Markus Hansen, Maud Sulter, Patrick Caulfield & Tim Head reviews in Kanal Europe magazine 1992 - 1993

GALLERIES LISTED:

Anderson O’Day / Annely Juda Fine Art / Anthony d’Offay Gallery / Benjamin Rhodes Gallery / Bernard Jacobson Gallery / Curwen Gallery / England 7 co / Flowers East / Francis Graham- Dixon / Gimpel Fils / Hamiltons / Jill George Gallery

Building on the success of The Snow Show in Lapland 2004 the curator Lance Fung redefined his idea to suit the location of Sestriere, high in the Italian Alps. Context counts in this project. The Lapland event was sited near two towns designed by Alvo Aalto. Land art somehow always includes the ’act of arriving’ as part of the process.

Richard Wilson

Turning the place Over & other projects

The spectacle of live performance buildings

The purple haze of sixties attitudes, drifting across London right now, has settled on The Hayward Gallery & floated downstream to alight on Kensington Gardens. Perhaps it is overly simplistic to say the Wide Open School is a new take on sixties self discovery, outside convention, but it encompasses the same free spirit.

This is Spencer Finch’s second exhibition at Lisson & he has made the works specifically for the gallery, most particularly ‘a discrete architectural space’ and for the time the show is on, a month. All the works derive from a two-month period when the artist was alone in his Brooklyn studio, deciding to get back to basics and ‘to make something out of nothing’.

FAD OFFICE is a four day event curated by Kay Roberts and Chantelle Purcelle, which presents performances and talks from established artists and curators alongside emerging artists; Terry Smith, Silvia Ziranek, Michael Petry, Kay Roberts, Douglas Park, Zeitgeist Arts Projects, Will Corwin, Jack Catling, Vanessa Mitter, Arcadia Missa, Ladies of the Press, Vitrine Gallery, Francesca Goodwin from Fabilist, Victory Press, Phil Nutley, Ilona Szalay and Jennifer Cluskey.

1830, when Victor Hugo was writing his novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, pessimism about the influence of mass-produced books on contemporary culture led him to include a chapter entitled ‘This will kill that’:

The expressive multi-cultural arts guide

Free magazine sept / oct 2000 prelaunch issue 00