Dessislava Dimova and Pierre Bismuth Photo: David Velasco www.artforum.com/diary
Pierre Bismuth tackles the challenges of contemporary art by addressing the representation and the reception of a work of art; by playing on the modalities and power of language and image; and by reappropriating art history and modern cultural references, from fashion to cinema. In doing so, he incorporates all artistic mediums available, from origami and collage to screenwriting and art installations. Bismuth has exhibited his works extensively throughout Europe, and North America. He earned an Academy Award in 2005 for co-authoring the screenplay Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Dessislava Dimova and Pierre Bismuth Photo: David Velasco www.artforum.com/diary
Her work focuses on the possibility of the social existence and recognition of the artist without offering any art production as such. Dessislava Dimova is a PhD fellow at the Institute of Art Studies in Sofia with a thesis on Bulgarian art after 1989. She has published numerous essays on contemporary art and culture, including The Cultural Learnings of Ivan Moudov, catalogue of the Bulgarian Pavilion at the Venice Biennial, 2007; Supernaturalism in Postcommunist Bulgaria, The Weird but True Book, 2005. She is currently curating The Spam Show, an email project that risks to be never seen, discarded by spam filters.
