Archive
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Julien Prévieux: ‘Humour is a good fighting trick’
From ‘hacking’ Google to responding to ads to tell employers why he doesn’t want their job, the French artist employs humour to explore, among other things, technology and copyright. Here, he explains the concepts behind his art, while Rachel Cook,…
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Nikolai Astrup: Painting Norway
Astrup described himself as a naive naturalist painter, and his richly colourful landscapes are potent with narrative. This is the first major show outside Norway for an artist who has been overshadowed by his countryman Edvard Munch
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Maha Malluh: ‘I don’t see the point in creating new objects while we have a lot of waste around us’
The Saudi Arabian artist talks about the allure of working with found objects, why she considers gender to be immaterial, and the significance of hosting a women-only exhibition in 2016
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Kaleidoscope: The Indivisible Present
In the first of its exhibitions to celebrate its 50th birthday, the museum focuses on the examination of time and temporality by artists including Yoko Ono, Pierre Huyghe and Elizabeth Price
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Anthony Engi Meacock: ‘Bringing creative practice out of the art bubble and into a wider context is a really interesting thing’
The founder member of Assemble, which last year became the first architectural practice to win the Turner Prize, talks about the group’s work and ethos, and the benefits of combining the artist’s qualities of curiosity and openness with an architectural…
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Betty Woodman: Theatre of the Domestic
Breaking the boundaries between 2D and 3D works, Betty Woodman’s ceramic assemblages resemble stage sets for dreams, filled with figments and fragments of imagination and memory
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Jerwood Encounters: Common Property
Through the work of six artists, including three new commissions, this exhibition looks at the thorny issue of copyright around art production
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Hector McDonnell: ‘My paintings have always been about personal experiences’
As well as a realist painter of everything from Northern Ireland’s infamous Maze prison to Rwanda after the genocide and the twin towers following 9/11, McDonnell is a prolific cartoonist and the author of books on Irish history
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Andy Warhol: Works from the Hall Collection
“Andy took the world as it was and, in his own way, described it with amazing accuracy,” says curator Norman Rosenthal, who talks about trying “to tell a story through the pack of cards that is the [Hall] collection”. Studio…
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Superflex’s Rasmus Nielsen: ‘I would not call us do-gooders, but maybe doers’
The work of the Danish collective has included everything from designing a public park to producing soft drinks and biogas lamps for farmers. Rasmus Nielsen explains how the group started and its refusal to be boxed in
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Simon Fujiwara: White Day
A Harvey Nichols paper bag, a single branch from a plum tree and a pile of shaved fur coats are some of the objects Fujiwara uses to challenge our common perceptions and stereotypes, as he turns the gallery into a…
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Art into Society – Society into Art: Seven German Artists
By revisiting a key exhibition of German artists from 1974, the ICA reflects on art, its relationship to capitalism, and its potential to incite reform
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Collateral Drawing: ‘It’s like revealing the magic trick’
Co-curators and artists from the ongoing Collateral Drawing project reveal insights into their working processes and how exhibiting by products of their creation changes the way they think about their own practices
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Alice Anderson: ‘I don’t refuse this world, I just need to explore alternatives to live with it today’
The artist talks about her unique method of “memorising” and “recording” objects in copper wire, and explains how this helps her to slow down and maintain an intimacy with the world around her
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Maud Sulter, Syrcas
The Scottish-Ghanaian artist placed black women at the centre of the frame, metaphorically and literally. This exhibition of her series Syrcas shows her use of photomontage to disrupt European images by covering them with traditional African objects and artworks
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Odili Donald Odita: ‘I want to use colour to have an effect on the mind and body’
Known for his vibrant, large-scale, abstract paintings, the artist talks about his influences, from the crazy patterns of wallpaper and the African artefacts in his childhood home, to the exhibitions and artists who have shaped his work
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Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse
The walls of this exhibition tremble with the vibrant blooms of summer days. Gardens have inspired artists and influenced painting, from impressionism to the avant garde and beyond. Here, curator William Robinson talks about the exhibition and Monet’s erudite passion…
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Rose English: ‘Improvisation is present always, making anything’
The artist talks about her collaboration with composer Luke Stoneham and a troupe of Chinese acrobats, for her evolving work, now on show as A Premonition of the Act at Camden Arts Centre in London
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Koen Vanmechelen: ‘An artist is always arriving at something that was unknown before’
The man who turned breeding chickens into an art explains his plans to create a sustainable, diverse society, and how his new project, Biomista, will advance his aims
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Robel Temesgen: ‘Being an Ethiopian in Norway was a really interesting inversion’
In his first London show, the artist explores the Ethiopian traditions of honouring the spirit of a place or community. Two years of studying in Norway have only intensified his fascination with disappearing rituals and cultural and social fragmentation
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Line
Spanning a wide range of media, this exhibition takes works created since 1969 by 15 artists, each of whom translates the same concept – the form of the line – into a distinct, novel idea
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Virgile Ittah: ‘I think it’s in an artist’s genes – they never follow the rules’
The artist talks about her unique wax modelling technique, her current collaboration, and explains why she feels gender is no longer an issue
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Aura Satz: ‘I think of all my works as conversations’
The artist reveals some of the hidden stories that inspire her film, performance and installation works, exploring different techniques for visualising sound and seeking to recover the unheard female voice
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Pat Sachs: ‘The small, intimate scale has felt ideally suited for my visual language’
Working on drawings after labouring over collages is like taking a gallop through a vast field, says the artist best known for her tiny, torn-paper explorations of landscapes and architectural forms
