Bob Nickas' writings.
Robert Nickas is a critic, freelance curator, and editor of the Index magazine (New York). He is also one of the free spirits who were nurtured by the libertarian punk slogan "do it yourself". In this collection, covering twenty years of activity, Nickas combines humour with intellectual rigor, as well as a reliable historical memory to broach works of personalities as diverse as
Maurizio Cattelan, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Cady Noland,
John Miller, Haim Steinbach or Andy Warhol, by way of David Cronenberg, Melvins, Père Ubu and numerous others, also slipping in untimely observations on the alleged death of painting, the "Golden 80s" of New York art world, and the role of the
exhibition curator.
Working independently, Robert Nickas has realized more than forty exhibitions for galleries and museums since 1984. He recently co-curated the
Biennale of Lyon in France (with the
Consortium team), is an editor of
Artforum, and a Guest Curator at P.S.1 in New York.
His writings and interviews have appeared in
Afterall and
Sound Collector, as well as in numerous catalogues and monographs - Felix Gonzalez-Torres,
On Kawara,
Olivier Mosset, Cady Noland,
Andy Wharol.
