ArtReview: May 2009

This Issue

FISCHLI & WEISS: BEYOND A JOKE

Wary of ending up playing a supporting role in one of Fischli & Weiss’s ‘scenarios’ when we met up with Switzerland’s most famous contemporary artist duo for an interview, we opened our questioning with all guns blazing.

SARAH MORRIS’S BEIJING

Morris’s latest project was shot during last summer’s Olympic Games. Wordless and fragmented, Beijing mixes footage of the mundane with images of celebrity dignitaries, and aims to prove that “meaning isn’t fixed at all”.

PLUS

THAT COULDN’T HAVE TAKEN YOU MUCH TIME
How to describe what Joe Bradley, Josh Smith, Justin Lieberman,
Dan Colen and Matt Johnson are up to without sparking outrage?
Here, a look at art that leaves the critic speechless… almost.

VIENNA
Bourgeois capital of Sachertorte and chamber music or smoke-filled incubator to art’s next wave? A bit of both, actually. We pay a visit

VIDEO EXTRAS
Films by Fischli & Weiss and Yarisal & Kublitz





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