Fall / Winter 2014 – Magenta Magazine

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Magenta Magazine

Fall/Winter 2014 Contents

Editor’s Letter

Times of Reflection by Bill Clarke

On the Cover

Dead Heroes: Icarus, 2013, chromogenic print, 16 x 20 in.

Features

Concrete Canyons Letha Wilson's photo/sculpture mash-ups re-envision the American West.
by Vanessa Nicholas

Culturally Contentious Divya Mehra and the art of busting stereotypes.
by John G. Hampton

Future, Tense Analyzing the present, and predicting what‘s to come, at the 2014 Montreal Biennale.
by Benjamin Bruneau

Magenta at 10 Founder MaryAnn Camilleri reflects on a decade of supporting the art of photography.
by Simon Bainbridge

Portfolios

Haley Morris-Cafiero

Exhibition Reviews

African Cosmos by Ellyn Walker

Andrea Carlson by Natalia Lebedinskaia

Wendy Coburn by Xenia Benivolski

Brett Despotovich by Benjamin Bruneau

Jean-Marie Delavalle by James D. Campbell

Marcel Dzama by Bill Clarke

Cerith Wyn Evans by Bill Clarke

Raphael Hefti & Agnieszka Polska by April Steele-Edwards

Lee Henderson by Bill Clarke

Harold Klunder by James D. Campbell

Pierre Huyghe by Bill Clarke

Modern Visions by Bart Gazzola

Wayne Ngan by Romas Astrauskas

Lauchie Reid by Trish Boon

Roman Signer by Alex Bowron

Joseph Tisiga by Ellyn Walker

Studio View

Kristiina Lahde by Bill Clarke

Books & Film

Remembering The Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr. by Bil Antoniou

Parting Shot

Cat-Calling Card by Bill Clarke

Editor’s Letter

Pages from the scrapbook of William Henry Richard Clarke (1894 - 1972), circa 1955.

Times of Reflection

Features

Letha Wilson: Wall in Blue Ash Tree (2011). Drywall, joint compound, paint, wood studs. 18' h x 16' w x 4"d. Installation at the Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois.

Concrete Canyons

Divya Mehra: fake political art (You're good at making slogans), 2014. Acrylic vinyl and acrylic deep base paint, dimensions variable.

Culturally Contentious

Emanuelle Léonard: still from Postcard from Bexhill-on-Sea, 2014, video.

Evgenia Arbugaeva (US): Stone Skipping From Rusty Barge.

Portfolios

Dead Heroes: Hyacinth, 2013, chromogenic print, 16 x 20 in.

Haley Morris-Cafiero: Bikini, from the series The Wait Watchers.

Haley Morris-Cafiero

Susana Reisman: 24"x1/4"x24" Plywood (2013). Archival pigment print.

Exhibition Reviews

Female figures (ere ibeji). Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, early 20th century.

Andrea Carlson: Ink Babel (2014). Ink and oil on paper, 304.8 x 457.2 cm.

Wendy Coburn (with Aviva Rubin): Centre Stage (2011-13).

Brett Despotovitch: Installation view of bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk! All images courtesy the artist.

Brett Despotovich

Jean-Marie Delavalle, from the series The Quebec Filter (Screen no. 3), 1971, projection of 36 slides 35 mm, 15-second intervals. Courtesy of the artist.

Jean-Marie Delavalle

Marcel Dzama: Still for Une danse des bouffons (or A jester’s dance), 2013. Video projection, 1:18 min, black and white, sound. Commissioned by Toronto International Film Festival, 2013. All images courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London.

Cerith Wyn Evans: Installation view, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London (17 September, 17 – November 9, 2014) © 2014 READS. All images © Cerith Wyn Evans/White Cube. Sponsored by Bloomberg Philanthropies.

Cerith Wyn Evans

Agnieszka Polska: I Am the Mouth II, film still, 2014. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Zak | Branicka, Berlin.

Raphael Hefti & Agnieszka Polska

Lee Henderson: The Known Effects of Lightning on the Body (2014). Film still.

Harold Klunder: Helios (Greek God of the Sun), 2013-14. Oil on canvas, 183 x 152.5 cm. All images courtesy Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal.

Installation view: Pierre Huyghe: IN. BORDER. DEEP at Hauser & Wirth London (2014). © Pierre Huyghe. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth, London. Photo: Hugo Glendinning

Arthur Lismer: Autumn, Bon Echo (1923). Oil on canvas. Collection of the Mendel Art Gallery. Gift of the Mendel family, 1965. All works from the Collection of the Mendel Art Gallery. All images courtesy the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon.

Wayne Ngan: Installation view at Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto (2014).

Lauchie Reid: The True Wheel

Roman Signer: Kitfox Experimental (2014). Site-specific installation at the Kesselhaus (Boiler House). Images courtesy KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin.

Joseph Tisiga: Untitled VI (2014). Paper collage, oil on canvas.

Studio View

Toronto artist Kristiina Lahde in her home studio, November 2014. Photos by Bill Clarke.

Kristiina Lahde

Books & Film

Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr., film still (2013). Courtesy HBO.

Remembering The Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr.

Parting Shot

Adrian Piper: My Calling Card # 2 (1986). Front, offset lithography on card stock.

Cat-Calling Card