This issue of
Flash Art, with essays by
Dorothea von Hantelmann and Isobel Harbison, dedicates sixteen-pages dossier to the work of Rebecca Horn, a pivotal figure of
performative art, and develops a series of reflections on a younger generation of contemporary artists who are now using their bodies or their personas as agents in an attempt to re-cognize themselves in a present that increasingly rewards the loss of self-consciousness.
This season has seen a renewed and overwhelming interest in works engaging corporality, gesture, theatricality, or dance—works that in the visual arts we tend to group under the rubric “performance.” When we think of a work of art, we always feel a reflexive need to identify its medium, perhaps due to our ekphrastic or merely logistical nature, or more likely to assure ourselves that we have a label for everything.
Today, much of the legacy under the term performative be it work in the service of an ontological quandary, a dialogue with fashion, a political protest, a spiritual search, or an interrogation of form itself.
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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Flash Art Volumes.
