Category: Interview
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Peter Wächtler: ‘It’s a strange mixture of respect, and total disrespect’
The Berlin and Brussels-based artist discusses the benefits of repetition, grappling with tradition, and being an extra in a film with Tom Cruise
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Helaine Blumenfeld: ‘Beauty has no real meaning any more’
The sculptor talks about her ideas of beauty and pain, and how she learned to express these through a visual language
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Joel Shapiro: ‘As an artist, you are synthesising the stuff around you in a way that engages you’
The influential American sculptor, now in the fifth decade of his career, brings out his wood wall reliefs from the late 1970s for their first survey exhibition, at Dominique Lévy in New York, along with a new installation
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Athena Papadopoulos: ‘Art is a kind of alchemy: turning shit into gold’
Drawing inspiration from her childhood and her womanising, fur-dealer father, Papadopoulos works across painting, drawing, textiles and collage to create messy, domestic installations using materials such as bedsheets, tablecloths, red wine, hair dye and lipstick
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Tim Benson: ‘I wanted my work to have more meaning’
The artist talks about storytelling through portraiture, and the human face of Ebola
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James Wilkes: ‘Mind-wandering has became a productive way for us to disrupt that idea of there being rest and the opposite of rest’
The exhibition Rest & its discontents at the Mile End Art Pavilion, London, is one of a number of events born from the works of Hubbub, a collective of multidisciplinary practitioners investigating busy-ness and rest. Wilkes, a poet, writer and…
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John Akomfrah – interview: ‘The question of discourse is absolutely central’
The artist explains the inspirations for his new split-screen film, Auto da Fé, and talks about the importance of the Black Audio Film Collective, of which he was a founding member
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Nicolás Herrera: ‘this mural is about life’
Studio International travelled to Cuenca, Ecuador, to talk to Nicolás Herrera about his new work, El Jardín de las Mujeres, or The Garden of Women, a sculptural mural at La Casa de la Provincia, where it is permanently installed. It…
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Cecilia Brunson: ‘In the case of Willys de Castro, it’s also a perceptual and mental game’
The Latin American art dealer explains the ethos of her Bermondsey gallery and the importance of the Brazilian neo-concrete artist, Willys de Castro
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Carla Rapoport: ‘I like to think we’re the Elvis of the art world’
The founder of the Lumen Prize says Elvis brought gospel and black music into the mainstream, and she hopes the annual Lumen awards will do the same for global digital art
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