Cataloging Desire and a Reluctant But Necessary Eulogy in ‘Russian Interiors’
To say these images are erotic would be a mistake; they are a more like a self-enforced catalogue of sexualized ego pandering. By Brad Feurehelm, ASX, December 2014 Andy Rocchelli’s “Russian Interiors” is first and foremost a beautifully realized book by Cesura Publishing. The tactile quality of the raised floral cover and the lifted […]
Camilo Jose Vergara on Looking at the World Trade Center
View from abandoned pier, Jersey City, New Jersey, 1970. “All of a sudden you would look around 360 degree angle, and there was the Trade Center.” Transcript excerpt from New York: The Center of the World, PBS WGBH American Experience Looking at the World Trade Center What was magical for me was that […]
Larry Clark on Cutting through the Bullshit and Hypocrisy of America (2007)
“People like Robert Frank inspired me. But I was really influenced more by people like Lenny Bruce.” By Raphaël Cuir, Art Press, August 2007 A year ago, seven short films by Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Gaspar Noé, Richard Prince, Marco Brambilla, Sam Taylor-Wood and Larry Clark were shown at Cannes under the title Destricted. […]
Werner Amann’s “Surf Fiction” and the Nature of the Game.
We spend merciless hours absorbing film, video, and internet collateral. Amann’s greatest trick with this book is to play on the nature of this game. By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, December 2014 Werner Amann’s “Surf Fiction” has landed in my lap at a time when I have been searching for a body of work that […]
A Multiplicity of Femininities in Flux in Schorr’s 8 WOMEN
A multiplicity of femininities in flux in Schorr’s 8 WOMEN By Charlie Tatum, ASX First things first: Collier Schorr’s 8 Women is strikingly beautiful. It’s comprised of thirty-two luscious, yet minimally styled, fashion shots of models, artists, and Schorr’s friends, culled from the past twenty years of her career. Many were snapped at hired shoots, […]
A Tour of Lucian Freud’s Studio
We Continue On Blithely With Our Own Economic Flagellation (2014)
@ Penelope Umbrico We continue on blithely with our own economic flagellation. By Michael Salu, ASX, December 2014 Earlier this year during a trip to Moscow, I neglected to switch off the data roaming on my smartphone. As you might expect, wandering environs beyond the remit of our communication overlords, I ran up […]
Co-ordination and Re-assignment in the Dissonant Steel Fish Tank
@ Giuseppe Micciché Co-ordination and Re-assignment in the Dissonant Steel Fish Tank By Brad Feuerhelm, ASX, December 2014 Cento passi is a affectionate, yet somnambulant and lightly traumatic study of photographer Giuseppe Micciché’s father’s decline into Alzheimer’s disease between 2011/2012. The book is an effective mediation on the oscillating and often times confusing […]