Clayton Press

“Swissness” isn’t in most English dictionaries, but its meaning is instantly clear. It is holey cheese and cow-strewn meadows, snowy peaks and punctual trains. Beyond those (fairly accurate) clichés, Swissness perfectly encapsulates the land of milk and money, a place where attention to detail is a national pastime. And that is Switzerland in a nutshell, preferably one coated in chocolate.” Diccon Bewes, Raconteur.net Valentin Carron. The Great Sharing, 2019. Iron, enamel paint.

“One of the traps of contemporary art is that it remains almost perpetually in a recognizable present, or just-past. For all their archaeologies of the modern, artists are caught in this institutional matrix of perpetual nowness. Their work conforms precisely through estrangement, as familiar as the chance encounter in a gallery of a sheep and a sewing machine on a dissecting table.”  Bob Nickas, ARTFORUM, October 2012. Justin Matherly. Eat yourself fitter, 2019.

“I consider a translated text like a metaphor of my artistic method. I often feel myself like a translator or mediator.” Nikita Seleznev Contemporary art from contemporary Russia is infrequently seen in Western Europe and North America. It is more likely to be “exhibited” on social media. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube have become surrogates for artists, galleries and museums, especially outside of the mainstream. Nikita Seleznev. Object from the project "Karate poetry", 2019.