This is another restless issue, moving from the uses of bad painting as a conceptual tool (as highlighted by Garder Eide Einarsson and Thomas Muelhenbach) to the complete mastery of the medium as witnessed by Katya Tylevich in the twilit studio of Michaël Borremans, from the threads of Chiharu Shiota’s highly evocative and emotional installations, to the thousands of knots that form Jacob Hashimoto vast flying kites. A restless medium by definition, video-art marks a pause in these pages, while Margherita Dessanay studies the aesthetics of the medium through the work of video artists such as William Lamson, John Wood & Paul Harrison, Alexander Ditmarov, Anne Harild, Oliver Michaels, Fran & Jim Rolland and Alexandra Hughes. This issue also travels in time and space, from Penelope Slinger’s adventures in the swinging London of the sixties, to the impact of 9/11 in post-Soviet Russia as anatomized by the work of cult figure Pavel Pepperstein, to finally offer one a luminous snapshot of recession-hit Barcelona as an art city today (through the work and the words of visual artists such as Javier Pérez, Samuel Salcedo, Martí Guixé and Alex Trochut.)


Index

Open files
Elena Habicher, Tim Enthoven, Rui Pedro Jorge, Ulrich Lamsfuss, Löwembräu Complex Zurich relaunch, Waqas Khan, Toshimitsu Baba, Stargazing, Annette Messager, Caro Niederer, Garry Winogrand, Living Walls, Onorato and Krebs, Eddie Peake, Yukiko Suto, Rubén Ortiz-Torres, Dora Longo Bahia, Thomas Ott, Luc Mattenberger, Guy Tillim, Juliette Bonneviot, Antonis Donef, Harding Meyer, Ellen Kooi, Alexej Meschtschanow

Showcase
Shay Kun: Holocaust Toys
Carlo Van de Roer: (Mis)trusting Photography
Cleon Peterson: Villains and Victims
Sean Vranizan: Corkscrew, Green Grass, Seashells, Molars
Chiharu Shiota: The Spider's Stratagem

Research
Video Art: The Discreet Charm of Video Art
Featuring William Lamson, John Wood & Paul Harrison, Alexander Ditmarov, Anne Harild, Oliver Michaels, Fran & Jim Rolland and Alexandra Hughes

Encounters
Thomas Muellenbach: Stranger than Fiction
Penelope Slinger: Down by the House
Dean Poole (Alt Group): All the World's a Gallery
Michaël Borremans: The Painter's Song
Gardar Eide Einarsson: Where is the Bomb?
The Life and Times of Pavel Pepperstein

Process
Jacob Hashimoto: How to Fly Thousands of Kites, Simultaneously, Indoors

Destination: Barcelona High & Low,
City Guide
Javier Tles
Studio Hey
Samuel Salcedo
Alex Trochut
Martí Guixé
Vasava
Lo Siento
Rafel G. Bianchi
Javier Pérez

Journal by Robert Shore
Kenneth Patchen: book and exhibition
You Animal, You! by Charlotte Cory
Raw + Material = Art, by Tristan Manco

Enditorial by Marc Valli