20 Dec 2010

SPIKE ISSUE 26 OUT NOW!

We are pleased to announce our new issue of spike!

CONTENTS

ESSAY 
Confusingly entertaining TV that assaults good taste even while mirroring relevant aspects of today’s culture and fine art sensibilities – is reality TV up to the task of turning its lens on the art world? Adam E. Mendelsohn on the American reality show »Work of Art – The Next Great Artist«.

ARTIST’S FAVOURITES

By Paul Chan: Dani Leventhal, Bruce Davenport Jr., Olivia Shao, Petra Cortright, Ama Saru & Hsiao Chen

PORTRAITS

With his most recent film »Double Old Fashion«, Mathias Poledna delivers a contribution to the renaissance of Modernism in contemporary art. Maximilian Geymüller on the work of the Austrian artist.

Rosemarie Trockel is among one of the most internationally important artists working today. Joanna Fiduccia considers this particular model of artistic resistance, and how its uncompromising nature is currently achieving new relevance.



With a large scale retrospective in the Hamburg Deichtorhallen, Poul Gernes is finally acknowledged by the contemporary art world. Similar to Gustav Metzger, the Danish artist is proven to be an inordinately under-appreciated harbinger of contemporary art. An examination by Raimar Stange

GLOBAL ART WORLD

Lives and works. What effect does domestic space have on the artistic mindset? Adam Carr interviews Jason Dodge, Mungo Thomson, Jonathan Monk, Alek O, Mario Garcia Torres, Lawrence Weiner.

ARCHITECTURE

Does the whole human history stand between chaos and architecture? The emergence of new forms of wilderness could help building the XXI century utopia. By Michele D’Aurizio.

PRINTED MATTER

Berlin-Mitte furniture magnate, nightclub impresario and founder of a free academy Rafael Horzon wrote his memoir. A conversation with David Woodard.

ART SCENE MOSCOW

Moscow is like no other city in Europe. The »normalcy« of hypercapitalism has swept the city like a force of nature and dragged contemporary art from the margins of cultural industry to its center. By David Riff

CURATOR’S KEY

Cathérine Hug, curator at the Kunsthalle Wien, on Clyfford Still, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and early androids.

GALLERIES

About a year ago, Alex Zachary opened a gallery on the Upper East Side, a place few would expect to find a young gallerist, rubbing shoulders with old money and just a stone’s throw from the major museums. By Gianni Jetzer.

INSTITUTIONS
In a country like Belgium with no shortage of galleries the non-profit space Objectif Exhibitions is a bit of a rare gem. By Esperanza Rosales.

COLLECTIONS

How much branding art can actually take before it becomes advertising? Andreas Schlaegel on the Absolut Art Collection.

REVIEWS from New York, Paris, Riga, Vienna, Zurndorf, Bregenz, Geneva, Karlsruhe, Cologne, Berlin


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