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Front Desk/back Office
"Subversive" may be the best description for this little volume pointing out that commercial art galleries are schizophrenic; they explicitly present things with an intellectual and aesthetic value, while on the other hand the experience most definitely has a price tag attached. Rob Hamelijnck presents a selection of photographs he took - mostly without permission - of the pristine front desks and messy back rooms of galleries around the world, and reveals the hidden side of the art machine. Essays by French architect Thibaut de Ruyter and Dutch sociologist Olav Velthuis address provocative questions such as, "Why do all galleries have the same mid-century chairs?" and "Why doesn't the high-heeled young woman at the door ever say hello?" The book is the second of the limited editions produced in the Fucking Good Art series.
Youcef Korichi
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STADT/BILD
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The Passenger: Paris
The best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from and about Paris—in the “rich and engrossing” series for literary travelers (Times Literary Supplement). Paris’s postcard image has suffered multiple blows in recent years: the November 2015 terrorist attacks, the demonstrations of the yellow vests, the riots in the suburbs, Notre-Dame in flames, record heatwaves and the coronavirus. Meanwhile, soaring living costs are forcing many Parisians to leave the city. Yet these are not just a series of unfortunate events. They are phenomena—from increasing population density to climate change, from immigration to the repercussions of globalization and geopolitics—that all metropol...
Music in the corner
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The Passenger: Berlin
The best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from and about Berlin—in the series that’s “like a literary vacation” (Publishers Weekly). In 1990s Berlin, the scars of a century of war were still visible everywhere: coal stoves, crumbling buildings, desolate minimarts, not a working buzzer or elevator. To visit the city then was a hallucinatory experience, a simultaneous journey into the past and into the future. The abandoned ruins, the hidden gems found at the flea market, the illegal basement raves are a thing of the past. The era of Berlin as a site of urban archeology is over. Almost all the damaged buildings have been repaired, squatters have been removed, the shops sell...
Werther effect
Hyperrockalisme : la reproduction picturale exacte de vues d'exposition, où l'objet principal de l'image sera représenté grandeur nature. Inventé par Elodie Lesourd, le terme d'hyperrockalisme rend compte d'une partie centrale de son travail. L'artiste peint des vues d'exposition, des installations éphémères mettant en scène des objets, des codes ou des esthétiques de la culture rock. Une fois l'image trouvée, elle se lance dans un patient travail de peinture au plus proche de l'original. Les objets fétiches de la culture rock - ampli Marshall noir, Les Paul des années 50, prise jack 3,5 chromée - deviennent les héros grandeur nature de ses peintures sur bois. Par ce jeu d'appropriation, l'artiste fabrique, au fil de ses expositions, une autre histoire de l'art et une véritable anthologie du rock. Trois essais de Thibaut de Ruyters, Marco Costantini et Hunter Hunt-Hendrix - tous trois spécialistes du rock - commentent et mettent en perspective la démarche artistique de cette artiste montante de la scène française.
Pablo Alonso
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