Midnight in the Kant Hotel is an absorbing account of contemporary
art, composed over twenty years. The essays revisit the same
artists as they develop, following them in time, changing
perspectives as he, and they, develop. Mengham is a significant
curator, organising exhibitions: 'There is no more productive
engagement with someone else's artworks than finding the right way
to show it, since artworks are always direct statements or
questions about articulations of space, and the curator's job
obviously is to enhance such questions and statements.' This
discipline gives the writer a series of uniquely privileged
perspectives, touching, lifting, moving and re-moving the objects:
'nothing compares to living with art'. The book opens with themes:
what is domestic space? what does the atrocity exhibition tell us?
what is the refugee aesthetic? Essays on particular artists follow,
including Marc Atkins, Stephen Chambers, Jake and Dinos Chapman,
Tony Cragg, Antony Gormley, Damien Hirst, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov,
Anselm Kiefer, Laura Owens, Doris Salcedo, Agnes Thurnauer, Koen
Vanmechelen and Alison Wilding. Always, he is in dialogue with the
work, rather than with the artist.
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