Summer / Fall 2015 – Magenta Magazine

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Summer / Fall 2015 Contents

Editor’s Letter

“Watching” and Learning by Bill Clarke

On the Cover

Geoffrey Farmer: The Last Two Million Years, 2007, exhibition copy, 2015 paper cut-outs from selected pages of The Last Two Million Years (foamcore plinths, Plexiglas frames, marble, incense).

Features

In-Between Worlds Photographer Meryl McMaster examines an autobiographical space between here and there.
by Matthew Ryan Smith

Food for Thought Edibles are central to Lisa Myers’ examination of personal and Native Canadian histories.
by Krystina Mierins

Speculative Satire Hito Steyerl's video works find new ways of revealing truths.
by Alison Cooley

Studio Without Walls Ulrike Arnold’s nomadic practice bridges the local and the global.
by Adam Barbu

Portfolios

Exhibition Reviews

Yinka Shonibare by Yaniya Lee

are you experienced? by Aryen Hoekstra

Dandy Lion by Earl Miller

Karen Kraven by Daniella E. Sanader

Paul Butler by Dagmara Genda

Natascha Niederstrass by Heather Saunders

Lindsay Morris by Bill Clarke

Home Ground by Amy Luo

Geoffrey Farmer by Kyra Kordoski

Sarindar Dhaliwal by Bart Gazzola

Anne-Renée Hotte by James D. Campbell

Tom of Finland / #RAWHIDE by Bill Clarke

Milutin Gubash by James D. Campbell

Flesh Marble Leaf & Twig by Benjamin Bruneau

Studio View

Romas Astrauskas by Bill Clarke

Books & Film

Kim Gordon: Girl in a Band by Bill Clarke

Couture Fois Trois by Bil Antoniou

Parting Shot

Saving Starling by Bill Clarke

Editor’s Letter

Flash Forward Incubator Show & Silent Auction, July 2015, Twist Gallery

“Watching” and Learning

Features

Meryl McMaster: Wingeds Call (version 1), 2015. 24 x 36 inches.

In-Between Worlds

Lisa Myers: strain to absorb (2015). Production stills. All images courtesy the artist.

Food for Thought

Hito Steyerl: Stills from How Not to Be Seen, A Fucking Didactic Educational.MOV File (2013). HD video file, single screen, 14 min. Images courtesy the artist and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.

Speculative Satire

Ulrike Arnold: Installation view of Cosmovisión de una tierra at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile; May 5 - 25, 2015. Photo: Gabriela Herrera O.

Studio Without Walls

Portfolios

Angélica Dass: Humanae

Lucy in Teal, from the series Revisiting Beauty

From the series Posers by Ho Tam

Exhibition Reviews

View of "Yinka Shonibare MBE : Pièces de résistance", 2015, DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal. Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball), 2004. Photo: Richard-Max Tremblay.

Yinka Shonibare

Are You Experienced? (Installation View, Olafur Eliasson)

are you experienced?

Jati Lindsay: Emmanuel Harrold 2014 #1, 2014. Courtesy of the artist.

Karen Kraven, installation view of Flip Flop, Punch Front, 2015. Photo credit Toni Hafkenscheid.

Paul Butler, Words Fall Short (Installation view). Courtesy Lisa Kehler Art + Projects.

Natascha Niederstrass, Installation view, Gallery 101, Ottawa.

Natascha Niederstrass

Lindsay Morris, Ascending (2012). Courtesy Lindsay Morris / INSTITUTE.

Manal alDowayan: Suspended Together – (Standing Dove, Eating Dove), 2012, Porcelain. Photo by Miguel Veterano, Capital D Studio © Barjeel Art Foundation.

Geoffrey Farmer

Sarindar Dhaliwal: the cartographer’s mistake: untitled (detail) (2012). Marble, salt. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.

Sarindar Dhaliwal

Anne-Renée Hotte: Solistes (2015). HD video, colour, sound. Images courtesy of the artist.

Anne-Renée Hotte

Tom of Finland: Untitled, (1987). Graphite on paper. Tom of Finland Foundation, Permanent Collection.

Tom of Finland / #RAWHIDE

Milutin Gubash: Lamps (detail) (2015). Courtesy Galerie Trois Points.

Flesh Marble Leaf & Twig

Studio View

Portrait: Toronto artist Romas Astrauskas at his home studio, August 2015. All photos: Bill Clarke.

Romas Astrauskas

Books & Film

Sonic Youth in the late-1980s (left to right): Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Kim Gordon, Steve Shelley.

Kim Gordon: Girl in a Band

Yves Saint Laurent in a still from L’Amor Fou, directed by Pierre Thoretton, 2010.

Couture Fois Trois

Parting Shot

Contemporary art conservator Sherry Phillips at work on Simon Starling’s Infestation Piece (Musselled Moore). Courtesy the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Photos: Dean Tomlinson.

Saving Starling