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Interview with Michael Genovese
by Natalie Hegert
2013-01-21
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1/21/13
Los Angeles, Jan. 2013: As I drove up the 5 freeway to meet Michael Genovese, my car radio was tuned to 88.9 FM. Between Anaheim and Norwalk, the radio transmission began to flicker back and forth between the two college stations that share that frequency in Southern California. For a few miles the radio was caught between KUCI and KXLU, between mellow beats and experimental noise. I let it play through, enjoyed the give and take, the struggle.
Michael Genovese, whose solo exhibition Lines and Cracks and Z... [more]
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Interview with Emily Hermant
by Courtney R. Thompson
2013-01-13
Posted
1/13/13
Montréal, Jan. 2013: In his 1970 essay “Some Notes on the Phenomenology of Making” Robert Morris wrote, “I believe there are ‘forms’ to be found within the activity of making as much as within the end products. These are forms of behavior aimed at testing the limits and possibilities involved in that particular interaction between one’s actions and the materials of the environment.” In this statement Morris was reconsidering his artworks of the early 1960s—moving from closed to open... [more]
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Interview with Jesse Harrod
by Beth Capper
2013-01-06
Posted
1/6/13
Chicago, Jan. 2013: “If you’re not a part of the culture, the culture doesn’t know how to talk about you,” said Mierle Laderman Ukeles in a 2010 lecture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Ukeles' statement was intended as an explanation for why her maintenance works from the 1970s (in particular Touch Sanitation, Washing Piece, and her 1969 Manifesto for Maintenance Art) have been virtually ignored in discussions about relational art until recently, but it's also a statement about how... [more]
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Interview with Marcos Chaves
by Charlotte Jansen
2012-12-31
Posted
12/31/12
Rio de Janeiro, Dec. 2012: Marcos Chaves is a globally renowned artist, whose multi-layered conceptual practice–which includes drawings, video, photography, as well as large-scale site-specific projects and installations–has appeared everywhere from Moscow to Melbourne since the 1980s, as well as prolifically inside his native Brazil, where he is a treasured member of the artistic community. Rich with parody, Chaves’ work departs from his observations of modern conventions and appropriate... [more]
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Interview with Klas Eriksson
by Jacquelyn Davis
2012-12-22
Posted
12/22/12
Stockholm, Dec. 2012: Stockholm-based Swedish artist Klas Eriksson (b. 1976) has been incredibly active in Scandinavia, with exhibitions and performances ranging from participating in the Royal Institute of Art's “Performing Recalcitrance” to the Copenhagen Arts Festival to a solo exhibition at Nordin Gallery in Stockholm. He has also participated in several large-scale international exhibitions such as the Bucharest Biennale and the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art. My... [more]
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Game Theory: Michael Rees + Bradley Rubenstein
by Bradley Rubenstein
2012-12-16
Posted
12/16/12
New York, Dec. 2012: Michael Rees is a New York artist. His first New York show at 303 opened in the early 90's. Then, as now, his work displays humor with a reflective conflation of the psychosomatic, the automatic source of language and its programmatic development. He has worked widely developing animation, sculpture, installation and interactive media. As of late his interest in the object grows through collaboration, humor and language examined through a collision of medias. Upcoming pr... [more]
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Interview with Danh Vo
by Joel Kuennen
2012-12-11
Posted
12/11/12
Chicago, Dec. 2012: Danh Vo, a Danish, Vietnamese-born artist living in Berlin, won the Guggenheim Foundation’s Hugo Boss Prize this year. His work combines a nuanced approach to relations existent within the conventions of the art world as well as the relationships that are developed with objects, both personal and foreign, in the negotiation of identity. In short, Vo’s ability to imbue otherwise mundane objects with a delicate, sublime sentimentality is what makes this young artist worth watc... [more]
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A Two-Headed Pigeon: Interview with Chaveli Sifre
by Nicole Rodriguez
2012-12-03
Posted
12/3/12
Berlin / Miami, Dec. 2012 - I spent most of my last summer’s afternoons accepting invitations to buzz about a spacious loft atelier with Berlin-based artist Chaveli Sifre, reviewing and discussing recipes for deadly concoctions—a collection that would make up her new project of perfumes. A recent addition on the scene in Berlin, her practice is an all-encompassing avalanche of ideas that dip into multiple mediums. The result is the fascination with a broad spectrum of concerns that scrutini... [more]
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The Artist is the Genius of Suffering: Interview with Pei Li
by Edward Sanderson
2012-11-25
Posted
11/25/12
Beijing, Nov. 2012: The pursuit of beauty and the artist’s commitment to her practice are parallel concerns for Pei Li, whose solo show closed recently at Beijing’s Platform China space. This young artist holds these pursuits to a high degree of scrutiny and suspicion, regarding beauty and fame as suspect notions that demand a certain cynicism. In a series of complex and sometimes audacious projects, she has grappled with the ideal of the artist and the relation that art has to the presentation o... [more]
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Interview with GAIS
by Charlotte Jansen
2012-11-19
Posted
11/19/12
Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 2012: I’d arranged to meet Gais at 2 pm at his gallery in Rio de Janeiro’s Humaita district. I’d been warned about Carioca time keeping, and not being inclined to punctuality myself, I easily forgave the artist when he arrived at 2.50, all smiles and reddish-bleary eyes. “He drank a lot,” the gallery staff explained, somewhat sheepishly – but in a way that implied this was not an unusual occurrence – and that suggested they were relieved he had showed at all.
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Interview with Jakob Mattner
by Mara Goldwyn
2012-11-04
Posted
11/4/12
Berlin, Oct. 2012: The subtle relief sculptures, paintings, drawings, prints and stage design of German artist Jakob Mattner make something out of nothing. Or is it nothing out of something? He would perhaps say that it’s neither and in-between at the same time. Taking “the day, the night, and the twilight” as three points of reference, Mattner manipulates light in the most breathlessly simple way to create work that is ephemeral and timeless at once. His work will be on view at Artissima... [more]
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Interview with Hong Ling
by Iona Whittaker
2012-10-28
Posted
10/28/12
China, Oct. 2012: In a setting far removed from Beijing’s urgent crowds lies the home of Hong Ling, one of China’s foremost “modern Guohua” artists. Guohua, meaning “national painting”, refers to the Chinese landscape painting traditions which have evolved over hundreds – perhaps thousands – of years. In classical Chinese philosophy, mood is everything, determining what should be included (be it in poetry, painting or writing), and what is left aside. In seeking to portray a subjec... [more]
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Interview with Astha Butail
by Himali Singh Soin
2012-10-28
Posted
10/28/12
India, Oct. 2012: When I met Astha Butail, the contemporary visual of her red angular shirt, her poofy blue skirt and her lime green architectural clutch popped and played mischief with those around. But when we spoke, our words had little to do with fashion, though that is how Butail’s career began. Having encountered the realm of the conceptual, Astha Butail, an emerging artist with a keen eye for design, ventured into the ancient book of Vedas and the symbols and stories that fill their pages.... [more]
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137 &s with IAIN BAXTER& / the &MAN
by Alicia Chester
2012-10-21
Posted
10/21/12
Windsor, Canada, Oct. 2012: I met IAIN BAXTER& at the McDonald’s near The University of Windsor’s School of Visual Arts in Ontario, about a four-&-a-half hour drive southwest of Toronto. He wore a black t-shirt printed with the phrase “MASTURBATING LIFE MAKES ART,” a black baseball cap with an embroidered ampersand, & a Canon G12 camera around his neck.
BAXTER& has lived in Windsor – directly across the U.S. border from Detroit – since he took a position at the university in 1988, w... [more]
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Interview with Elodie Seguin
by James Thompson
2012-10-14
Posted
10/14/12
Paris, Oct, 2012: There is a problem with trying to write this introduction. In it I feel like I should tell you about why and how you should read on, I should list the achievements and recognition that Elodie Seguin has already received, her success. I should mention that she is only twenty-eight years old. I could call her one of the hottest upcoming artists in France at the moment.
But none of this seems quite right. It would seem a bit too much like hype. And this suits neither her nor her... [more]
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Interview with Aslı Çavuşoğlu
by Ana Finel Honigman
2012-10-07
Posted
10/7/12
London, Oct. 2012: Artists are accustomed to being cultural commentators, not the objects of others’ creative imaginations. Yet, as Aslı Çavuşoğlu observes, artists are also subject to stereotyping and artists can be fodder for extraordinary mass fantasies.
For Murder in Three Acts, part of the 2012 Frieze Projects series, Çavuşoğlu is directing a professional crime drama crew in a live performance during the Frieze vernissage. She is employing her research into the use of art settings, art... [more]
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