Tag: Conceptual art
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Kimsooja: Meta-Painting
Ambiguous, talismanic, intangible, meticulous – Kimsooja’s immersive installations explore themes of being, non-being and coming into being
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Goran Trbuljak – interview: ‘It is a kind of painting – a painting that was created by refraining from painting’
The conceptual artist and film-maker explains why seeing Neil Armstrong walk on the moon had such a strong influence on him, why he is so reluctant to define his work as painting – and why he once spent his Sundays…
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Irina Nakhova – interview: ‘I want my works to provoke curiosity’
The Russian artist talks about her latest exhibition, Museum on the Edge, at the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, and explains why she sees art not as a profession, but rather as her way of being
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Programmed: Rules, Codes and Choreographies in Art, 1965-2018
From Nam June Paik’s 1960s experiments to alter images on a TV screen to Ian Cheng’s use of chatbots and Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki’s comments on celebrity-making through software that tracks Twitter feeds for reality TV shows, this exhibition…
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Joseph Kosuth: ‘I was always interested in the limits of language and there’s no better way of demonstrating that than with definitions of colours’
On the occasion of his curated installation at Mazzoleni, Joseph Kosuth, the pioneer of conceptual art, speaks to Studio International about his insistence that art must question and elicit meaning, the impoverishment of art’s critical bite under market domination, and…
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Thinking Pictures: Moscow Conceptual Art in the Dodge Collection
As viewers, we witness Moscow conceptualism caught in a perpetual bind between the Romantic obscurity of the “inside” and the unattainable transparency of the “outside.” For us, then, Moscow conceptualism remains incurably Romantic
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Peter Liversidge: ‘My work is solely about engagement’
The artist talks about the significance of his “proposals”, and discusses his recent project at Tate Modern involving a 500-strong choral performance, and his two new shows in the US
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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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Emilia Kabakov: ‘The idea behind this work is that reality can never been seen straight on, but is always obscured either on purpose or by necessity’
Emilia Kabakov, who collaborates with her husband, Russian conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov, talks about working together, their exhibition at Pace Gallery, and other projects they are planning
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Yevgeniy Fiks: ‘Any utopia is queer by nature, because it takes you from the present and directs you to a strange time and place’
Artist and curator Yevgeniy Fiks talks about his work with curator Olga Kopenkina for the exhibition Future Queer Perfect, which looks at the utopian aspirations of Soviet experience and its connection to artistic and cultural concerns
