[Oberlist] Despre „Aurora” @ Summer 2011 in Artforum

[Igor Mocanu]

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 *ACTING OUT: THE AB-EX EFFECT. *
<http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=28352>The world was supposed to
end this past month, but we're still here. No
Rapture, no Apocalypse. The same could be said of Abstract Expressionism:
That dripping, demonstrative, unabashedly tactile practice has met its maker
many times over. Yet its effects are everywhere to be seen today. This
special section of *Artforum*'s summer issue considers the historical
nuances and contemporary persistence of AbEx—and the ways in which artists
are engaging its expanded notions of affect, material, and experience, but
to vastly different ends. More than twenty critics, artists, scholars, and
curators feel the heat.

· Curator *Harry Cooper* reveals the roiling contradictions of Abstract
Expressionism—the "band of selves," the "controlled accident"—that have
shaped much art today.

*"The AbExers devised various strategies to dislodge a picturesque
relationship to the world—and yet, like a bad perfume, it hung around."*
—Harry Cooper

· Artist *Amy Sillman* <http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=28354> isn't
ashamed to like AbEx—and seeks to understand why its vulgarity, its
virtuosity, and its campiness have been reclaimed by artists, not least
women and queers, now.

*"AbEx: Saw it? Loved it! Got the tote bag—and it came with a free Charlie
Parker record!"*
—Amy Sillman

· *Terry Winters* talks with curator *John Elderfield* in anticipation of
his blockbuster *"De Kooning: A Retrospective,"* opening this fall at MoMA.

· *David Joselit* distinguishes between abstraction then and now, from the
"passage" of signs in AbEx to the "broadcast medium" of contemporary
painting.

· And: *Daniel Marcus* traces the suppression and reappearance of the figure
and the face in the paintings of *Jean Dubuffet, Cathy Wilkes*, and cover
artist Josh Smith; conservator *Carol Mancusi-Ungaro* brings the
preservation of the AbEx monochrome to the surface; and *Graham Bader* finds
the painterly gesture both emptied and full in the circulation and
transmission of *Roy Lichtenstein*'s Pop "brushstrokes."

· Five *"Close-ups"* illuminate single projects that sit in the nexus—or the
wake—of AbEx:
· *Carroll Dunham* <http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=28355> on *William
Baziotes* <http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=28355>'s odd *Dwarf*, 1947
· *Ann Temkin* <http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=28357> on Cy
Twombly<http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=28357>'s
transitional *Academy*, 1955
· *Jordan Kantor* on the cool hand of *Albert Oehlen*'s *"Fingermalerei,"*2008–
· *Mark Godfrey* <http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=28361> on *Christopher
Wool* <http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=28361>'s new work for the Venice
Biennale
· and *Molly Warnock* on *art informel* impresario *Georges Mathieu*'s
frenzied *Battle of the Bouvines*, 1954

· Also: Fourteen artists—including *Richard
Prince*<http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=28363>,
*Ei Arakawa* <http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=28363>, *Nicole
Eisenman*<http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=28363>,
*Scott Lyall* <http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=28363>, and *Julian
Schnabel* <http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=28363>—offer their personal
takes on AbEx.

· Plus: *Cory Arcangel* <http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=28338> takes *
Euro-trance* <http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=28338> seriously;
curator *Achim
Hochdörfer* introduces Austrian artist *Heimo Zobernig*'s "1000 Words"; with
the rise of computational architecture, critic *Sean Keller calls for
architects to look at painting again; Okwui Enwezor* considers the
controversies surrounding *Ai Weiwei* and *Sharjah Biennial 10; James
Meyer*casts his vote for the Whitney Museum of American Art's
*"Glenn Ligon: AMERICA"*; *Ina
Blom*<http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=28347>plays the audience to
*Jutta Koether* <http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=28347>'s "The Thirst" at
Moderna Museet, Stockholm; *Amy
Taubin*<http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=28342>contemplates Romanian
filmmaker
*Cristi Puiu* <http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=28342>'s *Aurora*; and
much more, as *Artforum* closes its forty-ninth season.


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than 400 cities—at www.artforum.com/guide





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