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Art World

7 Jan 2009

Art World is a stylish bi-monthly magazine that celebrates the best in contemporary art in an intelligent and accessible way, with contributors such as Will Self, Michel Houellebecq, Jeanette Winterson and Germaine Greer. Read on for a special subscription offer and don't miss the exclusive interview with the Editor at Large, Paul Carey-Kent.

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Published six times a year, each highly illustrated issue is packed with insightful artist interviews, ranging from world-famous names to promising newcomers. In addition you'll find invaluable exhibition news, book and exhibition reviews, thought-provoking essays, gallery profiles and Art World's unique New Work section, highlighting new work from 10 very different artists.

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Exclusive interview with Editor at Large, Paul Carey-Kent

We found out from Paul Carey-Kent what contemporary art he has got his eye on in 2009 plus more on the uniqueness of the magazine...

Portrait of Paul Carey-Kent by Luzia Lippert
Courtesy of Art World

What makes Art World different from other art magazines?

We feature lots of interesting recent work, use enough big illustrations to give those new to the work a fair feel for it, and then let the artist talk about their work directly. We also aim at clear design, a newsy but intelligent approach, a fair sprinkling of quirky material such as picture essays, and a high ratio of content to advertising. By and large other magazines have fewer artists, fewer pictures, more mediation and theory, more reviews of stuff they don't like and lots of adverts - all of which can be fine, but is a different tack.

Which art commentators are you most intrigued by?

I like interesting views, and don't much mind if they contradict each other or whether or not they are from 'art commentators' as such. Germaine Greer, Will Self, Sarah Kent and Ossian Ward have written very well for Art World. I also like Richard Dorment in the Telegraph, Laura Cumming in the Observer and Tom Lubbock in the Independent (especially his one page analysis of a single picture every Friday). Plus Jennifer Thatcher, and Barry Schwabsky, who crop up round and about, and some artists also write: in the excellent painting magazine Turps Banana, for instance. Matthew Collings is good when he likes something, and good fun (though a little predictable) when he doesn't - which is of course most of the time so far as contemporary production goes! The most persuasive catalogue essay I've read recently was Michael Fried's on Anri Sala's current retrospective in America. Though I thought that 2008's best catalogue - with arguably the best show - was for Colour Chart at MoMA, New York.

Which artists have you currently got your eye on?

There are various ways of answering that. An easy option would be to list those I'm currently in the process of interviewing for Art World: Gordon Cheung, Andre Butzer, Anri Sala again (well, he is my favourite video artist) and Artists Anonymous. Another would be to say I'd want to keep up with say Richter, Johns, Nauman, Fischli & Weiss and Rauch. But who wouldn't?

There again Guillermo Kuitca, Bernard Frize and Peter Coffin are well known artists whose constant invention I look forward to, but who don't I think have quite the profile they deserve in Britain. Or Nogah Engler, Cyprien Gaillard and Cory Arcangel are three very different up and coming young artists I rate highly. Else I could stick to older British artists who should be more in fashion: David Hepher, Eric Bainbridge, Phyllida Barlow, Colin Crumplin. Or abstract painters whose work I happen to own - so naturally I'd like to see the creamy geometries of German Richard Schur, Jane Harris's ellipses, Jonathan Parsons' deconstructions of picture-making and Jane Bustin's elegant near-nothings do well.

Or finally young artists to look out for, like Ryan Mosley's paintings, Jodie Carey's sculptural installations and Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadon's rhythm and soil constructions - they were among the most interesting student exhibits of 2008 and he has a first solo show at Gallery Primo Alonso in London in February.

I could go on, I probably have...

What art exhibitions/events in 2009 are you most looking forward to?

Too many to mention, not to mention the many more I don't know about yet!

For example it will be interesting to see how the Baltic changes under new Director Godfrey Worsdale. Polly Apfelbaum at Milton Keynes Gallery (Feb -March) and rising French star Raphaël Zarka at Oxford (Feb-March) will be worth a trip. Armando Andrade Tudela (Ikon, Birmingham) is a Peruvian who has impressed me.

To pluck some plums from London's pie: I'm leaving it till January to judge China (Saatchi's new space) vs India (the Serpentine and the admirable Aicon Gallery) - if I expect India to 'win', that may only be because Saatchi isn't showing my favourite Chinese artists. Very specifically, I'll be at the retrospective screening of AK Dolven's video work at the Royal Academy on 15 Jan. Then highlights will include Gerhard Richter at the National Portrait Gallery (March-May), Annette Messager and Ed Ruscha at the Hayward (spring and autumn) and the Tate's fourth Triennial exhibition, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud (from Feb). Plus in the commercial sector everything at the rather disparate galleries Gagosian, Albion, Hales, Union, Seventeen, Laure Genillard, Bischoff/Weiss and Nettie Horn will be interesting - it always is.

More sequentially I would mention Tala Madani's paintings at Pilar Corrias's elegant new space (Feb); wide-ranging Bazilian Cinthia Marcelle at Spovieri Progetti (March); a new ten screen installation by Kutluğ Ataman at Thomas Dane (April); fresh-to-British-audiences Dutch sculptors Heringa and Van Kalsbeek at Vegas (May); and Nicola Tyson at Sadie Coles over the summer. Two group shows I have a good feeling about are 'Voodoo' at Riflemaker in February and 'Truth is a Sausage' at DomoBaal in October.

Then Boo Ritson, who is a favourite of mine and was on the cover of Art World's first issue, will open in the autumn at a new gallery in Fitzrovia run by former David Risley director Poppy Sebire. David himself is relocating to Denmark, talking of which the full Max Ernst survey at Louisiana's magnificent Museum of Modern Art will provide a temptation to travel...

Internationally, though, the embarrassment of riches tends to become absurd. I don't plan to miss out on the usual Basle, Venice and New York circuit (the most alluring 'Briton abroad show' is perhaps Tacita Dean at Marian Goodman in New York in April), but Paris in the springtime is an easy to reach and now somewhat underrated art destination. Heavyweight galleries such as Emmanuel Perrotin, Thaddeus Ropac, Chantal Crousel and Yvon Lambert always have strong programmes, and there are plenty of excellent smaller players, too - my favourites include Chez Valentin, Cosmic and Praz-Delavallade. Try to go when the great COBRA Asger Jorn has a retrospective at the Pompidou (11 Feb - 11 May).

Hmmm... I see why some people ask me if I'd like to give up the day job!!