8 Rules for Writing Fiction: Heman Chong on Influence and Appropriation ON RECORD is a series of dialogues with contemporary artists about the ideas and influences that inspire their works. ON RECORD #1 was conducted and recorded using an onlineView More >
Interviews
Aki Sasamoto
Installation/Performance as Hadron By Natsuko Odate Performance still from the installation/performance Secrets of My Mother’s Child (2009). Photo Arturo Vidich, courtesy the artist. Aki Sasamoto is on the move. You could say this is only natural given that she’s aView More >
Wilhelm Sasnal: Intro
Born in 1972 in Tarnów, Poland, Wilhelm Sasnal is among a new generation of contemporary artists who emerged following the country’s transition from Communist to democratic rule in 1989. He is best known for making paintings that combine elements ofView More >
Wilhelm Sasnal: Part I
I. Like Everyone Born in the 1940s, My Mother Was a Fan of Elvis Wilhelm Sasnal on the role of chance in documenting the world, and the connections between film, Land Art and painting. Installation view of Untitled (2007), 16mmView More >
Wilhelm Sasnal: Part II
II. Silent Landscapes Begin to Speak Wilhelm Sasnal discusses visualizing history and the ‘ethos of painting.’ Moscice 1 (2005), oil on canvas, 100 x 140 cm. Courtesy collection Fundação de Serralves – Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto. ART iT: ConsideringView More >
Wilhelm Sasnal: Part III
III. Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Your Grievances Wilhelm Sasnal addresses the influence of music on his artistic development and walking the line between the trivial and significant. Untitled (2001), acrylic on canvas, 153 x 180 cm. ARTView More >
Wilhelm Sasnal: Essay
Wilhelm Sasnal: Overturning the Everyday By Akiko Kasuya Untitled (The Concert) (2009), oil on canvas, 70 x 55 cm. Wilhelm Sasnal was born in 1972 in Tarnów, a small city just outside Poland’s former capital, Kraków. After studying architecture atView More >
Henk Visch and Nishizawa Ryue: part 2
It’s here already. The only thing you have to do is agree with it. < Part 1 Horizontal/vertical/revolving: the artist and architect’s senses of space HV: I went to Naoshima five years ago, alone, and I was amazed when IView More >
Henk Visch and Nishizawa Ryue: part 1
It’s here already. The only thing you have to do is agree with it. Henk Visch is known as a reclusive sculptor, and an artist with a gift for subtly manipulating the properties of spaces. Nishizawa Ryue meanwhile is aView More >
Morimura Yasumasa: part 1
A desire to revisit the 20th century, ascertaining something along the way Morimura Yasumasa has carved out an unconventional niche in the realm of self-portraiture that has included embedding himself in some of art history’s most famous paintings, and transformingView More >