Posts Tagged ‘Contemporary Art’
Jeff Weber
by Alison Hugill // Sept. 29, 2016
Self-effacing artists are hard to find these days. In the history of photographic theory, critics overzealously claimed for the medium an outward looking gaze that…[read on]
Chiharu Shiota
by Louisa Elderton // Sept. 15, 2016
I first entered the Prenzlauer Berg studio of Chiharu Shiota one year ago. How quickly a year passes. I took off my shoes at her request: blue or grey slippers? Blue…[read on]
Katie Paterson
by Alison Hugill // Aug. 15, 2016
Katie Paterson might be a magician. She has the impressive ability to mobilize high level astronomers, space agencies, biologists, arborists, architects, and…[read on]
David Thorpe
by Alice Bardos // July 25, 2016
“I feel the building and I are quite in sympathy with one another,” explains the lean and genial artist, David Thorpe, in his Moabit studio. “It feels soft as if…[read on]
Birte Bosse
by Julianne Cordray // July 12, 2016
Along one wall and spanning a corner of her studio, Birte Bosse stages small-scale exhibitions in order to visualize interactions between works,…[read on]
Katja Strunz
by Alison Hugill // May 25, 2016
The geometrical shapes and subdued colours of Katja Strunz’s works are aesthetically consonant with her high-ceilinged, brightly lit studio in Kreuzberg, as if they…[read on]
Body // Illustrating the Ordinary: An Interview with Sally Nixon
Interview by TL Andrews // Apr. 30, 2016
Madonna invited women to “strike a pose” in the early 90s, but like an irresponsible hypnotist, she seems to have forgotten to mention when it’s okay to stop. Sally Nixon’s set of illustrations seem count…[read on]