Interviews
-
Magnus Plessen: ‘I try to undo or confuse any preconceived ideas while working on a painting’
The German artist talks about his latest show at White Cube in London, which includes paintings done in the past two years as part of his continuing project, 1914, looking at the horrors inflicted on first world war soldiers
-
Monica Bonvicini: ‘It is not merely a display of sculptures and objects but a praxis about what it means to produce, show and display’
The Italian artist talks about her survey show at Baltic and how bringing together her works in new combinations helps her see them in different ways
-
Wael Shawky: ‘When you invert language, you make it even stronger’
With two exhibitions of his work opening in Italy this month, Wael Shawky talks about his film-making, connecting literature with myth and history, and why he uses marionettes and children as his protagonists
-
Anthea Hamilton: ‘There is something quite liberating about knowing that you can’t always resolve things because it gives you the freedom to go for it’
The Turner Prize-nominated artist talks about her experience of reimagining the Kettle’s Yard collection at the University of Cambridge in a contemporary and collaborative fashion
-
Maureen Gallace: ‘I wasn’t straining to do anything clever with such an odd or seemingly unfashionable way of painting’
For her third solo exhibition at Maureen Paley, London, the New York-based painter shows a group of new works that continue to mystify with their enigmatic portrayals of secluded houses and nature scenes
-
Peter Wächtler: ‘It’s a strange mixture of respect, and total disrespect’
The Berlin and Brussels-based artist discusses the benefits of repetition, grappling with tradition, and being an extra in a film with Tom Cruise
-
Helaine Blumenfeld: ‘Beauty has no real meaning any more’
The sculptor talks about her ideas of beauty and pain, and how she learned to express these through a visual language
-
Joel Shapiro: ‘As an artist, you are synthesising the stuff around you in a way that engages you’
The influential American sculptor, now in the fifth decade of his career, brings out his wood wall reliefs from the late 1970s for their first survey exhibition, at Dominique Lévy in New York, along with a new installation
-
Athena Papadopoulos: ‘Art is a kind of alchemy: turning shit into gold’
Drawing inspiration from her childhood and her womanising, fur-dealer father, Papadopoulos works across painting, drawing, textiles and collage to create messy, domestic installations using materials such as bedsheets, tablecloths, red wine, hair dye and lipstick
-
James Wilkes: ‘Mind-wandering has became a productive way for us to disrupt that idea of there being rest and the opposite of rest’
The exhibition Rest & its discontents at the Mile End Art Pavilion, London, is one of a number of events born from the works of Hubbub, a collective of multidisciplinary practitioners investigating busy-ness and rest. Wilkes, a poet, writer and…
-
Carla Rapoport: ‘I like to think we’re the Elvis of the art world’
The founder of the Lumen Prize says Elvis brought gospel and black music into the mainstream, and she hopes the annual Lumen awards will do the same for global digital art
-
James Richards: ‘I was really into making an exhibition space where there would be nothing to look at’
The artist, who will be representing Wales in Venice (Cymru yn Fenis) at next year’s biennale, talks about his processes of collaging together digital fragments to create immersive audiovisual installations
-
Arthur Watson: ‘What connected Nagoya and Chicago was the level of interest in the work. “Not bad,” is as good as it gets in north-east Scotland’
The artist talks about his current exhibition, Double Diablerie, in which he explores superstitions around the Devil, along with fellow Scottish artist Ian Howard and two Japanese artists
-
Simon Starling: ‘A little knowledge is a powerful thing, and too much knowledge can stifle creativity’
The Turner Prize-winning conceptual artist underscores his first institutional show in New York with a meticulously researched multimedia installation based around WB Yeats’s 1916 play At the Hawk’s Well and Noh theatre
-
Tom Ellis: ‘Defining yourself in opposition to something else is always going to be self-defeating’
The British artist talks about context, subversion and what it means to build a career in the middle
-
Peter Liversidge: ‘My work is solely about engagement’
The artist talks about the significance of his “proposals”, and discusses his recent project at Tate Modern involving a 500-strong choral performance, and his two new shows in the US
-
Susan Webster and Stuart Kestenbaum: interview
Maine’s poet laureate Stuart Kestenbaum and artist Susan Webster talk about their recent collaborative cross-disciplinary work
-
Simon Lewty: ‘I draw only from the imagination’
Lewty, whose work combines fantastic images with text, talks about where his inspiration comes from, the music he listens to while working, and the artists who have influenced him over his lifetime
-
Sofia Borges: ‘Photography can be used as a tool to mould our sense of reality’
The artist subverts photography, as she strives to ‘rub out meaning’. Instead, she explains, she is interested in the things that are lost, denied and corrupted in the transposition from object into image, and from image into reality, and from…
-
Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva: ‘I am driven by making the impossible possible’
The artist, who makes beautiful works of art using waste products from the meat industry talks about God, gastroenterology and pigs’ guts
-
Karen Guthrie: ‘Family history is a hidden pain with lots of people. A film can bring those things to the surface’
The film-maker talks about her incredibly successful and amazingly raw and personal documentary of her family history, The Closer We Get
-
Douglas Kotwall: ‘We want to incubate young, contemporary Chinese artists and curators’
Kotwall, a senior member of the K11 Art Foundation, talks about the ethos and goals of the organisation, which seeks to promote young Chinese artists, open up cross-cultural dialogues, and make art more accessible to the Chinese public
-
Guan Xiao: ‘I am learning about humour. It is a precious quality’
The artist talks about how the digital revolution has influenced her work, the roles of text and humour, and her dislike of being labelled
-
Amy Franceschini: ‘It’s kind of simple: I want to be alive and I want to breathe’
The artist talks about her upbringing in the breadbasket of America, and how this taught her about the interplay of power and politics and the importance of farming and our environment
-2016-300.jpg)
-300.jpg)
-300.jpg)
