Fashion designer Rei Kawakubo's solo show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; interview with
William Pope.L on the occasion of his sound installation/performance at Documenta 14; Lindsay Lohan as a cultural phenomenon; interview with Pier Paolo Calzolari; the enigmatic art of
Rodrigo Hernández; the
choreography of Ligia Lewis; the
filmmaking of Park Chan-kyong; exhibition reviews.
Having founded her label Comme des Garçons in 1969, Rei Kawakubo is only the second living designer (after Yves Saint Laurent) to be honored with a solo show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. According to Jeremy Lewis, “What makes [her] clothes radical is that although they are not always recognizable as clothes, they were always meant to be worn.” Kawakubo's deconstructed style—raw and cerebral—seems to take clothing outside of itself and to reposition it in a contemporary space nonetheless rooted within her own
Japanese cultural tradition. She is the cover artist for this Summer 2017 edition.
A season marked by global political uncertainty has foregrounded artist Pope.L's long concern with just that: uncertainty, unknowability, misrecognition. In
Whispering Campaign at Documenta 14, a fragmentary narrative is diffused throughout Athens twenty-four hours a day—as it will throughout Kassel—via city-wide speakers and wandering, whispering performers. In his conversation with Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Pope.L relates how he sees “
language as a means of duration, and time as a way of making meaning.”
Flash Art #315 comes with two different covers (Rei Kawakubo and Pier Paolo Calzolari), distributed randomly.
Flash Art is an international quarterly magazine and
publishing platform dedicated to thinking about contemporary art, exploring the evolving cultural landscape through the work of leading artists, writers, curators and others.
One of Europe's oldest art magazines,
Flash Art was founded in Rome in 1967, before relocating to Milan in 1971, and was originally bilingual, published in both Italian and English. In 1978 two separate editions were launched:
Flash Art International and
Flash Art Italia. Today the magazine remains one of the most recognizable and widely read publications of its kind, and is distributed in 87 countries.
