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Interview with Kris Scheifele
by Aldrin Valdez
2012-09-30
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9/30/12
New York, Sept. 2012: For her second solo show “Fade” at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Kris Scheifele has made a series of sixteen paint-sculptures. Body-like and reminiscent of flayed meat, they hang from thin nails on the wall. They allude to the human form but they also suggest handbags, torn yoga mats, the friction-burned undersides of tennis shoes—plastic detritus in the process of breaking down, the kind you might find in a garbage dump. But they are beautifully made. They sag and droop and—jui... [more]
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Psychosexy: Interview with David Humphrey
by Bradley Rubenstein
2012-09-22
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9/22/12
New York, Sep. 2012: David Humphrey is a New York artist, born in 1955, who has been showing his paintings and sculpture internationally since the 1980s. Occasionally called a Pop Surrealist, his work hybridizes a variety of depiction schemes and idioms to make works charged with psycho-social content and narrative potential. He is represented by the Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, NY, and is a senior critic at the Yale School of Art. An anthology of his art writing, Blind Handshake, was published by... [more]
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Of art, politics, and imagination. An interview with Yael Bartana.
by Nicola Bozzi
2012-09-17
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9/17/12
Amsterdam, Sep. 2012 - The past few years have brought a renewed relevance to politics in contemporary art, a necessary reflex of the cultural world to global economic and societal conditions from which it can no longer pretend to be independent. Activism is increasingly affecting the aesthetics of visual arts and, this summer, it literally colonized its institutions, when the latest Berlin Biennale populated the KunstWerke with protesters from the Occupy and Indignados movements. Even fairs li... [more]
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Interview with Timur Si-Qin
by Devon Caranicas
2012-09-08
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9/8/12
Berlin, Sept. 2012: An interdisciplinary analysis stemming from overlapping theories in biological science, philosophy and psychology have laid the ground work for Berlin-based artist Timur Si-Qin's object based installations. Culling images and products from a diverse range of media, Si-Qin mediates stock photographs, advertising schemes and everyday objects to pointedly tap into humanity's evolutionary predispositions that drive us.
Probing our psyche with subjects as disparate, but nonetheless... [more]
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Interview with Marinella Senatore
by Ana Finel Honigman
2012-09-02
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9/2/12
Berlin, Sept. 2012: As the American elections loom ahead, many ArtSlant readers will be ruminating on how individuals’ values, allegiances and issues tie together communities. For anyone chewing on these concerns, Marinella Senatore’s art offers an inspiring example of people working together to create intellectual consensus by collectively investigating the nature of community. Her elaborate film projects involve masses of volunteers in various cosmopolitan cities who band together for a com... [more]
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The Order of Things: Interview with Pedro Barbeito
by Bradley Rubenstein
2012-08-26
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8/26/12
New York, Aug. 2012: Pedro Barbeito’s exhibition at The Aldrich, Pop Violence, presents a series of work ranging from 2005 to the present that are based on images of war taken primarily from the world news media. For Barbeito, these works address the formative role of violence in contemporary life, from a political ethos driven by “terror” and deception, to the aesthetics of visual assault prevailing in popular culture. They draw upon the anxieties of an age when we are afforded, primarily... [more]
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Interview with Frank Laws
by Charlotte Jansen
2012-08-19
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8/19/12
London, Aug. 2012: As a viewer, art can roughly be divided into two categories: art that you think you could have done yourself, and art you definitely know you could never have done yourself, and wonder how any earthling was able to do. Frank Laws' work most certainly belongs to the latter category.
I wrote about Frank Laws’ work for ArtSlant last in 2011, a small, awe-struck (and now somewhat cringe-inducing) article circumnavigating Laws’ first London solo exhibition, Dwellings. Since then, he has continued his work, as an in-ho... [more]
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Interview with Maarten Vanden Eynde
by Andrea Alessi
2012-08-12
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8/12/12
Brussels, Aug, 2012 - I met up with Belgian artist Maarten Vanden Eynde as he installed the finishing touches on his latest show, The Museum of Forgotten History XXX, at MuHKA in Antwerp. The cacophonous sounds of Jimmie Durham’s lively and exhaustive retrospective echoed from the floor below, linking the two exhibitions, which could not complement each other better. While Durham questions naturalized ideas of geography, nationality, ethnicity, and materiality, Vanden Eynde deals in epistemology, th... [more]
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Interview with Mariam Ghani
by Charlie Schultz
2012-08-04
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8/4/12
Kassel, June 2012 – Mariam Ghani’s research-based projects explore the socio-political histories of specific places, and often respond directly to the site upon which she works and exhibits. For Documenta 13, Ghani collaborated with a team to create the multichannel film, A Brief History of Collapses, which is based on and filmed within Kassel’s Museum Fridericianum and the Dar ul-Aman Palace in Kabul. In addition she produced Afghanistan: A Lexicon, with her father for Documenta's 100 Notes,... [more]
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A Peek Into the Chamber: Interview with ob
by Nicole Rodriguez
2012-07-28
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7/28/12
Berlin, July 2012: There is a scene in the Ridley Scott’s movie Alien (1979) where Executive Officer Kane (played by John Hurt) is lowered into a derelict ship and discoverers a chamber filled with hundreds of alien eggs lined up in neat little rows, laid and waiting to hatch. This is the vision Takashi Murakami took as his inspirations for the Chamber — a little room at the Kaikai Kiki studio where Murakami stores and nurtures a batch of young talent until, presumably, with enough TLC, they... [more]
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Interview with Pablo Delgado
by Charlotte Jansen
2012-07-23
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7/23/12
London, July 2012: Pablo Delgado is a relative newcomer whose work has been quietly emerging on London’s streets, if you can spot it. His scattered miniature people paste-ups depicting all kinds of scenes from the everyday to the surreal, have become well-documented on the web. Reconfiguring images taken from the net, Delgado’s figures, only a few inches high, are something like Alice In Wonderland interloping with the Borrowers, living in a parallel world existing alongside our own. Not mea... [more]
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Interview with KLUB7
by Max Nesterak
2012-07-23
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7/23/12
Berlin, July 2012: Since 1998, the Berlin-based street art and design collective KLUB7 has been showcasing their work -- a mixture of pop art, street grunge, and childlike playfulness -- on street fronts and in store fronts. The collective's style emerges from a intentional democratic synthesis of its six members' six distinct styles, which is how they've been able to stay together for more than a decade. True to their street art roots, they spend a lot of their time on free, public art projects,... [more]
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Interview with Molly Crabapple
by Ana Finel Honigman
2012-07-15
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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]
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Interview with Tang Yongxiang
by Iona Whittaker
2012-07-08
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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]
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It Never Really Goes Away: An Interview with Daniel Clowes
by Christina Catherine Martinez
2012-07-01
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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]
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Interview with Heather Hart
by Lori Zimmer
2012-06-23
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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]
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