Flash Art #349 – Winter 2024-25

Tom Burr in Conversation with Gordon Hall; Visual Essay by Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin; Brett Ginsburg in Conversation with Cusson Cheng; Coumba Samba by Olivia Kan-Sperling; Matthew Barney by Travis Diehl; Chicago: Model City by Mark Acciari; Gordon Matta-Clark; I <3 NY by Daniel Merritt; Laura Orozco in Conversation with Leslie Moody Castro; Jasmine Gregory by Margaret Kross; Maren Karlson by Marie Catalano; Elaine Cameron-Weir by Caroline Elbaor; B. Ingrid Olson by Alex Bennett; David L. Johnson by Jessica Kwok; Nina Hartmann by Gea Politi; Enemy from Space by Danielle Dean; reviews: "Energies" Swiss Institute, New York by Hindley Wang; "Scientia Sexualis" ICA, Los Angeles by Meka Boyle; Mike Kelley "Ghost and Spirit" Tate Modern, London by Isabelle Bucklow; Martine Syms "Total" Lafayette Anticipations, Paris by Hugo Bausch Belbachir; Chiffon Thomas Perrotin, Paris by Qingyuan Deng; "After Images" Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin by Philipp Hindahl; Cosima von Bonin "Songs for Gay Dogs" Mudam, Luxembourg by Ben Broome.

This winter issue of Flash Art delves into the essence of desire in today's context, and explores what it means to be an artist in the United States at this moment. With terms like "brat" and "demure" being used to describe various lifestyles, we are prompted to consider what a new understanding of desire might look like. Following Shumon Basar's concept of "endcore," which captures the anxiety that social media, alarming news, and tumultuous historical moments have instilled in our society, we ask ourselves: Is desire still something we yearn for?
For this issue, we invited artists working in different media to aphorize the idea of desire or anti-desire.
Tom Burr, in conversation with Gordon Hall, discusses the origins of his Torrington Project, an endeavor stemming from Burr's desire to allow works created over the years to share the same space and engage in dialogue with one other, as well as his dissatisfaction with the constraints of the current art system. The project represents a space for rethinking artistic practice. Burr appears on the cover of the winter issue, photographed by David Brandon Geeting in his studio in Torrington, wearing Gucci.
On the occasion of their show "It Waives Back" at Fondazione Prada in Tokyo, Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartincontributed to this issue with a striking visual essay featuring stills from their latest film, TITLE WAIVE (2019–24) — a dynamic collage of moments, recorded over seven years on Fitch and Trecartin's property in Ohio — along with archival images. Fitch and Trecartin have created a special visual piece for the cover.
Brett Ginsburg talks to Cusson Cheng about the nuances of his spatial choreographies. Together, they examine the ebb and flow of meaning in contemporary art, and the art of manipulating the viewer's perspective through a transformative experience that resonates beyond the typical white cube space. For his cover story, Ginsburg was photographed by Luis Corzo in his studio in New York, wearing Stone Island.
Coumba Samba is profiled by Olivia Kan-Sperling for this issue, in an exploration of Samba's multifaceted practice, which includes paintings, performance, and also music, to communicate raw emotion, many references, and life being compressed into something deceptively easy to consume. Samba appears on the cover photographed by Lengua in London, wearing Stefan Cooke and Kuboraum.

Flash Art is a contemporary art and culture magazine (and a publishing platform) founded in 1967. Within a decade, it became an indispensable point of reference for artists, critics, collectors, galleries, and institutions. In 2020, Flash Art became a quarterly publication, at the same time increasing its trim size and updating its graphic identity. The magazine offers a fresh perspective on the visual arts, covering a range of transdisciplinary approaches and fostering in-depth analyses of artist practices and new cultural directions. Today, Flash Art remains required reading for all who navigate the international art scene.
Flash Art is known for it covers featuring artists who subsequently become leading figures in the art world. The magazine includes photoshoots, productions, critical essays, monographic profiles, conversations with emerging and established artists, and a range of ongoing and thematic columns that change every few years. The long history of the magazine is also highlighted by pivotal texts from the archive that are included in the publication time to time. Finally, every issue offers a highly curated selection of the best institutional exhibitions on the global scene.
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