ArtReview April 2017
Featuring Nil Yalter, Peter Friedl, Pravdoliub Ivanov, a survey of Athens ahead of Documenta, an artist project by Tyler Coburn on speculative evolution and more
In this issue
Martin Herbert’s pick of ten must-see April exhibitions – in Kassel, Basel, Stockholm, New York, London, Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin, Glasgow and Milan
Nil Yalter – Mark Rappolt finds a nexus of political, economic, feminist and migrant issues – and an inherent empathy – in the work of the Turkish-French artist
Athenian Panopticon –Iason Athanasiadis wonders whether the traumatised streets of Athens might inspire Documenta to challenge our understanding of the global moment
Pravdoliub Ivanov – Oliver Basciano on the Bulgarian artist whose work suffuses the stuff of everyday life with unresolved geopolitical tensions and anxieties
Peter Friedl – As reality begins to quietly unravel through this artist’s staging, re-staging and de-staging of history, Raimar Stange wonders whether his frustrated narratives point to a way beyond posttruth
Ergonomic Futures – An excerpt from Tyler Coburn’s ongoing multipart project looks through the lens of speculative evolution to investigate alternative scenarios for imagining new types of bodies
Great Critics and Their Ideas – Socrates talks to Matthew Collings about spatial ideas in painting and Nick Serota’s magnetism
Our columnists have their say…
Jonathan T.D. Neil on how the Trump administration will be defunding all that is good in life; Maria Lind on the importance of cultivating the counterintuitive in art in times of political panic; J.J. Charlesworth on the Dana Schutz controversy and whether an artist’s colour should limit the subjects they can represent; and Heather Phillipson on de-zoning in a busy metropolis
Reviews
Wolfgang Tillmans at Tate Modern, London, by Matthew McLean
Babette Mangolte at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, by Stefanie Hessler
Moshe Ninio at Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, by Ory Dessau
Sean Snyder at Galerie Neu, Berlin, by Mark Prince
Spencer Sweeney at Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, by John Quin
Laure Prouvost at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, by Dominic van den Boogerd
Philippe Parreno at Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, by Justin Jaeckle
Michael Krebber at Kunsthalle Bern, by Aoife Rosenmeyer
Klara Kristalova at Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, by Jacquelyn Davis
Roger Ballen at Istanbul Modern, by Sarah Jilani
Sarah Pichlkostner at Josh Lilley, London, by Robert Barry
COUM Transmissions at Humber Street Gallery, Hull, by John Quin
Simon Dybbroe Møller at Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, by Laura Smith
The Place is Here at Nottingham Contemporary, by Ben Eastham
Field Work at Tiwani Contemporary, London, by Gabriel Coxhead
Maria Hupfield at The Power Plant, Toronto, by Bill Clarke
Thomson & Craighead at Young Projects, Los Angeles, by Jonathan T. D. Neil
Judith Bernstein at The Box, Los Angeles, by Jonathan Griffin
Holton Rower at Venus LA Los Angeles, by Lindsay Preston Zappas
Lynn Hershman Leeson at Bridget Donahue, New York, by Jeppe Ugelvig
Jordan Kasey at Nicelle Beauchene, New York, by Owen Duffy
Gladys Nilsson at Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, by Ashton Cooper
Sadie Barnette at Baxter St Camera Club of New York, by Sam Korman
Cynthia Daignault at Flag Art Foundation, New York, by Scott Indrisek
Hellen Ascoli & Jay Sullivan at Concepción 41, Antigua, Guatemala, by Laura A. L. Wellen
Yoshua Okón at Parque Galería, Mexico City, by Laura A. L. Wellen
Books…
Imagine Wanting Only This, by Kristen Radtke
Rise of the Dungeon Master: Gary Gygax and the Creation of D&D, by David Kushner and Koren Shadmi
South and West: From a Notebook, by Joan Didion
Ren Hang, edited by Dian Hanson
Plus…
A new strip inspired by the life and work of Federico García Lorca, by Tobias Tak; and a new episode of A Curator Writes in which I.Kurator fins himself fearing for his life after receiving a ‘special’ note from one of his fans…