Domenico Quaranta, “When an Image Becomes a Work. Premesse a un’iconografia di Cattelan“, in Flash Art Online, January 25, 2012. Italian only, but if you can’t read, you can still look at images…
Laboratori: Merz Akademie
I started contributing short articles to the “new media” column of Italian magazine Artribune. The first article is online, and it’s about the Merz Akademie. The cover image has a wrong caption – the wonderful Flexible Dancefloor Disco is by Saskia Aldinger – but also Helene Dams’ I Can Has History is worth a look!
2012 Updates on the MINI Museum
The MINI Museum, my “museum en valise”, turned out to be an interesting challange, and a surprise, at least for me. Launched in September 2010, the project went slower than expected, but it’s still alive; and this is the first surprise. The Museum traveled, hand by hand, from London to Berlin, and from Berlin to the Netherlands, where it is currently based. And it left my circle of contacts very soon, and this is the second surprise. Here is a list of the artists who run it and contributed to its collection in 2011:
Paul B. Davis (London)
Thomson & Craighead (London)
Martin John Callanan (Berlin)
Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson (Berlin)
Belchkitchen | Quinten Dierick (Arnhem, The Netherlands)
Quinten handed it over Bertin van Vliet (Nijmegen, The Netherlands), who made the first show of 2012. The Museum is now in the hands of artist and curator Robbie Driessen, and its future, as ours, is uncertain. For more updates, check out the website!