|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Interview with Molly Crabapple
by Ana Finel Honigman
2012-07-15
Posted
7/15/12
London/New York, July 2012: Molly Crabapple is an artistic Molotov cupcake. Both she and her art first appear sweet and delightful as decadent confections but they are each subversively explosive. Her intricate illustrations resurrect the saucy, surreal exuberance of Toulouse-Lautrec’s dancehall drawings, Bonnie MacLean’s psychedelic posters mixed with a Busby Berkeley number. At the same time, her mesmerizing material is loaded with political commentary, literary references and personal significan... [more]
|
Interview with Tang Yongxiang
by Iona Whittaker
2012-07-08
Posted
7/8/12
Beijing, June 2012 - “Hide” is the first solo exhibition by Tang Yongxiang. On show at Beijing’s Hemuse Gallery are a series of striking paintings in an unreal vein. Their blue hues and layered compositions featuring everyday subjects are compelling – fragments subtracted and re-presented from life in a mode not of concrete perception, but from a perspective more eclectic and conceptual. The lively pictorial relationships Tang creates speak of the artist’s wish for his practice nev... [more]
|
It Never Really Goes Away: An Interview with Daniel Clowes
by Christina Catherine Martinez
2012-07-01
Posted
7/1/12
San Francisco, June 2012: "Is that a comic book you're reading?"
I'm sitting on an AC Transit bus in Oakland, reading a collection of Daniel Clowes' early short-story comics. I nod at the elderly gentleman and he seems pleased. "Good for you!" he says, "what kind of comic is it?" I look down. The panel I happen to be reading at the moment depicts a baseball player holding his own giant dick in lieu of a bat, part of a larger strip about the sublimated, homoerotic ritualism of professiona... [more]
|
Interview with Heather Hart
by Lori Zimmer
2012-06-23
Posted
6/23/12
New York, June 2012: The Period Rooms and reconstructed Schenk House at the Brooklyn Museum invite visitors to glimpse a slice of history -- but only as close as the heavy glass partitions allow. One floor above, The Eastern Oracle appears like a continuation of the historic Schenk House, a rooftop peeking through the rotunda floor. Only this structure is different from the floors below. Rather than staring inside with nose pressed to the glass, Brooklyn artist Heather Hart invites visitors to not... [more]
|
Interview with Matthew Darbyshire
by James Thompson
2012-06-16
Posted
6/16/12
Paris, Jun. 2012: I met Matt Darbyshire at the opening of his first solo show in France. As an artist whose work shows not only a formal sculptural sensibility but also defies easy categorisation, his combinations of objects retain a delicious ambiguity. It's not simply critical or aesthetic but also combines the quotidian and the iconic in a way that brings out both the tackiness and the poetry of the things we find ourselves surrounded by. It is many things at the same time, and as such it's no... [more]
|
The Universe and Other Dog Stars: An "Interview" with Dana DeGiulio
by Courtney R. Thompson
2012-06-03
Posted
6/3/12
Chicago, Jun 2012: I have been reading a lot of artist interviews as of late. The construction of call and response can be meaningful, but more often than not, I am drawn to the intangible. I read Italian art critic Achille Bonito Olivia’s Encyclopaedia of the Word: artist dialogues, 1968-2008. Reading his interviews with endless artists in succession was exhausting and revealed the idiosyncrasies of time and place. Most conversations were mere pages, and I thoroughly enjoyed Google’s inabi... [more]
|
Interview with Rachel Lin Weaver
by Natalie Hegert
2012-05-27
Posted
5/27/12
Bloomington, IN, May 2012: In a small room, a table and one chair. A video projection opposite the chair, depicts a dark mountain, snow falling. Placing your hands on the table you hear, somewhere deep in your bones, the groans, creaks, and rumblings of a glacial landscape, while elsewhere you hear voices. An overhead light over the table recalls the scene of an interrogation, but the vibrations of the table simultaneously evoke the scene of a séance, bringing back the spirits of the dead.
Tra... [more]
|
Interview with Felix Kiessling
by Devon Caranicas
2012-05-20
Posted
5/20/12
Berlin, May 2012 - The content of Felix Kiessling's work is monumental. In an ongoing exploration into the authenticity of perception, scale and physical reality, Kiessling navigates these weighty topics with a distinct reductive aesthetic. Utilizing controlled installations, documented land interactions and sculpture, the Berlin-based artist produces elegantly succinct works to portray the conceptual notions that drive him.
One such example of this is Der Vektor (The Vektor), an ongoing piece t... [more]
|
Interview with Hu Xiangqian
by Robin Peckham
2012-05-13
Posted
5/13/12
Hong Kong, May 2012: On the evening of Friday 18 May 2012, Beijing-based young artist Hu Xiangqian will serenade guests on a yacht trip. Something of a legend in Chinese art circles, the content of his performances and other work is always hotly debated: Hu is probably best known for a video in which he tans himself for weeks on end in an attempt to make his skin the same color as that of his African immigrant friends, although he is also equally loved for an oneiric short video in which the little gr... [more]
|
Emotional Marathon. An interview with Guido van der Werve.
by Nicola Bozzi
2012-05-06
Posted
5/6/12
Amsterdam, Apr. 2012 - I've liked Guido van der Werve's work since I saw his solo show at Galerie Juliette Jongma, Emotional Poverty (you can read the article here). I might have caught a glimpse of one of his videos before, but that was the first time I had the chance to actually delve into his poetics, to get a feel of how personal and yet simply engaging his art is. He works mainly between Amsterdam and Finland, even though (as we were exchanging e-mails for this interview) he travels to o... [more]
|
Interview with Angela Liosi
by Ana Finel Honigman
2012-04-22
Posted
4/22/12
Berlin, Apr. 2012: Angela Liosi applies her creative curiosity to unearthing the passionate potential in banal settings. Like a sharp crime writer, Lios can reveal dark depth in everyday settings.
Liosi’s 9 Scenes of Ordinary Murders series consists of a series of matchbook-sized murder scenes made from architectural model materials and red nail polish. Set in different domestic or cultured environments, these sculptures initially appear as genteel dioramas until their true narrative emerges.... [more]
|
Interview with Davis Rhodes
by Andrea Alessi
2012-04-15
Posted
4/15/12
Brussels, Apr. 2012: There is a tendency to anthropomorphize the larger-than-life entities that are New York-based artist Davis Rhodes’ paintings. His four-by-eight-foot foamcore panels lean against the wall or stand precariously on an arced edge, given unsolid footing by their warped, paint-saturated bodies. They (literally) drip with agency, their fragile materiality asserting its presence in the gallery and demanding an encounter.
They can be obstinate, confrontational. While Rhodes’ ear... [more]
|
Interview with Mathieu Mercier
by Peter Dobey
2012-04-08
Posted
4/8/12
Paris, Apr. 2012: The works of Mathieu Mercier walk a curious line between art and consumer object, often using mass-produced products as medium. By inhabiting this critical intersection, his pieces question the essence and cultural status of the art object in its ubiquitous relationship with consumer society and the legacy of modernism. With his show at Le Crédac coming down in less than a week, I asked Mercier some questions about the ontological nature of his work, and how it fits into the lin... [more]
|
Interview with INSA
by Charlotte Jansen
2012-04-01
Posted
4/1/12
London, Mar. 2012 - There are many facets to INSA. As an artist, his work polarizes audiences. His latest installation project that opened for one night only on the 29 March in East London – queues of fans lined up in the spring sunshine, hoping to be one of the first fifty guests through the door to pick up a free limited edition print – was no less divisive or provocative than previous works.
Inside the installation, Self Reflection is Greater Than Self Projection, a heady maelstrom of spheres reflected a distorted,... [more]
|
THINK OF YOURSELF AS A LINK: A Conversation With Georgia Sagri
by Hannah Daly
2012-03-25
Posted
3/25/12
New York, Mar. 2012 - “Quite recently I realized that in NY I learn more of how to maintain a sense of togetherness with friends and colleagues and not to become a selfish vampire which is so easy in a metropolis like NY,” says 2012 Whitney Biennial artist Georgia Sagri. The question of urban life, particularly here in New York seemed an urgent context for our conversation. Born in Athens, Sagri has resided in New York for the past six years. In the back and forth that led to our conversation,... [more]
|
Interview with Cécile B. Evans
by Collin James Munn
2012-03-19
Posted
3/19/12
Berlin, Mar. 2012 - I first met Cécile last December in Miami, when she presented her collaborative project Art By Telephone with Rebecca Lamarche Vadel at the Delano Hotel. Since then, I have seen her many more times in Berlin, where she is based, and have had the pleasure of following her work for over a year now. Cécile has had an ever increasing amount of exhibitions in a multitude of mediums from sculpture to perfomative lectures throughout Europe and the United States, and is currently... [more]
|
|
|
|
|
|
add to mylist
forward by email
print this page
subscribe
