June 25, 2008

Installation Art

Over the last three decades, installation art has taken a firm hold on the world of contemporary art. In this issue of Artkrush, we survey the artists and collectives who continue to pioneer the genre. Florian Slotawa straps together scavenged furniture and fixtures to form sculptural assemblages; David Byrne creates a clamorous architectural instrument with Playing the Building; and Goshka Maçuga, who's shortlisted for this year's Turner Prize, constructs elaborate works of appropriation. Artkrush editor Paul Laster talks to Olafur Eliasson about his doubleheader shows at MoMA and P.S.1 and his extraordinary New York City Waterfalls. For your next trip to the bookstore, we recommend a new monograph on Rirkrit Tiravanija's socially interactive projects, and, in the galleries, we take a look at Tom Friedman's monstrous sculpture and name-brand minimalism at London's Gagosian Gallery and Cho Duck Hyun's homage to two venerable Korean leading ladies at Seoul's Kukje Gallery.