Virus art. Viste e interviste dalla rivista Virus Mutationis
Skira
Edited by Alfano Miglietti F.
Milano, 2003; bound, pp. 344, 750 b/w and col. ill., cm 16x24.
(Skira Paperbacks).
series: Skira Paperbacks
ISBN: 88-8491-286-5 - EAN13: 9788884912862
Subject: Essays (Art or Architecture)
Period: 1800-1960 (XIX-XX) Modern Period,1960- Contemporary Period
Places: No Place
Extra: New Media
Languages:
Weight: 1.13 kg
A collection of everything that has created scandal, enthusiasm, excitement and a sense of participation in contemporary art.
Virus Art is a collection of bodies, and events and differences and flights and deserts. The compass with which to find our bearings in an art world that is changing before our very eyes.
From Virus, the most provocative and trail-blazing magazine in the sector, the most prominent artists and personalities in the world of contemporary art. A magazine of contaminations, mutations and relationships that intertwine art, fashion, cinema, music, video and theory with the tensions of this time: from Orlan, Pipilotti Rist, John Armleder, Gilbert & George and Franko B to Lea Vergine, Mimmo Paladino, Louise Bourgeois, Marina Abramovic...
A selection of some of the most significant encounters published in the magazine, testimonies, declarations, news and images that help us to understand what is going on in contemporary art.
In the space of a few years, Virus has become the instrument for a con-fusion of genres, styles, languages, mythologies, bodies, biologies and cultures.
A thermometer to gauge not only what is going on today but also to indicate and predict what will come later, afterward, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow. A mobile lookout post, an observatory, an open and lively laboratory that has prompted discussion, at times scandal, at others controversy, but always vivacity and interest. Keeping faith with its name Virus, it is distributed not so much by circulation as by "propagation," reaching the most interesting positions not just in Europe but also in those parts of the world that are less closely "watched." Over the course of eight years its contributors have multiplied: artists, directors, collectors and theorists have written, advised, suggested, recommended and given substance to those situations of mutation that are incessantly emerging nowadays. And the invaluable and completely new materials that have flowed into the editorial office have made it possible for the magazine to present a series of anticipations, artists and themes that have regularly made their appearance in the pages of more institutional publications months later.