INSIDE ISSUE NUMBER 46 THIS WEEK'S HEADLINES
Okay the weather is seriously conspiring against us... but Summer is truly here, really it is... With that, it's time to get out, stand on the streets pint in hand, lamenting the late sunset snigger snigger... What better week for that then a triple private view week of Pierre Khazem, Karl Lydon and Timothy Taylor (if you are invited). Just perfect to warm you before schlepping out to Seed Records' party and Electronic Elvis.

This is also the last week for artist-in-residence, Marine Huggonier showing a last still from Ariana and two new images from her two new images from her Ariana Album.

Summer also truly became summer in '75 when that film, Jaws bit its way into our lives. Now the blockbuster is an annual event. This year is bigger, Matrix Reloaded is promising to be more than just an event movie... but forget that, catch the London premiere of a rediscovered print of a Un Chien Andalou (it just had its world premiere in Cannes). We bet that Bunuel still puts the shivers into Spielberg!

ART:Boyd Webb; Jean-Pierre Khazem, Philippe Durand...; Karl Lydon; Mark Hosking; Mike Kelley & Tony Oursler; Timothy Taylor
CIRCUS:Giffords Circus
CLUB:Seed Records
CONCERT:Broadcast; Electronic Elvis; HangDog Sound System; The Dandelions; Yat-Kha: Storm Over Asia
DESIGN:Go Dutch
DJ:HangDog Sound System; Seed Records
FASHION:Paul Smith
FESTIVAL:Yat-Kha: Storm Over Asia
FILM:20 Years Without Bunuel; Serious About Shorts: Sheffield...; The Last Great Wilderness; Yat-Kha: Storm Over Asia
PRIVATE VIEW:Go Dutch; Karl Lyndon
TALK:Paul Smith
BOOK REVIEW: Gordon Matta-Clark
     

    Wednesday
21st May  
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TIMOTHY TAYLOR
Wednesday 21 May (Mon to Fri 10am - 6pm, Sat 11am - 5pm)
@ Timothy Taylor, 24 Dering Sfreet, W1 (020.7409.3344) Tube: Bond St.
Price: FREE
Links:  Timothy Taylor
It's quite a challenge to move into another dealer's old space, especially if it once belonged to Anthony D'Offay -- god knows what's under the floorboards. Fortunately, Timothy Taylor is no stranger to this, having set up in the beaux-arts barn. With award-winning architect Eric Perry re-designing the spaces and putting in a staircase to connect the two floors, having been at Waddingtons, and married to Lady Helen Taylor who assisted Karsten Schubert in his heady YBA days, expectations for Taylor's enterprise are high. With gallery mainstays Sean Scully and Craigie Aitchison, Taylor and his team have brought in art world hard-hitters like the de Kooning and Philip Guston estates, an Alex Katz and Jonathan Lasker forward line, combined with the quality mid-field of Jean-Marc Bustamante (this year's French representative in Venice), Roni Horn and Mario Testino (????). Taylor has surprised all by creating a venue for seeing foreign talent. With this new space, Taylor is poised to give his stars a chance to really shine. More importantly, by turning the old space into a project space, he is setting up a bigger opportunity for his stuttering youth team. (Show ends Sat 07/06.)

NB: On display will be a selection of new works from his artists as well as unusual works from the estates, including a Willem de Kooning and Philip Guston.
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ELECTRONIC ELVIS
Wednesday 21 May (8pm)
@ Shoreditch Electricity Showrooms, 39a Hoxton Sq., N1 (020.7739.6934) Tube: Old St.
Price: £5
Mojo Nixon once wrote a song called "Elvis is Everywhere", yup according to him everyone of you KultureFlashers has "a little bit of Elvis in you." What his song really means is that rather than just music, and Presley really had the sweetest voice, the man has risen to cultural icon status -- pilgrimages to his home, his own cottage industry -- albeit one with a PEIA (Professional Elvis Impersonators Association)! Maybe it's just the voice, but more likely it's the fact that he represents a certain fat, fried banana, sequined 14-hamburger American moment. Whatever it is, Elvis has a hold of us. Electronic Elvis -- performed live by Paul Fryer and Matty Ducasse, and mixed by Georgie Pin and Sally Dunbar -- is a collection of his songs interpreted purely by electronic sound, the only human element being the vocal ones. So it's back to his voice, don't be lonely tonight!
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    Thursday
22nd May  
DESIGN / PRIVATE VIEW
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GO DUTCH
Thursday 22 May (6 - 8pm)
@ Applied Arts Agency, 30 Exmouth Market, EC1 (020.7837.2632)
Price: FREE
You cannot suggest that Dutch designers have it easy as design is a national pastime. The relatively small scale of the country, long artistic traditions and a prosperous economy (with generous cultural funding) spawned a uniquely creative atmosphere. It facilitated unconventional approaches and a hermetic world of self-referentialism; it's impossible not to notice the impact of design in everyday Dutch life. The anarchy of their design scene is often over-romanticised but what was once a problem-solving industrial art no longer considers itself subservient. We are witnessing an urge for Dutch designers to establish a voice which is both polyphonic and diverse. Go Dutch is a result of an Applied Arts Agency research trip to Holland and is about sharing and contrasting Dutch Design with work from other countries (and a good excuse for a "Queens Day Party"). It is showcasing work by Esther Van Groeningen, Martin Guixe, Ineke Hans, Richard Hutten, Frank Tjepkema, Peter Van Der Jagt, and the UK launch -- of the new 'Shadow' light by designer of the year nominee, Tord Boontje.

NB: Private view from 6 - 8pm. Show ends Sat 26/07.
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KARL LYDON
Thursday 22 May (6 - 9pm)
@ MOT, Unit 54, Regents Studios, 8 Andrews Rd., E8 (07931.305.104) Tube: Bethnal Green
Price: FREE
Links:  Gymnasion
Ever since Modernity dusted off our perceptions of the world and accelerated contemporary life, artists have developed the sophistication to appreciate the amateur, naif and folk artist: Picasso's of le Douannier Rousseau, Ben Nicholson's of Alfred Wallis. Karl Lydon is quite the other, an art world insider forced into the role of reluctant artist. Having discovered art by assisting Derek Jarman in his painting studio, Lydon was slave-ganged by art world friends into the vocation. He is still the first amateur anti-artist to show in Tate Modern. His piece stating: "This is the last time I shall be showing my work because, to be honest, I wasn't taking it seriously and never will because my first love is skateboarding." Perhaps just like The Who, Lydon has been showing regularly, so for MOT 14 he's setting off 400 party poppers all built into one pull-string. At approximately 8.30pm with Styrofoam-helmeted(?) assistants, he's promising to set off his "last" show with a big POP! Complimenting this will be a video of another POP, filmed as a "cheap Zubrinski Point", and of course, some videos of him skateboarding into the sunset. Sheesh, just what the world needs now, an amateur postmodernist.
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GIFFORDS CIRCUS
Thursday 22 May (Thu to Tue 7:30pm & Sat to Tues 2:30pm)
@ Hoxton Square, N1, Tube: Old St.
Price: £20
Trumpeted as "the nation's most glorious troupe", Giffords Circus is less Cirque du Soleil and more '30s village green (complete with prancing ponies and a token strong man called Oleg). Its acts conjure up childhood summers spent in disused carparks with painted faces and sticky fairy-flossed fingers. Despite this naff whiff of nostalgia however, ringleaders Gerald and Toti Gifford offer something far removed from those makeshift, vaudevillian farces and buffooning clowns on Clapham Common. Theirs is a magical world which includes such talented oddities as an upside-down tap-dancing lady, a barefoot Dutch horse whisperer and an Argentine Gaucho. Recipients of the Jerwood Circus award at the end of last season, Giffords Circus also performed in a recent Frost French fashion video at the end of last season, making them more high-flying than your average tightrope walker...

NB: Runs until Tue 27/05.
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THE DANDELIONS
Thursday 22 May (10pm - 2am)
@ Gaz' Rockin' Blues, St. Moritz, 159 Wardour St., W1 (020.7437.0525 ) Tube: Tottenham Court Rd.
Price: £7 (£5 before 11pm)
The Dandelions is our favourite amongst the bands coming out of the new Swedish punk movement (swunk?) at the moment. Sounding a bit like The Hives but with more energy and looking a bit like The Hives but with better clothes, their malevolent Rock 'n' Roll is bound to soon get picked up by a major label and spread across the world. Until that happens though, this mini UK tour with five gigs in six days provides a foretaste of what is to come, with the five members of the band churning out songs such as "Oh God!", "Get on" and "Banned from Alain's" -- the latter telling the story of how the owner of the club where they played their first ever gig had to pull the plug after only 40 seconds because they were just too loud. Known for living as fast as their music (drummer Mattias Bergqvist once played an entire gig with a broken hand), The Dandelions might well have you fumble for that main switch, too.

NB: If you miss The Dandelions tonight you can catch 'em on Sat 24/05 at the Cobden Club, Mon 26/05 at the BeachClub (NHAC) and Tue 27/05 at Eyelash (Pop).
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    Friday
23rd May  
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JEAN-PIERRE KHAZEM, PHILIPPE DURAND...
Friday 23 May (6:30 - 9pm)
@ Laurent Delaye, 11 Saville Row, W1 (020.7287.1546) Tube: Piccadilly Circus
Price: FREE
Think back to those slightly disturbing Diesel ads from a while back with straplines like "Stay Young -- Drink Urine." The porcelain complexions and marginally disproportionate facial features lent the models an ethereal and simulacra-esque quality. Well those charming pieces of advertising were courtesy of Jean-Pierre Khazem, a man with an intriguing tendency for using masks to obscure models' faces. One of three artists comprising the Made In Paris exhibition (which brings Paris-based photographers and filmmakers to London), he keeps it sexily (sur)real here with Volume II . A suite of female nudes shot in leafy forest glades, these pieces continue the dialogue between bodies, human and commercial. Next up is Ryuta Amae, who specializes in large photo-derived prints of architecture and landscape environments. Here he presents "Hypnotic" -- a hyper-real and hyper-complex garden water feature image, with the computer-generated nature of the piece lending organic surfaces an unsettling appearance that toys with our sense of reality. Philippe Durand's contributuion is Sources (1999 -2000) -- eleven different photographs of springs in the French Alps. Features -- such as sunlight twinkling on the water and the plants flowing in the current -- are captured in stunning detail via the technique of 3D-imaging.

NB: Private view is Friday 23/05 at 6:30 - 9pm. Show ends Thu 12/06.
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20 YEARS WITHOUT BUNUEL
Friday 23 May
@ Cine Lumiere, 17 Queensberry Place, SW7 (020.7073.1350) Tube: South Kensington
Price: Check site for times and ticket prices
A newly discovered and restored version of the surrealist masterpiece, Un Chien Andalou (UK premiere Fri 23/05 at 7:45pm), is the highlight of a week-long celebration of the life and career of Luis Bunuel at Cine Lumiere. Other Bunuel classics such as Belle de Jour (and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie) are also being shown, but it is the rediscovered cut of the Spanish director's first film, a 1929 collaboration with Salvador Dali, that will draw the crowds. It's 17 short minutes of beautifully shocking cinema, transfixing from the very first scene, when a mustachioed barber, played by Bunuel himself, slips the blade of a razor lovingly into a woman's eyeball. (The Cine Lumiere Bunuel festival ends Fri 30/05.)

NB: This Bunuel celebration is organized by the Institut Francais, the Instituto Cervantes and the Imperial War Museum (which will show various films and hold talks after the week long celebration at Cine Lumiere -- Thu 05/06 till Thu 12/06 -- see site for full details).
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SERIOUS ABOUT SHORTS: SHEFFIELD...
Friday 23 May (8:15pm)
@ Curzon Soho, 93-107 Shaftesbury Ave., W1 (020.7439.4805) Tube: Leicester Square/Piccadilly
Price: £3
You know, life's secrets are in the detail: the humdrum routine of a lift attendant, old workmates chin-wagging over an ale, the multifarious uses for an old milk carton. Such edifying ephemera abounds in this collection of four short documentaries -- the latest instalment in the Curzon's Serious About Shorts series. The films would have been shown at last year's Sheffield International Documentary Festival, but there just weren't enough minutes in the event to cram these quality offerings in. Sheffield's loss is London's gain however: Greg Hall's Training looks at how aspiring young athletes handle society's pressures, while Melanie Hamdorff's Ups and Downs (OK, we'll let you have pun) is a ribald account of life in the lift at Greenwich footbridge. Breathing life into bits of old junk and factory worker reminiscence are the subjects of The Man from Welling and Pirelli - End Of An Era, directed by Tim Jones and Gary Cassey respectively. Insightful and life-affirming stuff -- and you get some good ideas about what do with knackered umbrellas too.
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SEED RECORDS
Friday 23 May (8pm - 3am)
@ Aldwych disused tube station, Corner of Surrey St. and The Strand, Tube: Temple
Price: £15
Blow open the grating in the long hallway and climb to the upper chamber watching your back as you pick up your goodies. Drop down into the ticket booth area, defend yourself whilst looking for another opening above the booth; jump up and climb into a small room. Take the Maintenance Room Key, and exit via the door. Follow the right-hand escalator, run, jump the pit and plug The Immortal, then check the door. The boys with toys know that's how you enter Aldwych station in the guise of Lara Croft tomb raider heart-throb; they also know how to enter a Seed Records party (probably the last in this old station). The goodies on offer tonight are just as digital but much more for real, they include, Ceephax Acid Crew, Luke Vibert, DJ Rephlex Records, Jonny Jenkinson, K-Rock, Posthuman and Ardisson. Check site for full line-up, then shoot your seed in this tunnel and leave your little bro' in control of the Playstation.

NB: Tickets available from Smallfish , Rough Trade and stargreen.com.

Giveaway: We a pair of tickets to give away. It'll go to one randomly picked subscriber who can tell us when we last featured a Seed party.
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    Saturday
24th May  
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HANGDOG SOUND SYSTEM
Saturday 24 May (8pm - 2am)
Price: £4
HangDog Sound System presents: A Hoedown of Bad Ass Swamp Rot and Punkabilly. HangDog's Charlie Munn has been up to his elbows in this music (which he describes as FILTH) for much longer than it's been fashionable -- his DJ sets involve records hand-picked from the most random, dusty joints imaginable; original recordings by unheard-of bluesy skuzzmasters he met by the Mississippi (we promise) to "things" salvaged from some dustbin in Hamburg... His ear for quality, rude sounds is undeniable and this event should be steeped in atmosphere: The Leabridge Rowing Club provides the venue. Anyone who knows this place will be smiling already; a beautiful, wooden shack by the side of the canal with a big balcony where, if your ears pop, you can sit out and watch the swans go by in silence. With live-sets by The Dead Plants and High Town.
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    Monday
26th May  
CONCERT / FESTIVAL / FILM
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YAT-KHA: STORM OVER ASIA
Monday 26 May (5 pm)
@ Barbican Centre, Barbican Centre, EC2 (020.7638.8891) Tube: Barbican
Price: £7 - £12.50
Imagine, if you will, a place beyond Siberia, let's call it Tuva, a place so remote that it makes Outer Mongolia look like inner suburbia. Then imagine that the Leningrad Cowboys come from there, except, the way things are in dreams, they're not the Leningrad Cowboys, they're Sonic Youth (except Tuvan, obviously...), and except that, as well as electric guitars, they play traditional Tuvan instruments and the singer sings in the traditional Tuvan open throat style (like Bulgarian open throat singing on steroids, if you have the faintest idea what we're talking about at all). Then you are probably imagining something like the most improbable kick ass Rock 'n' Roll band in the world. You are imagining Yat-Kha. And they are real. Crazy world, huh? Yat-Kha will be playing a live, improvised accompaniment to Vsevolod Pudovkin's '28 silent classic Storm over Asia, as part of the X-Bloc Reunion Festival (Fri 23/05 to Sat 31/05) of "urban and ethnic music from the former Eastern Bloc." And while we're at it, we would also recommend Boban Markovic's Balkan brass band on Sat 24/05 (as featured in Kusturica's Underground), checking out some of that Bulgarian singing (the Koutev Ensemble on Thu 29/05) and the utterly heartbreaking Mostar Sevdah Reunion on Fri 30/05.

NB: Yat-Kha: Storm Over Asia is part of the Barbican's X-Bloc Reunion Festival (Thu 23/05 till Sat 31/05).
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MIKE KELLEY & TONY OURSLER
Monday 19 May (Mon to Sat 10am - 7:30pm; Sun 12 - 7:30pm )
@ Barbican Centre, Barbican Centre, EC2 (020.7638.8891) Tube: Barbican
Price: FREE
Upon meeting at Cal Arts in the late '70s, and under the tutelage of arch Conceptualists John Baldessari and Laurie Anderson, Mike Kelley and Tony Oursler soon formed the Performance punk rock band The Poetics. Comprising of hallucinatory video projections, visceral sculptures, demonic paintings, and interviews with their musical heroes, Poetics Project 1977-1997 serves as a mock rockumentary installation, that ultimately examines the methods by which we construct our personal, as well as collective, histories. This physical, seemingly authentic, evidence of their LSD fuelled days at art college, the current political paranoia, and the wider revolution in popular culture at that time, was in fact first constructed in '97 for Documenta X. Whatever really happened back then, this interactive ghost train ride of a show goes far in evoking the early innovative and subversive spirit of these two "ex- Catholic" , "ex-painters", and in cementing their place in Art History -- at the very least.

NB: Show ends 20/07.
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BOYD WEBB
Ends Sunday 25 May (Wed to Sat 11am - 8pm; Sun 12 - 5pm)
@ Estorick Collection, 39a Canonbury Sq., N1 (020.7704.9522)
Price: general £3.50 | concessions £2.50
Nothing is quite as it seems in the strange and funny world of Boyd Webb. His work leads you into a spin of narratives; eventually leaving you lost pasting bits together that aren't even there. The Estorick Collection is currently showing his forth and latest film Horse and Dog, which follows two pantomime animals in the English countryside and continues Webb's presentation of observed absurdities that have long been a feature of his work. Complementing the film is a selection of Webb's early photographs from the '70s. The film and the photographs see Webb continuing his play on sense as he endeavours to "take the domestic into realms beyond the imaginable." Photographic diptychs and text seem to facilitate the narrative but, at the same time, gives the viewer a false promise of the real and therefore it seems natural that works such as the brilliantly titled and engaging, The Mandatory Second Opinion (1978) begin to cross into the dark realm of surrealism. (Show ends Sun 25/05.)

NB: Horse & Dog was commissioned by Estorick Collection, Film and Video Umbrella and Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art and Fine Art, Oxford and will be shown as part of Crooked Light at the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol from 29/06 till 26/07.
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PAUL SMITH
Wednesday 28 May (7:15pm)
@ Design Museum, Butlers Wharf, Shad Thames, SE1 (020.7940.8790) Tube: Tower Hill
Price: general £10 | concessions £6
Paul Smith is a clever chap. His "classic with a twist" tailoring manages to be both of and outside fashion. This contradiction has earned him a great deal of money and yet he's never compromised the small company values integral to the operation he still runs from a small office at his Floral Street shop. Unlike Burberry who re-invigorated themselves with a retro-modern approach to heritage clothing that owes a lot to the boy from Nottingham, Smith has avoided being knocked off by pikey market traders.This is because Smith has an intuitive grasp of the notion that the design is in the detail. His signature approach eshews brash labelling and patterns in favour of hidden quirks like a flamboyant lining or telling cuff detail. This love of detail is expressed in his attitudes to design in general and he has often used his stores to display objects he loves. Tonight's talk at the Design Museum is sure to find Smith enthusing on aspects of design that he has found inspiring, as well as his hosting of the Design Museum and British Council's Great Brits exhibition of new British design during the 2003 Milan Furniture Fair.

NB: For tickets call 020.7940.8783 or email talks@designmuseum.org.
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THE LAST GREAT WILDERNESS
Ends Thursday 29 May
@ Various cinemas
Price: Check press for times and ticket prices
The Last Great Wilderness has all the attributes of a modern day horror movie complete with the isolated house and spooky goings on. But this is a film with twists and turns and a consistent, yet unpredictable script that makes it highly watchable. As Charlie (co-writer and of Monarch of the Glen fame, Alastair MacKenzie) and his companion, the slightly psychotic, but mainly confused Vincente (Jonny Phillips) set out on a road trip, all is not what it seems. Early on, preconceptions are already jilted realising this is not an adventure into the wilderness of the Scottish Highlands, but more into that of the soul. In this dark and often comical film, there is a sense of menace culminating throughout. For Vincente, his fate is sealed from the outset. A slightly lost character, we never learn quite who he is, while Charlie's paranoia and dismal attitude has something for us all to respond to. He is as confused as we are as to what is going on, but it is among this confusion that Charlie deals with his demons and for him Vincente's fate marks the final pull from his own personal wilderness.

NB: The film's director David MacKenzie (Alastair's brother) second feature, Young Adam, starring Ewan McGregor and Tilda Swinton premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last Sat 17/05.
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BROADCAST
Friday 30 May (7:30pm)
@ ULU, Malet St. (020.7664.2000) Tube: Goodge St., WC1
Price: £9
Broadcast are Birmingham's finest. A city more known for its metal than melody, this band bring you lo-fi blissful melancholy. Having toured extensively through the US, Canada and the UK, they have just released a six track taster Pendulum, pre-empting their up and coming album Ha Ha Sound due in August. The tunes are low key but beautiful, seeing as a lot of you will already own their first LP Noise made by People we won't go on about Keenan's dreamy voice and eerie pop. And the rest of you that aren't so familiar, go and see the lovelies, don't keep yourself in the dark.

NB: Support from Imitation Electric Piano and The Projects. Tickets available at wayahead.com.

Giveaway: We have two copies of Broadcasts latest EP Pendulum to give away. They'll go to two randomly picked subscribers who can tell us how many people make up broadcast.
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MARK HOSKING
Ends Sunday 29 June (Thu to Sun 12 - 6pm)
@ IBID Projects, 210 Cambridge Heath Rd., E2 (020.8983.4355)
Price: FREE
There's an ominous edginess to Mark Hosking's sculptures. Throughout this exhibition, he systematically strips down the mores of contemporary existence to the sparest of insalubrious signifiers. In City River Fishing, suspended cotton thread, copper wire and mobile phone power cords are melded together to insinuate three figures: two male and one female. Hanging topsy-turvy from these frames, the everyday paraphernalia of wealth and security including shoes, keys, coins and credit cards have been adapted into basely utilitarian fishing equipment. In the back gallery, a golden couture sandal has been re-shaped into a sinister-looking mousetrap -- the heel sharpened to a glistening metal point. Alongside, a satin tie has been folded and sewn with shoestrings into a makeshift facemask to protect from some impromptu chemical or biological attack. Across the implied narrative of some unspoken cataclysmic event, Hosking testifies to the enduring industriousness of mankind to evolve, both practically and creatively, in the face of extraordinary adversity.

NB: Show ends Sun 29/05.
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    features
BOOK REVIEW
 
Gordon Matta-Clark
Thomas Crow and Corinne Diserens
Phaidon: £45

Buy Gordon Matta-Clark online or buy it through Walther Koenig Books at the Serpentine Gallery (020.7706.4907).

Son of the Surrealist painter Roberto Matta, Gordon Matta-Clark was a central figure on the art scene in '70s New York and subsequently became a cult-figure in the contemporary art/architecture world. Matta-Clark studied architecture at Cornell University, NY and proceeded to extend his deconstructivist investigations of his chosen field of study through performance, drawing, sculpture, photography, video and film. Famous for his cutting and slicing of derelict buildings as well as his extraction of building segments, he turned these abandoned spaces into public art. The paradox in Mattta-Clark's legacy is that, today, there are no remains of his architectural sculptures except for the various photographic records and drawings that serve as testimonials to the unique work of this daring and innovative artist. This book is the first definitive monograph on Matta-Clark, who died at the young age of 35, and includes an essay by Thomas Crow, original essays by Judith Russi Kirshner and Christian Kravagna as well as a section composed of unpublished and rare essays and interviews compiled by the editor, Corinne Diserens.

Giveaway: We have one copy of Gordon Matta-Clark to give away. It'll go to one randomly picked subscriber who can tell us the name of the restaurant that GMC established in Soho New York.

Gordon Matta-Clark: The Space Between (2003)
James Attlee and Lisa Le Feuvre
Nazraeli Press: £15
Buy through the CCA Bookshop or through Walther Koenig Books.

Reorganizing Structure By Drawing Through It (1997)
Sabine Breitwieser, Peter Fend and Pamela M. Lee
Generali Foundation and Walther Koenig: £65
Buy through Walther Koenig Books.
Info on the book.

NB: Gordon Matta-Clark: The Space Between exhibiton is currently on view at the AA in London until Sat 30/05 (it originated in Glasgow, Scotland at the CCA).

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