Archive
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SP-Arte: The São Paulo International Art Fair 2015
SP-Arte 2015 hosted work from more than 140 galleries and 170 countries. The glittering opening had its moments and the solo exhibitions and performance events were memorable. But if only the organisers had been bolder
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C4RD, the Centre for Recent Drawing
Artist Andrew Hewish founded C4RD, the Centre for Recent Drawing, ‘on the smell of an oil rag’ in a studio in Bethnal Green in east London in 2004. A member of the museum association of the UK and a UK…
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Andrew Hewish: ‘I’m interested in a process of drift, where things are allowed to happen’
Artist and C4RD director Andrew Hewish discusses how he makes objects and paintings using a broad variety of materials
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Gordon Shrigley: ‘Will Peck and I had lots of conversations about what the form of a residency is’
Will Peck, a recent graduate, and Gordon Shrigley, artist, (Gordon has various strings to his bow and asked me to describe him solely as ‘an artist’) talk about their collaborative residency at C4RD
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Andrew Hewish: ‘To introduce drawing as a category automatically produces interesting ways of thinking’
Artist Andrew Hewish founded C4RD, the Centre for Recent Drawing, ‘on the smell of an oil rag’ in a studio in Bethnal Green in east London in 2004
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Louise Cattrell: ‘I think you can use your memory to create that 360-degree panorama’
Landscape artist Louise Cattrell shares her secrets for bringing the viewer into the landscape and explains the magic of being presented with a blank white canvas
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Marcin Maciejowski: ‘I would be happy to always paint my wife’
The Polish portrait artist reveals the stories behind some of the paintings in his latest exhibition, Unsettled Matters – from his best friend’s wife, who didn’t really like him, to the girl in a YouTube video of a George Michael…
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Bryan Kneale – interview: ‘I always liked the idea of being totally in charge of the shape’
From shrapnel from a second world war German bomb to early editions of Studio International, Royal Academician Bryan Kneale talks about the inspiration behind his work and his latest show covering half a century of output
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Michel François: A Frozen Eagle Melting on the Theatre of Operations
In his latest exhibition, Belgian multimedia artist Michel François presents fragmented sculptures that toy with our desire to understand
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FB55
This show, while not shedding new light on Francis Bacon himself, does paint a picture of a very restrictive period for gay men and thus highlights the artist’s bravery in producing such provocative work
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Shirin Neshat: ‘Nothing is more powerful than human expression’
The artist talks about her latest exhibition, for which she photographed ordinary people in Azerbaijan, how she incorporates poetry into her work, and her feelings about being so close to her own birthplace, Iran, which she has not visited for…
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One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and Other Works
The artist’s 60-part work, based on the Great Migration of black people from the south to the north of the US from 1915, is shown here in its entirety. Shifting between the personal and the monumental, it tells the story…
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Mathieu Lehanneur: ‘If you say, I’m an industrial designer, a chair appears in people’s minds … I would like to push the boundaries’
Paris-based designer Mathieu Lehanneur talks about combining nature, science and technology in his creative practice, which ranges from a Wi-Fi station in Paris to a rather unusual cafe in Massachusetts, to working with Huawei, the world’s third largest mobile phone…
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CUBISM 2.0: Post-Cubism in Europe
This rare and beautiful exhibition presents 18 works by artists from France, Hungary, Russia and the US who shared the aims of cubism as applied to landscape, still-life and quotidian life
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Gavin Turk: ‘For a long time I’d say: “I don’t think I’m growing a beard, I’m just not shaving”’
For the launch of Project Beard at the Other Art Fair, artist Gavin Turk will shave off his beard in stages, transforming himself into six famous artists from Auguste Rodin to Salvador Dalí. Anna McNay went to Turk’s east London…
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Martín Ramírez: Forever
Martín Ramírez, an “outsider” artist from Mexico, who spent most of his life in US mental institutions, created enduring images of his native land and his life before confinement, bringing the importance of emotional experience to the forefront of art-making
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Life of Cats: Selections from the Hiraki Ukiyo-e Collection
Cats came to Japan from China in the sixth century, aboard ships carrying Buddhist texts. An enchanting new exhibition at the Japan Society presents these frolicsome felines in a distinctly Japanese cast, in ukiyo-e paintings and woodblock prints by Edo-period…
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Sarah Jane Moon: ‘Painting is fundamentally the relationship between an artist’s senses and the subject’s presence’
Having trained in portrait painting at the Heatherley School of Fine Art, Sarah Jane Moon went on to receive commendations from the Royal British Society of Sculptors and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, which awarded her the 2013 Bulldog Bursary.
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Maripol, Clare Stephenson and Zoe Williams: Spring / Summer 2015
This exhibition of work by Maripol – Polaroid artist, fashion designer and the woman who styled Madonna’s early image – along with sculpture by Clare Stephenson and video by Zoe Williams deliberately blurs the line between artforms
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Lee Ufan
Channelling the principles of Japan’s Mono-ha Group, Lee Ufan’s latest collection of reductive paintings and sculptures attempts to reanimate the association between the human and the natural
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Reni Gower and Jorge Benitez: ‘Nothing can be reduced to black and white’
Reni Gower and Jorge Benitez talk about their cross-cultural project Geometric Aljamía, which aimed to bring together visual arts as seen in Islamic and western cultures
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Lydia Gifford: ‘I’m learning how to let go. At times it feels like something’s being wrenched from you’
The British artist says her work is a continually generating material mass that is more about trying to catch movement than trying to make work
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Jonn Herschend: ‘We can use humour seriously in art to push agendas forward’
Film-maker and experimental publisher Jonn Herschend explains why Don Quixote has been such a major influence on him, why he relishes making films to show in galleries, and how growing up in an 1880s theme park shaped his work
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Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greek Art
The ancient Greeks are held up as the epitome of reason and measured beauty. But, as the British Museum’s current exhibition demonstrates, you don’t need to look far beyond the rationality and philosophical musings to reveal chaos and hidden passions
