Flash Art / 351

FLASH ART #351 SUMMER 2025 "GROTESQUE FRICTIONALISM"

 

COVERS → ◯ Karla Kaplun photographed by Luis Corzo in Mexico City, May 2025, wearing Stone Island and Kuboraum. Courtesy of the artist and Flash Art. ◯ Daiga Grantina photographed by Benedict Brink in her studio in Souppes-sur-Loing, May 2025, wearing Paloma Wool. Courtesy of the artist and Flash Art. ◯ Alexandra Metcalf photographed by Oscar Foster-Kane at The Perimeter, London, May 2025, wearing Steve O Smith. Courtesy of the artist and Flash Art.

 

IN QUESTO NUMERO →

◯ Letter from the Editor ◯ Cover Story The Device of Eternal Motion. Karla Kaplun in Conversation with Caroline Elbaor photographed by Luis Corzo. ◯ Cover Story Fog Work. Daiga Grantina in Conversation with Amy Jones photographed by Benedict Brink. ◯ Cover Story Compose Yourself. Alexandra Metcalf by Kyla McDonald photographed by Oscar Foster-Kane ◯ Visual Essay The Familiar Strange by Phung-Tien Phan. Intro by Eli Bittencourt ◯ Focus On ZURICH: Peripheral Presence by Tibor Bielicky and Ellena Ehrl ◯ Never Let Go. Sidsel Meneiche Hansen by Bianca Stoppani ◯ UNPACK/ REVEAL/UNLEASH The Conditions that Shape. Sophie Friedman-Pappas by Margaret Kross ◯ Studio Scene In Medias Res. Sofia Defino Leiby by Gabriela Acha photographed by Avventuroso ◯ Membrane As Leger. Lyric Shen by Leo Cocar ◯ The Curist Institut Funder Bakke, Silkeborg Andreas Führer in Conversation with Fafaya Mogensen ◯ Critic Dispatch Performing the Grotesque by P. Eldridge ◯ ARCHIVE Cecily Brown; Kiki Smith; Pipilotti Rist ◯ Mean Time Between Fallure. Racheal Crowther in Conversation with Ben Broome ◯ New World Order. Agnieszka Polska in Conversation with Tosia Leniarska ◯ Loop: Substance and Circumstance. Olga Balema by Eleanor Ivory Weber

 

REVIEWS → ◯ “The Gatherers” MoMA PS1, New York, by Qingyuan Deng ◯ “RUNNING UP THE HILLS” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, by Gracie Hadland ◯ Nora Turato “pool7” ICA – Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, by Sonja Teszler ◯ Klára Hosnedlová “embrace” Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, by Martin Herbert ◯ “Corps at âmes” Bourse de Commerce, Paris, by Hugo Bausch Belbachir ◯ “STEADYSTATE” Zero…, Milan, by Michela Ceruti ◯ “Painting After Painting” S.M.A.K., Ghent, by Frank Wasser

 

___

 

Flash Art is an international quarterly magazine and publishing platform dedicated to contemporary art, exploring developments in the cultural landscape through the work of artists, writers, curators and various personalities from the art world. One of the oldest art magazines in Europe, Flash Art was founded in Rome in 1967 by the Italian art critic and publisher Giancarlo Politi, before moving to Milan in 1971. Originally published in Italian and English, the magazine was split into two publications in 1978 (Flash Art Italia and Flash Art International). Distributed worldwide, the magazine is one of the most widely read in its field and has become a benchmark in its field.