Category: Interview
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Mariko Mori: ‘The ring is a symbol of oneness, completeness and eternity’
The artist talks about her mission to place site-specific artworks honouring nature on the six habitable continents, and her involvement with the cultural programme of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games
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Francesca Pasquali: ‘I have a contemporary view of art, so I want to draw materials from the world around me’
The Bolognese artist uses everyday materials and plastics to replicate natural folds and textures in a manner akin to the ideas of arte povera. Currently in London for two exhibitions, she speaks to Studio International about her inspirations and aspirations
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Marie Yates: ‘In my view, everything is textual, and a text is visual’
A woman artist working conceptually with the landscape since the 1970s, Yates’s work has often been misinterpreted. A new exhibition at Richard Saltoun will hopefully reengage viewers in the relevant discourse
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Jennifer Wen Ma – interview: ‘Throughout history, humans have been trying to break into or out of a paradise or utopia’
The artist talks about her new installation, Molar, at Cass Sculpture Foundation, created as a place of reflection on a disintegrating utopia
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Claire Shea: ‘We were really keen to look at an expanded definition of sculpture’
Studio International spoke to the foundation’s curatorial director, Claire Shea, about the concepts behind its first international group exhibition, comparing the differing landscape aesthetics and exploring the wider socio-political context in which the artists are working.
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Philip Hunter: ‘I’ve developed an approach to painting that emulates the act of walking through a terrain and exploring it firsthand’
The Australian artists talks about the influence of Sidney Nolan, his most recent body of works, Geophonics, his interest in landscape and in events that happen below the Earth’s crust
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Rana Begum: ‘I love using readymade materials in the work’
Studio International visited Rana Begum in her studio in north-east London to talk to her about her creative process, and the works she has prepared for her first solo UK exhibition at Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art
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Georgiana Houghton: Spirit Drawings
She was an abstract painter out of time, a visionary and a maverick, but Georgiana Houghton was also a medium, whose inspiration came from an unexpected source.
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Yun-Fei Ji: ‘I’m pessimistic about China’
He may use scrolls and work in ink in the millennial-old tradition of Chinese landscape painting, but his themes are contemporary – the environmental destruction caused by vast infrastructure projects in his native country and the forced relocation of its…
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Manolo Valdés: ‘I only like apples if they look like Cezanne’s apples!’
Like a magpie, taking fragments from works of art that he loves and reinterpreting them in new paintings on burlap or as sculptures, Valdés is always on the look out for inspiration. He explains how his entire world is seen…
