Tag: Blain Southern
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Michael Simpson – interview: ‘Every single painting involves an element of fear’
The artist discusses how going to a football match at the age of seven inspired him to start painting, his dislike of organised religion, his rigorous approach to his art and his current new work at Blain Southern
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Rachel Howard – interview: ‘I like to contradict myself, trip myself up’
The artist talks about her interest in madness and the edge of things and the five large-scale paintings in her show l’Appel du Vide, which opens this month at Blain Southern in New York
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Jake and Dinos Chapman: The Disasters of Everyday Life
Among the casts of suicide vests, it is the Chapman brothers’ reworked etchings of Goya that hold the interest, drawing us in to view more closely the horrors of war
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The beautiful book: art publishing today
Art books have a special appeal: they are beautiful, collectable objects that are a pleasure to hold and be surrounded by. But the world of art publishing has changed beyond recognition in the past 20 years
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Rachel Howard: Folie à Deux
Blain|Southern, London 12 October–22 December 2011
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Marius Bercea
Studio International spoke to Bercea about the medium of painting and its relationship to history, time and geographic context, questioning if and how the Cluj School can be defined
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Bill Viola: The Quintet of the Unseen
In Bill Viola’s piece The Quintet of the Unseen, exhibiting at Blain Southern, one can see a similar attention to detail as that which is apparent in the plays of Samuel Beckett. But where Beckett favours an austere set, Viola…
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