Interviews

Tom Skipp is British video artist, translator and exhibition curator living in Madrid, Spain. He studied at the Arts Educational School in the Barbican, London and at Warwick University.

A foremost pioneer in Conceptual and Installation art, Joseph Kosuth is well-noted for the language-based artworks and appropriation techniques defining his oeuvre since the 1960s. Throughout his career, Kosuth’s practice has centered on the role of language and meaning within art.

John Zurier’s abstract, nearly monochrome paintings are spare in form and substantial in presence. The true beauty of the works lies in their subtlety. Zurier’s pieces quietly demand that one looks and looks again to see all that is there - past the uniform tones of backdrop, the creases of canvas, the intention of marks and gestures, then pans back to the whole of what is there - to really see it.

Martin Parr is one of the most recognizable documentary photographers of our time. His work can be accurately determined by the richness and brightness of colors and the “distant eye” angle, which has the power to make you laugh and cry, all at the same time.

Born in Portland, Oregon, artist Mike Berg has been interested in abstraction since the early days of his career. Feeling connected to countries such as Turkey, Uzbekistan and Armenia, Berg created his own form of artistic expression through geometrical abstractions created on tapestry.

In August 2015, North America’s most comprehensive international contemporary art fair - Art Basel - announced the appointment of Noah Horowitz to the new position of Director of The Americas. The news regarding the appointment of the Armory director to take over the leadership of Art Basel Miami, less than six months prior to its next edition, stirred up the already restless art scene. Noah Horowitz talks with Artdependence Magazine about his own preferences in art, the sources for his inspirations, and the art market’s adaptation to change.

In an era where intimacy has become a new technology, Gupta counters such franchised interests, by contextualising the lives of the individual, as they manage less to strive but to survive the altering condition of modernity.

In anticipation of the upcoming exhibition Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic at the Brooklyn Museum, Artdependence Magazine reached out to the artist with several questions about his work, his models, and the hidden meanings behind his paintings.

Berna Reale was born in 1965 in Belém, city located in the State of Pará in North Brazil. Recently invited by Luis Camilo Osorio and Cauê Alves to exhibit at the Brazilian Pavillion in the next Biennale de Venezia, she is one of the most prominent Brazilian artists at the moment.

If one thing is clear, it’s that Vincent van Gogh continues to inspire. In this case, he has inspired the creation of the world’s first feature-length painted animation, “Loving Vincent”, produced by Oscar winning film companies Breakthru Films and Trademark Film.