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TOP FIVE: WHAT TO SEE THIS MONTH
BY JESSICA MORGAN
Curator of Contemporary Art at Tate Modern, London
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SANJA IVEKOVIC URS FISCHER
Ivekovic is an artist from Croatia who made seminal I’ve followed Fischer’s
work in the 1970s – and continues to make seminal work for some time, and he
work! – but is much overlooked and is finally always does something quite
getting the appreciation she deserves. Images culled unexpected – whether starkly
from the media are mimicked by the artist to make minimal or lushly poetic
evident the stereotypes of gendered presentation, – when given a new space
but in an utterly insightful yet visually to work with. This will be
brilliant manner. This is a touring show and a 3 the inaugural show at Sadie
full retrospective with a much-needed catalogue to JENNIFER Coles’s new space, and I
accompany it – something that will hopefully help to expect great things.
place her work on an equal standing with her better- ALLORA & He works both with figurative
known peers from the West, such as Martha Rosler and and representational form
Cindy Sherman. GUILLERMO in a way that continues a
Dadaist/Fischli/Weiss/Swiss
SANJA IVEKOVIC: GENERAL ALERT, WORKS 1974– CALZADILLA madcap trajectory that I find
2007, 31 MAY – 22 JULY, FUNDACIO ANTONI utterly compelling, and a
TAPIES, BARCELONA, WWW.FUNDACIOTAPIES.ORG Allora & Calzadilla have been not-unrelated novel use of
developing over various venues materials that are often very
this sculpture that resembles traditional, but which he
a fairly darkly dramatic rocky somehow wholly transforms.
edifice or a bunker. The
piece is activated at certain URS FISCHER, JUNE–JULY SADIE COLES HQ, LONDON
times by musicians playing WWW.SADIECOLES.COM
a concatenation of military
songs, or songs related to
military anthems. It’s really
about a state of war, or an
alarm. It’s a brilliant piece,
but also very appropriate for 5
the moment. TINO SEHGAL
JENNIFER ALLORA &
GUILLERMO CALZADILLA Coming from a background in
2 JUNE – 12 AUGUST choreography and political
KUNSTHALLE ZURICH economy, both of which play
WWW.KUNSTHALLEZURICH.CH a fundamental role in his
work, Sehgal does not produce
tangible objects and is not
2 interested in leaving any top: Allora & Calzadilla, Clamor, 2006 (installation view, the Moore Space, form of material trace. He
GEOFFREY FARMER Miami), mixed media, dimensions variable. effectively designs situations Photo: Dawn Blackman. © the artists that take the form of fleeting
left: Geoffrey Farmer, A Pale Fire gestures based on movement
A Vancouver-based artist, Farmer’s making new work Freedom Machine, 2005 (installation view,
for the Drawing Room that will be drawing-based, but the Power Plant, Toronto). Courtesy and the spoken word, with Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver one or several people acting
his work is essentially a sculptural installation out a set of instructions
practice with a process-orientated aspect. Usually over the duration of an
the process itself in some way references a history exhibition. This will be a
of art, usually a recent history of conceptual and major exhibition and no doubt
performance-based work. So I’m expecting that this a major challenge for both
won’t disappoint: it’ll be another example of the the institution and visitors
way in which he melds together a variety of sources trying to absorb this entirely
– literary, artistic, socio-political and personal novel approach to artmaking.
– and different forms of artmaking itself.
TINO SEHGAL, 1 JUNE –
GEOFFREY FARMER: THE LAST TWO MILLION YEARS 26 AUGUST, MMK FRANKFURT
24 MAY – 1 JULY, THE DRAWING ROOM, LONDON WWW.MMK-FRANKFURT.DE
WWW.DRAWINGROOM.ORG.UK
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