Archive
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Eileen Cooper: ‘Artists are real sponges. We take things and absorb them and eventually use them in our work’
The artist talks about having a retrospective at the Royal Academy at the same time as showing in its Summer Exhibition, critics’ sometimes overzealous interpretation of her works and her love of materials and process
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Geoffrey Eastop: ‘The character of the mark describes the object’
Geoffrey Eastop – his creative legacy. Studio international visited Ecchinswell in Hampshire – to view Geoffrey Eastop’s Open Studio. We had arranged to interview Eastop, but very sadly he died at the age of 93, on Christmas Day 2014, some…
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Julian Opie: ‘I’ve always used movement as much as colour or imagery’
The artist talks about his current exhibition at the Alan Cristea Gallery, playing with the way we interact, see and deal emotionally with the world through vision, light and the brain – and making rude drawings of his tutors as…
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Conrad Shawcross: The Dappled Light of the Sun
As well as his epic, sprawling installation that greets visitors to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, you can see miniature sculptures by Conrad Shawcross at the Victoria Miro Gallery
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Chloe Dewe Mathews: ‘I wanted to bring the viewer in, so they become part of the congregation’
Chloe Dewe Mathews’s Tate commission, Congregation, looks at south London’s African churches, capturing the community in the physical and emotional act of worship. She talks about what motivated her to video the congregations and why the new Bosse & Baum…
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Agnes Martin
This major retrospective spans Martin’s career from the early 50s to the last drawing made before her death, and confirms her as one of the foremost painters of the 20th century
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: ‘Maybe I’m not as interested in people as I thought I was’
The artist, whose latest exhibition, Verses After Dusk, is on at the Serpentine Gallery, London, talks about how she makes her paintings timeless and placeless, and her interest in the nature of painting itself and what that does to the…
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Alighiero Boetti: Order and Disorder
As well as some of his best-known works of embroidery and ballpoint-pen drawings, this exhibition includes fascinating archival material, including postcards, photographs and letters that shed light on the artist’s life
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Roni Horn: Butterfly Doubt
Three recent series of works from the New York artist, using her trademark method of tessellating two pictures together, draw the viewer into a carefully choreographed network of associations
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Cecily Brown: ‘In a way you can see things more clearly when they’re small’
The artist talks about her latest exhibition, The English Garden, explains why it is a lot harder to make a small painting than a big one, why the surface of a painting is so important for her, and how she…
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Sarah Lucas: I Scream Daddio – Venice Biennale 2015
Sarah Lucas came to prominence in the 90s with the generation of Young British Artists, but it has taken her until now, at the age of 52, to be invited to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale. Curator Richard Riley…
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On My Way – Venice Biennale 2015
As a parallel event to the Venice Biennale, a group of artists from Russia present an exhibition that juxtaposes works made in new and traditional media, further undermining the principle of media-specificity. Studio International spoke to some of the artists
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Reflections on the Self: From Dürer to Struth
This exhibition explores the genre of the self-portrait, looking at the ways in which more than 50 artists from the 1400s onwards have sought to visualise the self
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ART15: London’s Global Art Fair
Galleries from 40 countries came together at this third edition of the London fair to celebrate art from every corner of the globe
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Tracey Emin | Egon Schiele: Where I Want to Go
In this exhibition, in which Tracey Emin juxtaposes her works with those of her teenage idol Egon Schiele, she explores love, loneliness and vulnerability
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Jake Chapman: ‘Show me a Hitler and I’ll draw on it’
Having unveiled the sinister Sturm und Drang at Ekebergparken Sculpture Park, Oslo, one half of artistic duo the Chapman Brothers discusses the merits of artistic thievery, the definition of beauty, and Adolf Hitler
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Rafaël Rozendaal: ‘I see the same intensification of reality in Mondrian and Mickey Mouse’
The artist, who now has hundreds of websites to his name, talks about using the internet as his canvas, uploading our minds, and why he makes moving images that have no beginning or end
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Rachel Maclean: ‘I’m taking and contributing to the weird recycled ecosystem of the internet’
The artist talks about taking her inspiration from YouTube and LolCats to Britney Spears and Scottishness to explore gender, class and nationality, and explains how she transforms herself to play every role and model in her videos
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BGL: ‘In our installation, people play with money, and we like this game’
Canadian art collective BGL makes art that is playful and provocative, parodying everyday objects to comment on our material passions and obsessions with consumerism. Studio International spoke to them at the 56th Venice Biennale
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Max Mara Art Prize for Women: Corin Sworn
Corin Sworn, the fifth winner of the biannual Max Mara Art Prize for Women, has taken the 16th-century Italian commedia dell’arte as the theme for her exhibition about mistaken identity
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Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971
The message of Yoko Ono’s art has always been world peace. In her performances, installations and books, she invites the audience’s active involvement to make them understand her art not only on an intellectual, but also a visceral level
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Shirazeh Houshiary: Smell of First Snow
By playing cunning games with light and perspective, Houshiary has found ways to make her sculptures come physically alive, but it is the paintings in this exhibition that are the most intriguing
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Graham Fagen: ‘Come into the garden and forget about the war’ – Venice Biennale 2015
Glasgow-based artist Graham Fagen, who is representing Scotland for the 56th Venice Biennale, has mixed Robbie Burns with Reggae in a homage to his homeland and Jamaican culture. He talks to Studio International about his work
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Catlin Art Prize 2015
Eight of the UK’s most promising arts graduates are picked each year to show at the Catlin Art Prize exhibition. Studio International went along to talk to the 2015 finalists and see their work, including that of the overall winner,…
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