Tag: Conceptual art
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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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The boys the girls and the political
The Lisson Gallery’s summer show takes a linguistic turn while tapping into the trends of the networked age. Studio International talked to its curators, Hana Noorali and Lynton Talbot, and discovered the meaning of the ‘metamodern’
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Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971
The message of Yoko Ono’s art has always been world peace. In her performances, installations and books, she invites the audience’s active involvement to make them understand her art not only on an intellectual, but also a visceral level
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Allora & Calzadilla: Intervals
In this exhibition of new and recent projects, Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla explore the history and origins of human music not only as a means to define the boundaries between man and animal, but also to communicate across their…
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Paul Chan: ‘Times have changed, and I have changed, and I wanted something else’
Paul Chan is a versatile artist and writer, working in video, installation, publishing and the internet, whose work probes our assumptions about the nature of visuality and visual art
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Hadieh Shafie: ‘I take things from my culture and marry them to my western art education’
Hadieh Shafie makes transformative objects that hover between painting and sculpture, integrating her roots in Persian culture and her training in the west
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Reiner Ruthenbeck
In this major retrospective at the Serpentine Gallery, the works of Reiner Ruthenbeck – in particular, his overturned furniture – have raised that old question, But is it art? Happily, the answer is yes.
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Michelle Grabner interview: ‘My family is an important part of my life as an artist’
American conceptual artist Michelle Grabner talks about how she combines her roles as artist, curator, teacher and writer, the importance of her family to her art, and why she stays rooted in the Midwest
