Author: jaywp
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Bill Viola: ‘I was always interested in the inner life of the world around me’
Dealing with themes of life and death, human consciousness and emotional expression, the artist’s video art speaks to audiences across the globe. Here, he discusses his current exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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Zhan Wang – studio tour
The Beijing-based artist showed Studio International around his studio
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Hideyuki Katsumata: USO de HONTOU
In Dundee, a city known for its video game and comic book heritage, cult artist Hideyuki Katsumata is given his first UK exhibition, drawing crowds with his psychedelic surrealism and intriguing style
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Jon Rafman
The artist draws us into his virtual world with playful installations and video works, as he leads us through his disturbing and gripping interpretations of internet culture
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Frank Stella: A Retrospective
As Stella is the first living artist to be shown at the Whitney Museum’s new downtown space, the exhibition is by definition a mission statement
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Giacometti: Pure Presence
Step into Giacometti’s world of timeless souls rendered in paint and bronze at the National Portrait Gallery’s latest blockbuster exhibition
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Zhan Wang: ‘I have been continually influenced by Michelangelo, Rodin and traditional Chinese sculpture’
The Beijing-based artist is a photographer and video artist, although he is best known for sculpting highly polished stainless steel rocks, a cultural reference to the ‘scholar stones’ loved by the Chinese for their aesthetic appearance
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Grant Clifford: ‘I still feel fear starting a painting’
The artist and psychotherapist discusses the intertwining of his two careers, the importance of loneliness to the creative effort and the fear of facing death
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Ayakamay: ‘I’m a street performer’
Ayakamay is an American-born Japanese artist ‘exploring the interrelationship between photography and performance’
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Bob and Roberta Smith: ‘Put all those rotten politicians under pressure – that’s what we should do’
By bringing politics into art, the artist Patrick Brill, better known as Bob and Roberta Smith, hopes to bring art into politics and to see art education and democracy firmly on the agenda both in London’s forthcoming mayoral elections and…
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Jim Shaw: The End is Here
This first comprehensive retrospective of Jim Shaw to be held in New York, which includes his own work and his collection of modern-day Americana, verges between the deeply serious and the darkly comedic
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GR Iranna: ‘I treat all forms that I create with equal compassion – whether it is a tree or a carpet’
As he prepares for a solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Bangalore, the artist explains that, despite a move towards more abstract works, the human element in his painting and sculptures is still implicit
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Martino Gamper: British Art Show 8
Now in its eighth year, the British Art Show is the largest and most ambitious touring exhibition of contemporary art in the UK, bringing together emerging artists worth watching with those who have been working for three or four decades.…
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Rachel Maclean: British Art Show 8
Now in its eighth year, the British Art Show is the largest and most ambitious touring exhibition of contemporary art in the UK, bringing together emerging artists worth watching with those who have been working for three or four decades.…
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Ryan Gander: British Art Show 8
Now in its eighth year, the British Art Show is the largest and most ambitious touring exhibition of contemporary art in the UK, bringing together emerging artists worth watching with those who have been working for three or four decades.…
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Laure Prouvost: British Art Show 8
Now in its eighth year, the British Art Show is the largest and most ambitious touring exhibition of contemporary art in the UK, bringing together emerging artists worth watching with those who have been working for three or four decades.…
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Miranda Donovan: Metaphors for Mankind
Hidden deep in subterranean Shoreditch, Miranda Donovan’s multi-layered works reflect the rawness and vulnerability of the contemporary human condition
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Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting
This major retrospective showcases the pioneering work of Italian artist Alberto Burri, who took up painting after being sent to a prisoner of war camp during the second world war
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Marie Kaus: ‘I have this inherent need to leap’
The artist discusses her current show with Adeline de Monseignat at the Cob Gallery, why she did a headstand in one of her works, her need to jump off things, and how she became artist in residence at the UCL…
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Ryan Gander: ‘The best art provokes you without you even realising’
The artist discusses his latest exhibition, Fieldwork at the Lisson Gallery, London, why he put his phone number on the billboard outside, the use of Picasso’s signature by Citroën, and why a child’s reaction to art is so interesting
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Frieze Art Fair 2015
Frieze London 2015 reveals buyers’ anxieties, a swell in the Asian market and an increased focus on live art
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Eileen Hogan: ‘I find out what really matters to me through working from memory’
The artist talks about being taught to draw in two very different ways by Euan Uglow and Frank Auerbach, her fascination with Little Sparta, Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Scottish garden, and her desire to invest visual experience with meaning
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Ciara Phillips: British Art Show 8
Now in its eighth year, the British Art Show is the largest and most ambitious touring exhibition of contemporary art in the UK, bringing together emerging artists worth watching with those who have been working for three or four decades.…
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Jordan Casteel: ‘My perspective is one full of empathy and love’
In her second solo exhibition, the American painter offers a new series of portraits that seeks to reinterpret visions of what it means to be a black man in the US today. Here, she talks about her work
