellis moves dextrously through the puzzle sculptures of Rachel Harrison, pop hybrids that paste together Johnny Depp and Donald Judd.

NEW YORK: Cecilia Alemani takes a look at New York through Zoe Leonard's 400 photos of shops on the Lower East Side.

LOS ANGELES: Andrew Berardini meets up with Euan Macdonald, following the routes he traces of rolling tumbleweeds.

LONDON: With Jonathan Monk, Jamie Shovlin, Matthew Smith at Jeneau/Projects/, Alli Beddoes explores the experience of understanding a work of art and possible ways of misunderstanding it.

BERLIN: Christiane Rekade interviews Eva Berendes about her work, which revolutionizes the relationship between the visual and applied arts.


PARIS: Francesca di Nardo reveals the romantic side and emotional charge of the Benoît Maire's working method.

Plus...

_Chiara Leoni reveals the ingredients of the latest solo show by Francesco Vezzoli, in a new column, 'Part of the Process', which opens the doors of artists' studios just a few days before their openings.
_In a portrait of Bas Jan Ader, 'Lost and Found', Angela Vettese introduces an exploration of artists from the recent or less recent past, caught in the meshes of art history.
_Matthew Smith's works lose their capacity to signify, becoming anonymous, unrecognizable things. Alessandro Sarri probes their 'flesh', their struggle with the impossibility of revelation.
_Roberta Tenconi talks to Emanuele Becheri.
_Andrea Viliani hosts the European Kunsthalle in 'Curator's Corner'.
_Marco Tagliafierro follows the non-linear narrative of Scott Myles.
_Anna Daneri inspects the flooded studio of Pietro Roccasalva.
_With new spaces for contemporary art and a vast residency program, Brussels is attracting a steady stream of young artists and curators from around the world. For 'City Focus', Els Roelandt draws a map of this workshop in full swing.
_'Artist's Project': Julian Goethe, presented by Francesca Boenzi.

And much more...