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top five: what to see this Month
By MassiMiliano Gioni
Curator of Contemporary art at the new Museum, new york, and co-founder of the wrong Gallery
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RiChaRd Matthew Johanna BillinG
pRinCe Monahan
ever since seeing Johanna Billing’s video Magical
World (2005), i haven’t stopped singing the song
as the United states enters with his papier-mâché monsters,
by sidney Barnes, which is used on the soundtrack.
its highest phase of cultural distorted self-portraits and
this first museum show will lead viewers through
imperialism, with fierce fragmented statues, Matthew
the mental landscapes and the suspended atmospheres
fights in iraq and a sense Monahan has been exploring
of Billing’s videos. strangely still and incredibly
of grandiose decadence in both the dark corners of his
hypnotic, Billing’s videos sometimes remind me of
its capital, how scarily mind and the blurry outlines
the work of viktor alimpiev, a great Russian artist
appropriate to see america of his body. in the last
whose work you can see at p.s.1 until the end of
reflected in the work of couple of years Monahan has
september.
Richard prince, in his macho been producing truly arresting
Marlboro Man, middle-class works, and the show at MoCa Johanna BillinG, 8 septeMBeR – 31 deCeMBeR,
jokes, car hoods and celebrity promises further to reveal the
MUseUM füR GeGenwaRtsKUnst, Basel
autographs. in the background work of one of america’s most
www.KUnstMUseUMBasel.Ch
you can almost hear the interesting young sculptors.
squeaking drunk laughter of while in la check out Cosima
biker chicks, girls gone wild von Bonin too, also at
and other babes in wonderland MoCa, and the francis alÿs
– oh, america the beautiful. retrospective at the hammer.
speaking of sex and desire,
check out the Bodypoliticx
Matthew Monahan, Until 29
exhibition at witte de with,
oCtoBeR, MoCa foCUs, los
anGeles, www.MoCa-la.oRG
Rotterdam, which sketches a
short history of sexuality and
porn in contemporary art. i’m
pretty sure prince himself
would love it.
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richard Prince: SPiriTual
aMerica, 28 septeMBeR
lyon Biennial
– 9 JanUaRy, GUGGenheiM
Johanna Billing, Magical World, 2005, dvd, 6 min 12 sec, loop
MUseUM, new yoRK
it’s that time of the year
www.GUGGenheiM.oRG
again, with three biennials
coming up: lyon, istanbul,
plus athens joining the club.
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lyon inaugurates its ninth
instalment with a collective
UGo Rondinone
game in which artists and
curators are invited to
artist-curated shows have become more and more
nominate the artists who are
common, as audiences and institutions are getting
shaping the first decade
a little bored with curators. this Ugo Rondinone
of the twenty-first century.
extravaganza creates unexpected connections and
Ranging from the great thomas
discovers elective affinities among a very diverse
Bayrle to much younger
group of artists. from the swiss spiritualist
artists, the show attempts to
emma Kunz to west Coast artist Bruce Conner,
outline something of a new
from cult figures such as Jean-frédéric schnyder
generational sensibility.
and Joe Brainard all the way to Ronald Bladen and
nancy Grossman, The Third Mind is some kind of
lyon Biennial
psychotic experiment inspired by the cut-ups
17 septeMBeR – 6 JanUaRy
www.Biennale-de-lyon.oRG
of william Burroughs and Brion Gysin. obscure
and introverted, it’s a kind of secret society,
rather than a traditional exhibition.
The Third Mind, 27 septeMBeR – 30 deCeMBeR,
palais de toKyo, paRis,
www.palaisdetoKyo.CoM
Richard prince, untitled (fashion), 1982–84,
ektacolor photograph, unique, 102 x 69 cm.
© the artist
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