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X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly is launching its Summer 2016 issue with a talk by cover artist Mark Hagen at Los Angeles’ Artbook at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel on July 17.

The event is “a toast” of the summer issue of X-TRA and includes discussion with LA-based artist Hagen about his Artist’s Project in the issue with Aaron Moulton, curator at Gagosian Gallery.

A new Artist Edition by Mark Hagen for X-TRA will be launched, refreshments served, and the galleries at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel will be open.

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Mark Hagen @ Artbook at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, Jul 17

Mark Hagen, ‘Mr. Nude Galaxy’ (2015). Acrylic through burlap, artist frame (titanium adonized with Diet Coke). Courtesy the artist and Malborough Chelsea, New York.

X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly is launching its Spring 2016 issue with a screening and discussion at LA’s Maccarone, on April 23.

The event will include a screening of London and Berlin-based artist Cécile B. Evans‘ ‘Hyperlinks or It Didn’t Happen’ (2014) video work, along with LA writer, teacher and X-TRA editorial board member Leslie Dick speaking on Sarah Charlesworth‘s 1980 photo series ‘Stills’. Dick will then be joined in conversation with LA-based artist and writer Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal, moderated by Brica Wilcox.

Both Charlesworth and Evans’ works address ideas of the image, life and death; where the former explores the role of the image-maker in her six-and-a-half foot tall images of people plunging to their demise. The latter’s video piece contemplates data after dying through its posthumous avatar-narrator resembling the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

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X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly

X-TRA Summer issue launch @ Artbook at HWS, Jul 17

X-TRA Spring issue launch @ Maccarone LA, Apr 23