Jason Dodge: From Minimal Gestures to Narrative Conditions, Where Objects Become Thresholds of Meaning
We were leafing through the catalogue of an exhibition we had seen years ago at MACRO in Rome when Jason Dodge’s name began to resonate again from the pages, like a familiar call. Then we recalled that precise sensation: entering the space and not encountering a single work to contemplate, but rather an entire emotional […]
The Sculptural Unmaking: Urs Fischer and the Poetics of Disintegration
We’ve often found ourselves wondering what happens to large-scale installations once they’re dismantled. Not the portable kind, nor those conceived to be recreated elsewhere, but the massive, site-specific, time-bound constructions that seem impossible to preserve. When the exhibition ends, where do these works go to die? What remains of an installation that, by nature, resists […]
Ian Wilson: There Was a Discussion
There was a time when conceptual artists roamed the art world. But some were more so than others. The idea that “conceptual” might be synonymous with “radical” is tempting, yet it leaves an open question: what does it truly mean to be radical, and how far can an artist really go? The story of Ian […]
