Articles
Article date: Friday, October 17, 2014
Make art, like love | Interview with Kendell Geers
Broken glass and barbed wire always play a major role in describing Kendell Geers' attitude to what is going on in the world. The range of media used is very diverse: sculpture, installation, painting, photography, and drawing. Kendell Geers has exhibited globally and took part in a number of events: Documenta, Taipei Biennial, Lyon Biennial, Glasstress at the Venice Biennial to name a few. He also had solo shows in Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst in Gent, Palais de Tokyo, Haus der Kunst in Munich etc.
Article date: Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Behold the Future | Katie Paterson interview
Born in Glasgow in 1981, and educated at Edinburgh College of Art, and the Slade School of Art, respectively. Paterson belongs to a successful crop of Scottish artists who have broken onto the international art scene in recent times.
Article date: Saturday, October 4, 2014
Interview with Gail and Ralph Bryan, producers of world-known, award-winning shows
Latitude Link is a theatrical production and licensing company led by Ralph and Gail Bryan. Their productions have won numerous awards, have been seen in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia, Korea, Singapore, South Africa and Japan and have been enjoyed by over 12 million people since the company's inception in 2005. Most of the shows are well known to everyone: “Jersey Boys”, “Memphis”, “Matilda”, “Rocky” and some others.
Article date: Friday, September 26, 2014
100 Painters of Tomorrow
Surprisingly, there has never been such a serious survey of young and promising painters as that done by "100 Painters of Tomorrow", which presents a thorough and careful selection out of 4300 applicants from 105 countries. Among the jurors of the project were artists, curators, critics, art historians and collectors. Substantial input was also provided by a meaningful number of international painting schools, which were able to recommend their prominent students, current or former, for the juror's panel consideration. This publication is a reference book for curators and collectors, as well as a source of inspiration for artists and a wonderful selection for art lovers.
Article date: Saturday, September 20, 2014
Interview with Paul Gaffney, author of the photobook "We make the Path by Walking".
Paul Gaffney is an Irish artist whose self-published book We Make the Path by Walking was nominated for the Photobook Award 2013 at the sixth International Photobook Festival in Kassel, Germany, and shortlisted for the European Publishers Award for Photography 2013. The book was selected for several 'Best Photobooks of 2013' lists, including Photo-Eye and British Journal of Photography. Apart from the wonderful photographs and an unusual design, the book invites us to make our own internal and meditative journey into nature.
Article date: Monday, September 15, 2014
Interview with Fred and Laura Bidwell, founders of Bidwell Foundation and The Transformer Station Museum
For more than 20 years Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell have been gathering an extensive collection of contemporary photography. When the Bidwell Foundation made a decision to acquire the Transformer Station (built in 1924), restore and expand it with a contemporary addition to make a new space for contemporary art in Cleveland, Ohio (USA) it might have seemed an unmanageable task for anyone, but not for the Bidwells.