Category: Interview
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Bao Pei, interview
Intersection: International Art and Culture Arthur M Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University, Beijing 27 May – 27 August 2018
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Jacob Hashimoto: ‘The history of art is full of cultural appropriators. I’m one, too’
The artist talks about The Eclipse, an installation comprising thousands of paper kites, and Never Comes Tomorrow, which references cosmology and history and is covered in hundreds of political stickers
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Ardan Özmenoğlu: ‘For me, repetition is the only way that you can reach perfection’
The Turkish artist known for her distinctive works with Post-it notes talks about how she turns them into 3D paintings, her love of repetition, political humour, and her latest project, to turn a soap factory into an art space
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Leonor Antunes: ‘I’m interested in ancient ways of doing things’
The sculptor talks about learning traditional crafts, the Smithsons’ Solar Pavilion, creating an exhibition for Mexico, and how her work resembles choreography
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Henry Skerritt and Margo Smith talk about the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection
With more than 1,900 works, the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia is the largest collection of Indigenous art in the US. Here, Margo Smith, the director, and Henry Skerritt, the curator, talk about the museum and…
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Mark Wallinger: ‘I’m reversing what happens at Madame Tussauds’
The Human Figure in Space returns this Turner Prize-winning British artist to his longstanding interest in the photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Here, Wallinger reflects on spectatorship and the mirrored world
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David Chipperfield: ‘Architecture shouldn’t exist on its own. There is no reason for it to exist as an independent thing, except for the glory of the architect’
Fresh from his transformation of the Royal Academy of Arts, David Chipperfield talks about architecture as a form of diagnostics, assisting the life and culture of its inhabitants, and about staying out of the way of the art
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Alicia Kopf: ‘My idea is to appropriate polar history to a present-day story of survival’
Catalan artist Alicia Kopf has won acclaim for her novel Brother in Ice, which sits at the pinnacle of a cycle of artistic projects about the Arctic and the Antarctic. Here, she talks about her own epic story
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Teresa Lawton: Tipping the Balance
Lawton’s paintings are inspired by her love of Dorset, where she explore the shapes and colours of the landscape, always in awe, she says ‘of the silence and mystery of nature’
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Shelley Himmelstein: Soccerscapes – Fifa World Cup Series; Michael Sorgatz: Kaleidoscope Dreams
Gallery director Randall Harris explains how this double show came about, while Himmelstein talks about how she captures the movement and energy of the players and the excitement of fans in her soccerscapes and Sorgatz discusses his mesmerising dreamscapes
