SUMMARY Land scape CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW Marie Rioux 4 lives and works in Québec Oleh Lavrii 28 lives and works in Poland Mitra Tashakori 46 Joe O’Brien lives and works in Iran Adrian Flaherty 74 lives and works in the United Kingdom Florian Nörl 100 lives and works in Linz, Austria Brian McPartlon 118 elisELIS Donna Bassin Tanya Momi lives and works in the United States Ukraine USA USA elisELIS 138 Elis is a multi(inter)disciplinary Kyiv Donna Bassin is a photo-based I create a foundation on which she freelance artist-wonderer, psycho artist, filmmaker, clinical applies new layers of pictorial muse and visual philosopher. She psychologist, professor, and materials occasionally resembling the lives and works in the United Kingdom investigates the culture and mentality published author who was born experiences of informel, yet complex, of collage, the other side of mistakes in Brooklyn and now living in New dynamic and frequently tumultuous and imperfections, exploring the body Jersey. The death of her younger processes, inspired by some inner and physicality and the world around sister when she was ten years old Donna Bassin 168 her through performance, installation, reasons of my nature, a feeling of text, collage, photography and video. motivated and shaped her clinical absolute domination of visual is born. She prefers to stay on the verge of and art practice. Her work on At first sight it might seem that I give lives and works in the United States rawness and marginal beauty creating long-term projects responds to priority to a typically modernistic her own dystopian magic. Elis’s distressing aspects of presentation based on the collage artworks are very performative contemporary life, such as the technique. However, if that process is physical pieces, they are full of aftermath of September 11, Tanya Momi psychological stories and if looked present here it is understood in quite 212 closer dynamic, all processes are coming home after the war, a different sense. My college is a visible, while her performances- racism, social injustice, and, most different visual game: it is a lives and works in the United States happenings are full of collaged actions recently, the destruction of the combination (synthesis?) of practically and concepts. Elis’ art practice is as environment. Those pursuits all known disciplines of visual art. My much therapeutic and personal as it is have resulted in two awarding paintings are some kind of art social, and intended for an attentive documentaries, two solo modern (at times melancholic) viewer. labyrinths, which we are conquering Special thanks to Miya Ando, Juerg Luedi, Urte Beyer, Beth Her Soviet origins and artistic museum exhibitions, publications with the sense of great concern for Krensky, Rudiger Fischer, Lisa Birke, Haylee Lenkey, Martin philosophy (as well as metamodern in various art and culture our own future, for what is waiting for Gantman, Ariane Littman, Max Epstein, Nicolas Vionnet, Sapir views) prompt the artist to question periodicals, public installations, us in the next century – but through Kesem Leary, Greg Condon, Jasper Van Loon, Alexandre Dang, and challenge the modern book covers, inclusion in private those same labyrinths we’re going understanding of herself, culture and and museum collections, a with the sense of joy, for living in age Christian Gastaldi, Larry Cwik, Michael Nelson, Dana Taylor, identity. Elis’s art practice is about billboard in Brooklyn, and Michael Sweeney, Colette Hosmer, Melissa Moffat, Marinda truth and freedom, about so rich with different events and imperfection and the passage of time, participation with other artists in experiences that there was something Scaramanga and Artemis Herber. about life and death. curated group shows. for us to leave in the mud behind us! Special Issue