The Wind Blows, 2016, pigment print, 25.5 × 19 inches. All images courtesy of the artist.
Journey, 2016, pigment print, 17.75 × 17.75 inches.
Afterwards, 2016, pigment print, 34 × 23.25 inches.
Puppeteer, 2016, pigment print, 20.5 × 14 inches.
Out of Sight, 2015, pigment print, 26.75 × 18 inches.
Memory Sequence, 2014, pigment print, 27.25 × 18.25 inches.
Disappearing on White I, 2015, pigment print, 25 × 16.25 inches.
Ville Kumpulainen is a photographer living and working in Helsinki, Finland. In his new book, Out of Sight (Hatje Cantz, 2017), Kumpulainen manipulates archival images to solidify the tenuous connection between present and past, attempting to fill the gaps left between himself and his history.
In advance of the next installment of his extensive history of New York City, Wallace expounds on the pivotal early years of the twentieth century.
“I’m interested in subterranean culture that says ‘I will trick you’ to official culture, ‘I will play you.’”
Kassab Bachi, one of the most prolific Arab painters, has never exhibited in the Arts Club of Chicago. Yet three of his drawings were found on the backs of three framed artworks in the club’s storage.
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Featuring interviews with LaToya Ruby Frazier and Fred Moten, Sergio De La Pava, Nina Hoss, Barbara Hammer, Joseph Keckler, Lydia Ourahmane, Kaneza Schaal, Hank Willis Thomas and Kambui Olujimi, and Summer Wheat.
Work that is just about the technical or conceptual, personal or political, is fine; it meets the world with what’s in fashion. But there’s something else bordering on magic, that brings an artwork home, makes it land and resonate. You can’t really teach that so much as conjure it.
Kara Walker
