Archive
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Fu Site: Politicians
Working with layers of mixed media on paper and canvas, Fu Site, whose exhibition Politicians is at the Galerie Paris-Beijing, plucks characters out of the pages of magazines and places them into his dark world of corruption and confusion
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The Present of Modernism
The Present of Modernism at Vienna’s Mumok compares works from the original movement alongside early abstract art, futurist work and contemporary pieces that recall related ideas. In so doing, it opens up a dialogue between past and present, but the…
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DALeast interview: ‘I’m constantly thinking about creating something more than the eye can see’
The Laten Photon Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York 4 September – 4 October 2014
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Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: persistances
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s immersive installations merge movement and sound and extract the musical potential from the seemingly banal soundtrack of quotidian life
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Nanda Vigo: interview
A pioneer in modern Italian art, Nanda Vigo has continually skirted the confines of design, architecture and installation to compelling effect, in her own practice, as well as in her collaborations with other radical figures such as Lucio Fontana and…
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Anne Graham interview: ‘The ability to see things as if for the first time is for me the essential quality necessary to make art’
Anne Graham William Wright Artist Projects, Sydney 28 August – 13 September 2014
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Deb Covell interview: ‘I want to show how far painting can be pushed’
Deb Covell (b1966) is a painter who seeks to celebrate the material qualities of paint. Rejecting pictorial imagery, she also eschews the traditional canvas support, producing paintings that hang from walls like drapes or lie folded and crumpled on the…
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Nico van der Endt interview: ‘Willem van Genk was a visionary, a man discovering a universal truth about the human species’
Willem van Genk, one of the most fascinating outsider artists, is featured in a new exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum. Studio International talks with his longtime dealer, Nico van der Endt, for a personal view of the artist
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Retrospective Exhibition Constantin Meunier (1831-1905)
Constantin Meunier is now mostly remembered for his bronze statues of industrial workers, but this retrospective concentrates on 30 years’ worth of drawings, paintings and sketches that led up to his later career
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Jasper Johns: Regrets
Jasper Johns’ new works at the Courtauld Gallery, Regrets, take inspiration from Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and the photographer John Deakin. The result is a powerful, if enigmatic exhibition
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Mwangi Hutter interview: ‘we are interested in personal and universal responsibility’
Berlin and Nairobi-based artist duo Mwangi Hutter talk about their work as a collaborative, how they work through ideas and some past and forthcoming projects
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The Real Tudors: Kings and Queens Rediscovered
The latest exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery seeks to strip back the layers of 16th-century portraiture to reveal the hidden secrets of the royal image in Tudor England
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Nadav Kander: interview
Nadav Kander is an award-winning photographer with an international reputation. He has photographed politicians, film stars, royalty and Olympic athletes, as well as turning his attention to some ambitious landscape projects.
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David Hockney: The Arrival of Spring
David Hockney’s drawings and prints of English wooded lawns and leafy alleys now on show at the Pace Gallery in New York City not only demonstrate his technical mastery but illustrate why he is eternally popular
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Arnulf Rainer: Retrospective
In a thrilling career-spanning retrospective, Arnulf Rainer proves that art can be revelatory through shock and humour, but we may not be comfortable with what it reveals
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Daniel Buren: Comme Un Jeu d’Enfant / Like Child’s Play, Work In Situ
Daniel Buren’s transformation of Strasbourg’s Musée d’Art Moderne et Comtemporain demonstrates his powerful use of colour. It is hard not to be moved by this meditative installation
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Xavier Mascaró interview: ‘I’m a sculptor, because I want to leave something behind, some trace of what I have been’
Spanish sculptor Xavier Mascaró talks about his obsession with presence and absence in his work, how ancient cultures inspire him, and the laborious process involved in casting his monumental pieces by hand
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Agathe Sorel interview: ‘I never have an idea in advance, even now. Experimentation spreads through all my work’
Agathe Sorel talks about her battle to get printmaking recognised in art colleges, her unconventional use of the engraved line, the influence of maths and science on her work – and being kicked out of photo shops
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Christopher Le Brun interview: ‘From the drama of the image in my earlier work, I’ve switched to this other drama where the image is erased or obscured’
Royal Academy president Christopher Le Brun has produced 33 new canvases for his solo show at Friedman Benda, his first in the US in 10 years. He talks about his move from mythological and symbolic imagery to abstraction, the source…
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Sally Smart: interview
Sally Smart, known for her large-scale installations, talks about her recent project, The Pedagogical Puppet (2012), made during a residency at the University of Connecticut. Her Bauhaus-inspired work represents an independent artistic spirit in Australia, where she lives and works
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Vânia Mignone: interview
In this conversation with Studio International about her first retrospective, titled Scenarios, at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo, the painter Vânia Mignone explains her creative process, discloses her major influences, and tells us how…
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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: interview
Famous for his interactive installations for public spaces, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer talks about his unusual path from physical chemistry graduate to artist, and the growing relationship between technology and artistic practice
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Maryam Najd: Accuracy & Balance – West
In her work, painter Maryam Najd, who was born in Iran but now lives in Belgium, explores whether the prevalence of the naked female form in the west really represents emancipation
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Will Maclean and Marian Leven: interview
‘An Suileachan was intended to be something that looked to the future and would lead to a feeling of community ownership’
