Category: Interview
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‘Oswaldo Vigas said he found the root of his work in ancient culture’
At an exhibition of Oswaldo Vigas’s work in Bogotá, his son Lorenzo talked about his father’s love of people, how mythology and witchcraft shaped his output, and his friendship with Picasso
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Larry Bell: ‘You have to trust what you’re doing, to trust the work’
The artist discusses his latest solo exhibition, at the White Cube gallery, the spontaneity that occurs during the making process, why he chose to stop painting, and going to tea with Marcel Duchamp
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Charles Lim: ‘It’s very easy to see the sea as a sublime space where you can even find God’ – Venice Biennale 2015
With his sailing background, Charles Lim explains, he sees the sea as ‘just an office’. His 10-year-old, 10-part project, Sea State, explores the biophysical, political and psychic contours of Singapore, which this year celebrates the 50th anniversary of its independence
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HeHe: ‘Pylons are quite beautiful structures in themselves. They’re like little angels’
Helen Evans, half of the artistic duo known as HeHe, speaks about their current work for the Bruges Triennial, and how it fits with their themes of the environment and urban space
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Richard Long: Time and Space
Fifteen years after Richard Long’s last exhibition of any scale in his native Bristol, he is the Arnolfini’s showcase artist during the city’s 2015 European Green Capital celebrations. Director Kate Brindley speaks to Studio International about the exhibition
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Charles Gaines: ‘I am dealing in the area of how meaning is formed’
US conceptual artist and educator Charles Gaines talks about why he believes art should be interested in knowledge ahead of pleasure, being influenced by Charlie Parker and John Coltrane, and why he contests his students rather than nurturing them
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Toni Scott: ‘People don’t understand that what’s in the past is still with us today’
The California-based multimedia artist Toni Scott talks about how, in DNA – Bloodlines and the Family of Mankind, she has woven her own personal family history with the universal history of African Americans and Native Americans in “a celebration of…
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Eloise Hawser: ‘This machine is all about contact and resistance’
The artist explains the complex mechanisms of a cinema organ and its colour-changer to Studio International with ease and clarity
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Hannah Collins: ‘Most of my work is a line between culture and the world’
The British artist known for her large, unframed photographs talks about her latest exhibition at the Camden Arts Centre in London, photographing a hut where Nelson Mandela lived, investigating civil rights in the American south and spending time with tribal…
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Alinka Echeverria: ‘As soon as you lift up the camera, you make the other person vulnerable’
The photographer talks about her work looking at political and religious beliefs, including a visit to South Sudan following its independence and meeting Nelson Mandela’s prison warder from Robben Island
