Sandström’s practice actively interrogates the methods by which viewing initiates and elicits thought and cognition. Her newest body of work consists of a series of portrait-sized paintings hung at equal distance throughout the gallery. As a gestural template, each painting comprises an assortment of brushstrokes impastoed onto intimately-scaled panels colored vividly with swatches of magenta,…
On a lovely and far-wandering walk a thousand useful and usable thoughts occur to me. Shut in at home I would miserably decay and wither. Walking is for me not only healthy, and lovely, it is also of service and useful. A walk advances me professionally, and provides me at the same time also with…
Eloise Ghioni: A Guide to Benefits is the title of your recent solo show at Anat Ebgi in Los Angeles. The press release makes it clear that this is not simply a painting exhibition, but rather that painting is a medium used to compose a complex message. In fact, the archetypal symbols – in this…
Selection of 20 works from Art Basel in order of apparition: Olafur Eliasson, Your space embracer, 2004. Unlimited Art Basel, gallery Tanya Bonakdar New York Eloise Ghioni © all Artists Courtesy all galleries
Eloise Ghioni: When looking at your work, I have the feeling of being immediately thrown into a dilated space where time and space coexist at a slower pace. Everything is indefinite yet clearly perceptible. How would you describe this place? Would it be dreamlike, imaginary, a space for the soul or even something completely different?…
Eloise Ghioni: In one of your texts “De involverade” from 2012, you define painting as a ‘time capsule’, assigning the physical object a transcendental meaning, where semiotically it represents a stargate for a refined and analytical mental process. Through your work I can perceive the profoundness of an infinite world, especially a philosophical and conceptual…
Isa Genzken born in Bad Oldesloe, Germany in 1948, lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Solo show: MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, ‘Isa Genzken. New Works’, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Isa Genzken: Retrospective’, Chicago IL; Museum der Moderne Salzburg, ‘Isa Genzken. Neue Werke’, Salzburg, Austria; The Dallas Museum of Art, ‘Isa…
