Author: jaywp
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Tadaaki Kuwayama: ‘Here is only the art itself’
Japanese-born artist Tadaaki Kuwayama recounts his refusal to dictate how spectators should view his work, his visual dialogue with Frank Stella, and the desire to void his art of meaning
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Wayne Thiebaud: 1962 to 2017
The quintessentially American artist Wayne Thiebaud is now 96 years old, and this impressive exhibition shows an array of his still lifes, portraits and landscapes from across the seven decades of his career
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Samson Young: Songs for Disaster Relief – Venice Biennale 2017
Samson Young’s Venice Biennale collateral event for Hong Kong explores the disquieting cocktail of components that comprise the charity single. He talks about the power of music, fake news and what our cultural products say about human nature
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Calder: Hypermobility 2017
Drawing on its extensive collection, this small but exquisite show floated by the Whitney Museum of American Art presents Alexander Calder’s balancing act as a modernist revolution whose visual vocabulary gave art another dimension
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Jay Heikes: ‘I’ve always loved the reminder that the natural world has the upper hand’
Minneapolis-based artist Jay Heikes discusses his experimental approach to materials, the significance of music within his practice, and the role of transcendence in contemporary life
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Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave
This exhibition brings to life the story of the Japanese artist Hokusai’s later, and arguably greatest, years
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Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction
As we see from the Barbican’s science fiction exhibition, the genre has consistently looked to the future as a means to extrapolate and accentuate the hopes and fears of the present
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Akram Zaatari: Against Photography – An Annotated History of the Arab Image Foundation
Searching for alternative historical and cultural narratives, Zaatari reveals the contents of the Arab Image Foundation through documentary film, photography and art, bringing new readings to the collection
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Abou Farman: ‘I want the tragic to become an acceptable space’
Abou Farman, who co-wrote Icaros: A Vision with Leonor Caraballo, talks about the film, which is based on Caraballo’s exploration of shamanism after she was diagnosed with cancer, and coming to terms with her death
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Tom Phillips: ‘I’m still reading books. Nothing changes and everything changes’
Tom Phillips talks about his love of words, the human drive to make marks and the more spiritual side of his work
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Joseph Kosuth: ‘I was always interested in the limits of language and there’s no better way of demonstrating that than with definitions of colours’
On the occasion of his curated installation at Mazzoleni, Joseph Kosuth, the pioneer of conceptual art, speaks to Studio International about his insistence that art must question and elicit meaning, the impoverishment of art’s critical bite under market domination, and…
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Frank Quitely: The Art of Comics
The Glaswegian comic-book superstar Frank Quitely is celebrated in this new exhibition of his famous work
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Jenny Crompton: ‘I enjoy sitting in the work for hours. It becomes a meditation’
Australian artist Jenny Crompton explains how she made her installation Sea Country Spirits, and talks about discovering her Wadawurrung heritage and how it changed her practice as she moved away from man-made materials to using materials she collects from the…
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Florian Hecker: Synopsis
Florian Hecker manipulates digital sound and our perception of it in this installation commissioned for Tramway
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Lee Lozano: c 1962
Merging human organs and household objects, Lee Lozano’s early miniatures are erotic and unsettling in equal parts
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Nathaniel Mellors and Erkka Nissinen: The Aalto Natives – Venice Biennale 2017
Mellors and Nissinen represent Finland at this year’s Venice Biennale. They discuss handmade puppets, homemade film sets, creation myths involving eggs, the flimsy narratives on which national identities are built, and whether you have to love something in order to…
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Joyce Pensato: FORGETTABOUT IT
Batman, Donald Duck and Disney-style mice all loom large in the US artist Joyce Pensato’s second exhibition at the Lisson Gallery, And, although the works, all from 2017, are well-worn territory for her, she demonstrates a subtle shift in style
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Geta Brătescu: The Studio – A Tireless, Ongoing Space
Camden Arts Centre’s exhibition provides an overview of Geta Brătescu’s artistic career and including drawing, collage, video, sculpture and photography
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Greg Campbell: ‘I’d like people to get to know my friend a little through this film’
Greg Campbell talks about his film Hondros, which premiered at the year’s Tribeca Film Festival, and about his long friendship with its subject, the photojournalist Chris Hondros, who was shot and killed in Libya in 2011
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Elger Esser: ‘Beauty is not important; it’s a logical result in my opinion’
After his recent solo exhibition at Parasol Unit in London, Elger Esser talks about the relationship between Lebanon and Syria, having more in common with JMW Turner than Caspar David Friedrich, and how we are programmed to view landscapes as…
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Learning from Athens: Documenta 14 (Part one, Athens)
Despite multiple curatorial concepts, the first part of Documenta 14 is dominated by the decision to hold it in Athens. Beyond the political decisions and curatorial rhetoric, the exhibition is an ambitious and extensive city-wide production that can be read…
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Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti’s scrawny figures pulse with kinetic energy. This new retrospective at Tate Modern shows his versatility, celebrating his passion for materials other than the bronzes for which he is famed, giving a greater breadth and depth to the understanding…
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Mithu Sen: ‘I constantly change my mediums so the market will not be able to trap me’
Indian artist Mithu Sen has a quicksilver practice that is difficult to categorise or maintain as a singular narrative. This, she says, is intentional – it is her effort to defy the demands of the market
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Georgia Horgan: ‘Confident, working women were a threat to the social order’
Georgia Horgan talks about her recent exhibition, All Whores are Jacobites, and how she became intrigued by the lives of three women whose lives were linked by themes of prostitution, textile work and protest
