ArtDependence | Anna Savitskaya

Anna Savitskaya, Russia, Ukraine (co-founder, coordinator, writer)

Anna is a graduate of Moscow’s Photo Academy, with a previous background in intellectual property rights. In 2012 she founded the company Perspectiva Art, dealing in art consultancy, curatorship, and the coordination of exhibitions. During the bilateral year between Russia and The Netherlands in 2013, Perspectiva Art organized a tour for a Dutch artist across Russia, as well as putting together several exhibitions in the Netherlands, curated by Anna. Anna has taken an active role in the development and management of ArtDependence Magazine. She left ArtDependence in 2019. Anna interviews curators and artists, in addition to reviewing books and events, and collaborating with museums and art fairs.

Articles (82)

Article date: Sunday, August 30, 2015

“I feel very strongly that my place right now is here” - interview with Tony Karman, director of EXPO CHICAGO 2015

EXPO CHICAGO 2015, the International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art, is due to take place from the 17th to the 20th of September. From its very start, EXPO CHICAGO had an array of undeniable advantages, such as timing, location, along with the rich and long history of its predecessor. The timing for EXPO CHICAGO is actually ideal: the fair opens the fall art season and rules the roster for the whole year. Not to mention the fair’s location in the heart of America, which attracts the attention of collectors and art lovers from both coasts. EXPO CHICAGO can rightly be considered the successor of Art Chicago, which was established in 1980 and acted as a pillar of contemporary art sales, along with such fairs like Art Cologne and Art Basel.

Article date: Thursday, August 20, 2015

“It is important to keep surprising yourself” - interview with Hellen van Meene

Dutch artist Hellen van Meene is well known for her style of photographic portraiture. Van Meene’s works depict mostly adolescents, but there are also sometimes small children or even animals. When looking at these photographs it is hard to say exactly when and where they were made. The background is only available at a glimpse, and the nondescript clothes pull the viewer’s attention completely towards the model. The subject’s postures and facial expressions that van Meen captures can almost paralyze the viewer, so deep is the experience of immersion, as Hellen van Meene stops the moment and captures the viewer within the world of these children.

Article date: Wednesday, July 15, 2015

'As for the smile, it appears as something that is missing' - an interview with Alexey Kallima

Whereas the early works of Russian artist Alexey Kallima stand out for their political overtones, his latest series (“Audience”) focuses on one simple and universal feature: the smile. The series, previously on show at Regina Gallery in Moscow, contained 65 portraits of smiling people. Kallima argues that the smile represents an emotion that is somehow missing in real life – through his work he therefore aims to draw the viewer into a form of involuntary therapy, resulting in the normalization of disturbed vital processes and a recovery towards a positive state.

Article date: Monday, June 15, 2015

"I want to remind that this beauty is all around us" - interview with Paulette Tavormina

Paulette Tavormina is an American fine art photographer, known for her body of work in the genre of still life photography. She began her journey in photography after attending black and white photography and darkroom technique classes while living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the early 1990s. Fascinated by the magical appearance of an image on a piece of paper bathed in chemicals, Paulette began to experiment with a wide range of photography styles. After studying studio lighting, she began photographing historic Indian pottery and Navajo jewelry. Her interest in lighting and composition later led her to work as a photo stylist for cookbooks and a prop and food specialist for Hollywood motion pictures, such as The Perfect Storm, Nixon and Astronaut’s Wife.

Article date: Friday, June 5, 2015

“To have “style”, for me, means to stop surprising people” – an interview with Pravdoliub Ivanov

Pravdoliub Ivanov is a Bulgarian artist who confronts the creative process and enjoys not only the resulting material, but also the relations which arise with its creation and its perception by the public. The clashing of views, innovative approaches, the breaking of stereotypes - this is what constitutes the essence of the artist’s work. When confronted with the installations of Pravdoliub the world turns upside down, and the usual conventional balance is distorted.

Article date: Wednesday, May 27, 2015

"Sometimes they love it, sometimes they hate it" - Interview with Bjorn Geldhof, the PinchukArtCentre

The PinchukArtCentre located in Kiev, Ukraine plays a defining role in the Ukrainian art scene at the present moment. Active since 2006, and with a total area of exhibition space measuring around 3000 sq. meters, the art center offers a wide range of activities, including exhibitions, educational programs, research projects, and public discussions. On a national level the institution set up the PinchukArtCentre Prize for young Ukrainian artists (up to 35 years old). Currently receiving over a thousand visitors a day, the PinchukArtCentre focuses on local talents, whilst also showing works by internationally acclaimed contemporary artists like Andreas Gursky, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami. New production, presentation, and collection, all highlighting national identity – this is the art center’s mission. Here is what Bjorn Geldhof tells Artdependence Magazine about the art situation in Ukraine and the PinchukArtCentre’s role in the development of Ukrainian contemporary art.

Article date: Tuesday, May 26, 2015

An emotional rollercoaster through modern art

The Pompidou Centre’s “New presentation of the modern collection 1905 - 1965”, which is due to open on May 27, represents a detailed coverage of all the main movements within modern art, highlighting big names from the museum’s collection. Surprisingly enough, Bernard Blistene, director of Pompidou Centre and the curator of this exhibition, acknowledges that the work for this ambitious and at the same time educational project, which “reveals the succession of figures, works and movements that structured modern art”, took only 2 months (although during this time the museum’s whole team worked from dusk till dawn). The main idea, though, came to him about half a year ago.

Article date: Friday, May 15, 2015

I think we confuse photography and art by trying to harmonize all its possible contexts – interview with Darren Harvey-Regan

The photography of British artist Darren Harvey-Regan (b.1974) embraces the convergence of genres: abstract, landscape and still life. Darren’s photographs are not saturated with objects. He defines his focus towards particular sculptural forms and geometrical shapes, often looking towards nature’s own lines and curves – in order to create pure abstract worlds with mixed dimensions and clean contours.

Article date: Wednesday, May 6, 2015

"Art is a quest for truth" - an interview with curator Susanne Pfeffer of the Venice Biennale project for the Swiss Pavilion

This year the Swiss pavilion will show the work of Pamela Rosenkranz at the 56th edition of the Venice Biennale. The interpretation of artistic vision, alongside the creation of a link between the audience and the artist is the task of a curator. Susanne Pfeffer talks to AD about the curator’s role, the relationship between the artist and the viewer, her preferences in contemporary art and her project for the Venice Biennale.

Article date: Thursday, April 2, 2015

Interview with Marek Bartelik, President of AICA International

Marek Bartelik, President of AICA International, about art criticism today: "In the era of growing presence of social media, art criticism is often either reduced to a type of entertainment or it takes the form of heavy-duty academic writing. I would like to see more “grassroots” criticism, with a global outreach, written in language accessible to as many readers as possible, and, of course, with a greater diversity of voices than we have today."

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