JORDAN WOLFSON

 Artwork by Ed Fornieles showing Amalia, Dean and Ed passing through New York on their way to Los Angeles four years ago

Artwork by Ed Fornieles showing Amalia, Dean and Ed passing through New York on their way to Los Angeles four years ago

DEAN KISSICK on what he has learnt from the greatest city in the world

 Photo: Robert Hamacher

Photo: Robert Hamacher

Meeting Jordan Wolfson at Schinkel Pavillon

Jordan Wolfson Real violence, 2017, (Installation view)  Virtual reality headsets, high-definition video, color, Sound; 2:25 min.  2017 Whitney Biennial ( March 17-June 11, 2017).  Collection of the artist; courtesy David Zwirner, New York, and Sadie Coles HQ, London. 

Photograph: Bill Orcutt

This has been a year of disappearing statues, but what will become of all the defaced idols and broken images? Dean Kissick on why iconoclasm is back and what we can do about its aftermath. 

Jordan Wolfson, (Female figure) 2014, 2014
Mixed media
Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York/London
Photo: John Smith

For many visitors, Jordan Wolfson’s robot represents a first contact with the most technologically developed and also most disturbing robot they have ever seen. But can the gallery space do justice to the experience? After all, a robot is only as evil as the world into which it is placed.