“Jannis Kounellis in Six Acts,” the first retrospective of the Greek artist’s work in North America since 1986, opened this past month at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. On the occasion of this rare survey, Artforum contributing editor David Rimanelli zeroes in on the Arte Povera giant’s career-spanning “blocked door” series, reflecting on the seemingly contradictory qualities that propel and complicate the artist’s oeuvre.THE LAMEST JOKE about Arte Povera is calling it ricca. I searched my memory and the internet for some hidebound-but-amusingly-so British art critic who made the crack
In painting I was able to satisfy my leg and nipple fetishism. P. MolinierI WAS SHOWING A FRIEND some pictures by cross-dressing painter-photographer Pierre Molinier, and we were arrested by one of the artist en travesti, posing beside one of his paintings, wearing a maniacal grin of the sort one comes to expect in his photographs a grin that is rich, beautiful, luxurious, desirable, insane, “Joan Crawford stars in Possessed!” The interior is drab, dreary, “comfortable,” in that asphyxiating way we’re familiar with from Zola’s Thérèse Raquin. Molinier is a character mostly of the postwar period,
In Arts magazine from 1976 to 1990 critic, art historian, and onetime Artforum contributing editor Robert Pincus-Witten's vivid and frequently contentious missives recorded his comings and goings in the overheated art world of the ’80s. Beginning in this issue Artforum reprises the name and spirit of Pincus-Witten’s column with “Entries,” contributing editor David Rimanelli's new monthly diary chronicling his own adventures in the world of art today.MARCH 14JULIAN SCHNABEL opens at Gagosian. A jolly, gaudy, back-to-the-’80s affair. Pretty people, ornate people, ridiculously dressed people.
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