Spring 2016 – Magenta Magazine

Magenta Magazine

Magenta Magazine

Spring 2016 Contents

Editor’s Letter

Tag, you’re it! by Bill Clarke

On the Cover

Karine Payette: Entre nous I (2016). Image courtesy the artist and Art Mûr, Montreal.

Features

Negative Reversals Thomas Ruff manipulates the layers and histories of photographic images.
by Lauren Fournier

Labour and Leisure Rodney Graham and the aesthetics of break time.
by Xenia Benivolski

Making Strange Liza Eurich’s uncanny objects confound passive viewing.
by Jamie Faye Ryan

Hard Science Environmental alarm bell, artwork or both? With a team of scientists, artist Kelly Jazvac makes a newly discovered ‘rock’ art’s latest Readymade.
by Matthew Ryan Smith

Painterly Progressions Ryan Quast reconstructs the everyday one brushstroke at a time.
by Bill Clarke

Portfolios

Nelson Henricks

Exhibition Reviews

Jon Rafman/Mark Soo by Shauna Jean Doherty

Marvin Luvualu Antonio by Yaniya Lee

Colin Lyons by Dagmara Genda

Ian Willms by Kerry Manders

Lorna Bauer by James D. Campbell

Amy Friend/A Field Guide to Nowhere by Bart Gazzola

Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens by Benjamin Bruneau

Material Girls by Vicky Nguyen

Studio View

Jen Aitken by Bill Clarke

Books & Film

Sally Mann: Hold Still by Heather Saunders

Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict by Bil Antoniou

Joshua Schwebel: Subsidy by JA Pedersen

Parting Shot

Art Always Everywhere by Sara Graham

Editor’s Letter

Tag, you’re it!

Features

Negative Reversals

Labour and Leisure

Painterly Progressions

Portfolios

Nelson Henricks

Exhibition Reviews

Mark Soo: Koons On Ice (2015). Digital video installation, sound, plexiglass, 4 min 11 sec. Ed 2/5 + IIIAP

Jon Rafman/Mark Soo

Marvin Luvualu Antonio: Dispossessed /Pt 1. Installation view.

Marvin Luvualu Antonio

Colin Lyons: Automatic Ruins (2011–2013) (detail). Zinc etching plates, copper sulphate, galvanized steel. Courtesy aceartinc.

Ian Willms: The mountain range where he crashed (2014). 56x84 pigment print on trace paper. Courtesy of the artist.

Lorna Bauer: Blue Fountain (installation detail).

Amy Friend: Star Gazing (2015). Photo credit: Toni Hafkenscheid. Courtesy of the artist.

Amy Friend/A Field Guide to Nowhere

Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens: Putting Life to Work (Exhibition detail). Courtesy of the artists and the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University. Photo: Paul Litherland

Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens

Deirdre Logue: Velvet Crease (2012) (video still). 3 channel video, 2:23.

Studio View

Books & Film

Sally Mann: Hold Still

Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict

Joshua Schwebel: Subsidy

Parting Shot

Art Always Everywhere