Category: Video Interview
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Olga Grotova – interview: ‘I started to think how soil and plants are sometimes the only witnesses’
In her east London studio, Olga Grotova talks about the ‘choreographic’ process and inspiration for dense, mysterious works bearing the imprints of plants and limbs, layered with soil and pigments to reveal hidden narratives and tales of trauma
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Marina Abramović takes over London
‘Four months ago I was in a coma… if I’d died, I’d be the only dead female artist in 250 years showing at the Royal Academy!’
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Pam Evelyn – interview: ‘Now I’m realising that these existential collapses with the painting are actually necessary’
In her studio in Dalston, east London, Pam Evelyn talks about the push and pull of making one of her large-scale abstract paintings and learning to live with its contradictions and tensions
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David Remfry – interview: ‘It’s unprecedented that there were no arguments whatsoever this year’
At 80 years old, David Remfry was just coming to terms with the opportunity to co-ordinate the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition having passed him by. Then he got a phone call from the President …
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Risham Syed – interview: ‘It’s an inward-looking invitation to contemplation’
Syed talks about Each Tiny Drop, her intervention in a city park, as part of Manchester International Festival 2023, that she hopes will help to build communities around a body of water
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Ryan Gander – interview: ‘The stuff outside in the world is way better than anything you’ll find in any museum’
The artist explains why he is giving away free coins at the Manchester International Festival and how he hopes to capture the attention of the 99% of people who aren’t interested in contemporary art
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Tino Sehgal – interview: ‘It’s an invitation to think about skill and what it means in the body and in space’
The enigmatic and publicity-averse artist discusses his new work for Manchester International Festival 2023, gamesmanship, the ‘craft’ skills of cycling, football and musicianship, and how the pandemic has changed human interaction
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Paul Smith – interview: ‘I’d often look up and ask the boss, “Mr Picasso, would you like that?”’
To mark the 50th anniversary of Picasso’s death, the Musée National Picasso, Paris, commissioned a re-presentation of its extensive collection and invited the designer Paul Smith to be its artistic director. Studio International caught up with him at the resulting…
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Dominic Harris – interview: ‘I’m trying to empower the viewer to assume a larger force within the artworks’
At his latest exhibition, Feeding Consciousness, at the Halcyon Gallery, the British artist discussed his inspirations and the artistic processes behind the interactive digital artworks on show
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Shanti Panchal – interview: ‘It’s a meditative process, a layering of colour, sometimes 10 or 15 layers’
The artist discusses the enduring power of painting, the evolution of his watercolour technique, the influence of his childhood landscape on palette and subject, and the importance of persistence
