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cmagazine
ISSUE98/FALL 2008

THE ART SYSTEM

VIEWS
  • Fabrique en Canada Heyd Fontenot and Patrick DeCoste at Pouch Cove Gallery, Newfoundland by Chris Kraus
  • Montreal's DHCArt and the Changing Climate of Arts Patronage in Canada by Chris Lloyd

    • FEATURES
  • Objects on stage (Notes from pre- and post-) In this context 'object' should be understood in relation to the concept of 'fractionality';i.e., the contemporary condition under which most of our experiences are neither real nor imaginary by Victor Tupitsyn
  • Art and Politics: On the critic Hal Foster Do the ideas of the avant-garde still make sense in a multi-polar artworld? by Lydia Perovic
  • The Elephant in the Room: A Brief Excursus on Avant-Garde and Community Art Marc James Leger makes a case for avant-gardism as the repressed underside of service-oriented community art project
  • Props to the Fairy People Jon Davies on the autarkie art practice of Fastwurms>
  • Cat Thinks People Not Living Life to the Full: Jacob Wren on the work of Finnish artist Nina Lassila

    • ARTIST CENTERFOLD
    Bouquet, 2006 by Diane Borsato

    REVIEWS
  • Brice Marden, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin by Sholem Krishtalka
  • Pablo Bronstein, Paternoster Square, Herald St., London, by Jesse McKee
  • The 2008 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York, by Leah Modigliani
  • Oscar Munoz, Disappearing Image, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art in association with YYZ Artists/ outlet, by Tamara Toledo
  • Rightfully Yours, Wendy Coburn, Steven Cohen, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, Alicia Framis, Alison S.M. Kobayashi, Mingering Mike, Mattias Olofsson, The Yes Men, Camille Turner, Sislej Xhafa, Your private viewing of Borat, Ali G, and Bruno, Curated by Tejpal Singh Ajji, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto by Jon Davies
  • Exponential Futures, Tim Lee, Alex Morrison, Isabelle Pauwels, Kevin Schmidt, Mark Soo, Corin Sworn, Althea Thauberger, Elizabeth Zvonar, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2008 by Eli Bornowsky
  • Reenactments, DHC/Art, Montreal, by Nicholas Brown
  • Valerie Blass, Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Jean-Michel Ross, translated from the French by Mona Filip

    • BIG PICTURE
    Diane Borsato, Bouquet #2, 2007, Stolen flowers, vase, water/C-print (size variable)


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