August 20, 2008

SITE Santa Fe

Every two years, Santa Fe's contemporary art scene welcomes a host of international voices that reverberates throughout the Southwest. For SITE Santa Fe's seventh biennial, fittingly titled Lucky Number Seven, curator Lance Fung collaborated with a team of international art professionals to commission site-specific works from artists including Austria's Ricarda Denzer, Hiroshi Fuji of Japan, and French duo Fabien Giraud and Raphaël Siboni. Artkrush editor Paul Laster talks to conceptual artist and biennial contributor Ahmet Ögüt about his automotive themes and social interventions, and we investigate Lucky artist Nadine Robinson's engaging sound and light installations. Video interviews with SITE's director and artists from VernissageTV fill out our coverage, with select footage available in our image gallery. Finally, in our reviews section, we highlight Philip Taaffe's retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Julian Opie's first major solo show in Asia, and Street Art on a facade of London's Tate Modern.