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Interview with Astha Butail
by Himali Singh Soin
2012-10-28
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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
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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
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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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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
Posted
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
Posted
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
Posted
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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