Summer Issue Cover 2010
Finally, Whitewall’s summer issue is out! And it’s our second annual Performance Issue, focused on a medium that really got some attention this year.
We, of course, have an interview with the woman of the moment and grandmother of performance art, Marina Abramovic (stay tuned, later in the week we’ll post the full, uncut interview and additional photos that didn’t make it in the mag). Then we moved on to Abramovic’s seemingly male counterpart, Chris Burden, who shocked the art world during the seventies with performances like Shoot and Trans-fixed, and who has since moved on to more sculptural work like dropping steel beams from a crane into wet cement.
We also spoke with two goddesses of another kind of performance: Kim Gordon and Patti Smith. Still rock stars, they have both dabbled in the visual arts. Gordon recently released a book of watercolors and Smith’s photographs have been shown by Robert Miller Gallery in New York for years.
Plus, we visit Robert Longo (featured on both covers) in his studio, speak with leading Latin American collector Eugenio López, and enjoy a wild conversation with Tom Sachs. Plus, we did a little performing ourselves in the issue’s pages. We couldn’t let the artists have all the fun, now could we?
Illustration by Guillaume Wolf
Marina Abramovic, portrait and interview by Slava Mogutin
Creative Minds interview with Tom Sachs
Kim Gordon, portrait by Jesse Shadoan, interview by Scott Indrisek
Eugenio Lopez, portrait by Steve Benisty, interview by Katy Donoghue
Robert Longo, portrait by Jesse Shadoan, interview by Scott Indrisek
