Artpaper. Issue #6

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INTERVIEW The playful paradox of SJ Fuerst’s hyperreal superwomen

REVIEW Female modernist artists see the light of day in Vienna

COMMEN T Konrad Buhagiar on art, politics, beauty and satire

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“Yet, isn’t that the sheer beauty of public art? It’s a ‘phenomenon’, whereby an artwork or monument, irrespective of size, shape or colour, is placed in a strategic hard-toignore space, demanding some form of public engagement – positive or negative.” Opinion pg.11

Sèvres Goliathus Scarabaeidae, Gilcée print on paper, by Magnus Gjoen

The cuts endure, as does the unknown

T NEWS: Tracy Emin at the White Cube DESIGN: The Bauhaus centenary and the grand tour of OPINION: Women in art in Malta ART NEWS: Senegalese art makes a global splash Modernism BOOKS: The environment in comic form INTERVIEW: Ritty Tacsum’s mysterious world REVIEW: Pierre Bonnard, colour and life ART NEWS: Mapplethorpe exhibition in Naples

#beinspired

he work of Lucio Fontana enjoys the same sensorial acknowledgement as that of a song heard in passing that stops you short in your tracks and the melody of which unquestionably sparks memory: you know it, but you’re not precisely clear about who it’s by, where you first encountered it or why you really, really like it. >> Pg.44

Lucio Fontana, ‘Neon Structure for the Ninth Milan Triennial’, 1951/2019, Glass tube and neon, Reconstruction authorised by Fondazione Lucio Fontana

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