Author: jaywp
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Michael Benson: ‘Science is about trying to increase that zone of what we know. Art has a much freer hand. It can leap far ahead of science’
Benson fuses art and science to conjure spectacular images from raw data collected by Nasa and ESA. Here he talks about science fiction, climate change and his exhibition at London’s Natural History Museum
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Bosco Sodi: ‘I like the freedom of letting the mind and soul go on a journey with the work’
Bosco Sodi talks about the two processes in his work: the one where he is in control and the one where he lets go and waits for the surprise of the outcome
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Asya Dodina and Slava Polishchuk: ‘Material dictates the way you relate to the fact you describe’
The Russian immigrant artists talk about the difference between art education in the former Soviet Union and in the United States and the importance of using materials as expressive means in their work
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Steven Claydon: interview, Art Sheffield 2016
Steven Claydon’s newly commissioned Infra-idol Assembly is set within the vast, bunker-like, top-floor space of the Moore Street substation, designed by Jefferson Sheard and constructed in the 60s, when it was thought that Sheffield’s industrial star was still on the…
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Beatrice Gibson: interview, Art Sheffield 2016
London-based artist Beatrice Gibson’s film F for Fibonacci, at Bloc Projects, evokes the chaos of contemporary capitalist economics via a child’s Minecraft fantasy, contrasting the simplicity of the child’s-eye view with the grotesque and sometimes surreal aspirations and machinations of…
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Mark Fell: interview, Art Sheffield 2016
Mark Fell’s Structural Solutions to the Question of Being is being exhibited at The Link pub on the Park Hill housing estate. Fell, who describes himself as a “Rotherham-based music producer and artist”, brings a wealth of local knowledge to…
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Martin Clark: interview, Art Sheffield 2016
Martin Clark, the director of Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, has created Art Sheffield 2016: Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange and Charm, entirely around sound and video art.
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Art Sheffield 2016: Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange and Charm
For this citywide event, curator Martin Clark aims to inspire a connection between different parts of Sheffield in an event that revolves entirely around sound and video art. Studio International spoke to him and some of the artists involved
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François Morellet: ‘Art is frivolous even when it takes itself seriously’
Two exhibitions by François Morellet, at London’s Mayor Gallery and Annely Juda Fine Art, mark the 90th birthday of one of the leading figures of postwar European art, who once described himself as the ‘monstrous son of Mondrian and Picabia’
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Channa Horwitz
Controlled but creative, formulaic but somehow free, hypnotic in their undulation and unique in their variation, the graph-paper paintings of the late Californian artist demonstrate the infinite possibilities of line and colour
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Glasgow International 2016
The biennial festival returns for its seventh edition with more than 220 contemporary artists from all over the world. This ambitious collection includes new works, site-specific commissions and new venues throughout the city
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Random International: ‘There is a real collective power in this group of people’
Hannes Koch of Random International talks about the collective’s latest project, producing a kinetic artwork consisting of 15 points of light, recognisable almost instantaneously as the human form
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Spencer Finch: The Opposite of Blindness
In his third solo exhibition at the Lisson Gallery, Finch attempts to take visitors beyond the limits of natural vision and into a parallel reality occupied by insects, GPS equipment and Martian light
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Lucy Jones: ‘My work is not slick and I struggle to resolve my paintings’
The artist talks about her recent return to making portraits of others, and explains what she sees as a balancing act between the tools that go to make up the language of a painting
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Carambolages
Paris is, as ever, a cauldron of art, but one breakout exhibition, expertly curated to challenge the old rules of staging, stirs the imagination, quickens the eye and gladdens the soul
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Michael Dean: Sic Glyphs
Despite the urban construction materials, the steel bars and concrete slabs, there is a strong sense that the viewer must ‘read’ Michael Dean’s sculptures in order to make sense of them
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Todd Oldham: ‘I wasn’t very fashionable, so it was to our advantage that our designs sat as a separate thing’
The New York-based designer talks about designing $10,000 dresses, his aversion to using animal materials, and his experiences of the New York fashion scene in the 1990s
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Arnaldo Pomodoro: ‘Sculpture is the appropriation of one’s own space within the wider space in which we live and move’
As Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro has his first London exhibition for more than 50 years, he talks about his work and the influences that have shaped it
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Philip Pearlstein: ‘I decided I didn’t want to express other artists’ ideas any longer. I wanted to paint what was in front of me’
The American artist has pursued an independent path for more than 60 years. Here, he talks about his life and career, from his time in Italy during the second world war and his student days with Andy Warhol to his…
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Bernard Jacobson: ‘I want to bring people back to art’
The art dealer talks about his current exhibition, Bonheur de Vivre, which he considers ‘a precis of 20th-century beauty’, a return to art that focuses on passion, joy, happiness, light and colour
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Comix Creatrix: 100 women making comics
This is a groundbreaking exhibition of female comics artists, from Hogarth’s contemporary Mary Darly to the modern day. Below, Sarah Lightman, Nicola Streeten and Rachael House talk to us about their work
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Richard Sides: Invisible World
The artist’s latest exhibition confirms his confidence and ability to transform space and boundaries as he leads the visitor from the gallery to a nightclub, to mysterious doors and an odd sitting room
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Terry Setch: ‘I regarded the beach as a playground – somewhere you can behave irreverently’
The artist explains his practice, recalling memories of the beach at Penarth and his desire to extend the surface of his paintings. We spoke to Setch at Flowers Cork Street, at the opening of his exhibition, Reduced to Rubble
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Picasso: The Great War, Experimentation and Change
The exhibition succeeds in introducing the complicated story of Picasso’s simultaneous exploration of cubism and classicism, but more could have been done to explore his continuing fascination with the latter after the first world war ended
