Tag: painting
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Unearthed: Photography’s Roots
The first major exhibition of photography at the Dulwich Picture Gallery uses nature as a lens to examine the science, history and culture of the medium, while asking what is a ‘picture’ in the 21st century?
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Christine and Jennifer Binnie – interview
Artist sisters Christine and Jennifer Binnie talk about their joint curation of an exhibition from the Towner Collection, returning to East Sussex, where they were raised, and life and work during lockdown
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Jim Dine – interview: ‘I never stop looking. I never stop examining. I never stop inventing from what I see’
Jim Dine talks about his six-decade-long career, his various mediums of expression, his use of Pinocchio as a metaphor for art, and how he will never give up on a work
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Katharina Grosse – interview: ‘My eyes are my most important tools’
Katharina Grosse talks about the importance of layering, colour and bodily intelligence in her painting practice, and her work on show at the Fondazione Merz in Turin, which is inspired by the medieval tale of Perceval and the Black Knight
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Andrew Litten – interview: ‘I like the feeling that my work is emotionally varied and full of raw nerves’
The artist talks about his concern with expressing human vulnerability and encouraging empathy and connection
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Esther Teichmann: ‘My work explores our relationship to the maternal, thinking about the mother as first lover’
The artist talks about the inspiration of watery places, lockdown at her parents’ home and how motherhood has changed her as an artist
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Matthew Burrows – interview: ‘I think as an artist and I make as a painter’
The artist talks about his strategies for thinking about painting, how his long-distance running is integral to his work, and the unexpectedly huge success of his #ArtistSupportPledge idea
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Carmen Neely – interview: ‘I’m interested in the process of what is lost and gained in translation’
The artist talks about the role of collecting, (re)creating characters and identities, translation, and the seriousness of play in her practice
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Albert Reuss
The Jewish painter escaped Nazi persecution in his native Austria and moved to Cornwall, but his haunting art is testament to the mental torment that pursued him
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Robert Holyhead – interview: ‘I see each painting as a single, emerged gesture’
The artist discusses his new work, No Movement, No Colour, at Galerie Max Hetzler, London, and why, despite months of meticulous preparation, each oil painting must be finished in a single day
