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Flash Art " is a bimonthly magazine focusing oncontemporary art . It was founded in1967 by Italian publisher and art criticGiancarlo Politi . The magazine has been based inMilan ,Italy , for 40 years, with editorial desks in New York andLondon . Originally a bilingual publication, it was split in two separate editions, "Flash Art Italia" (in Italian) and "Flash Art International" (in English), in1978 . It also publishesCzech andSlovak editions.It has been described as "the confident, international journal of
Europe an andNorth America ncontemporary art , and features interesting viewpoints on American art from a European perspective." [Tony Stankus, "Journals of the Century",Haworth Press , 2002, p125. ISBN 0789011344]Politi, besides the two magazines, publishes different books and catalogues, including "Art Diary International", a directory that lists addresses and phone numbers of
artist s, critics, galleries, andmuseum s.History
"Flash Art" extensively covered the
Arte Povera artists in the 1960s, before they became known in the English speaking world. [Suzaan Boettger, "Earthworks: Art and the Landscape of the Sixties",University of California Press , 2002, p261. ISBN 0520241169]In 1993, "Flash Art" curated "Emergency" at the Aperto of the
Venice Biennale . [Malcolm Miles and Tim Hall, "Interventions",Intellect Books , 2005, p42. ISBN 1841501182] Also in 1993,Giancarlo Politi opened theTrevi Flash Art Museum in his hometown,Trevi . He currently edits the magazine with his wife and fellow art critic Helena Kontova.The magazine first published or dedicated the first cover to artists such as
Jeff Koons ,Damien Hirst ,Maurizio Cattelan ,Vanessa Beecroft , Francesco Vezzoli, Gabriel Orozco, Matthias Weischer, Eberhardt Havekost,Pipilotti Rist ,Vito Acconci ,Marina Abramovic , Shirin Neshat, Rikrit Tiravanija,John Currin , Martin Creed,Matthew Barney , Cady Noland, Rudolf Stingel,Jonathan Meese , Annette Messager,Sophie Calle , Thomas Scheibitz, Matthew Ritchie, David Salle, Sherrie Levine,Cindy Sherman .Contributors have included Bernard Blistene,
Nicolas Bourriaud , Jerome Sans, Eric Troncy, Benjamin Weil, Francesco Bonami, Massimiliano Gioni,Hans Ulrich Obrist , Hou Hanru, Yuko Hasegawa, Francesco Manacorda, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Roberto Pinto,Jens Hoffmann ,Rosa Martinez ,Octavio Zaya ,Harald Szeemann , Achille Bonito Oliva,Germano Celant , Michele Robecchi, Klaus Biesenbach, Carlos Basualdo, Barry Schwabsky, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Barbara Casavecchia, Andrea Bellini.References
External links
* [http://www.flashartonline.com/ Flash Art website]
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