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…
Tauba Auerbach was born in San Francisco, California, in 1981. Lives and works in New York and San Francisco. Solo show: The New Ambidextrous Universe, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England; A comb, A grating, A wave, A particle, A solid, A field, A mirror, A sundial, A slice, A charge, A hole, A ghost, Standard (Oslo), Oslo,…
Eloise Ghioni: In Fatal Dad, you’ve introduced a new element in the composition of the work: atmosphere. How and when did you develop the idea for interacting with the gallery space? Brian Kokoska: It’s sort of something I’ve been playing with for the past couple of years. But it’s developed into a more integral part…
Eloise Ghioni: At first glance your work could be defined as ‘conceptual’, but I think this is not entirely correct. There is indeed an element of Romanticism that is evident in your works. Romanticism defined as progress in the exploration of things like the irrational, feelings, exoticism or even an escape from reality, which could…
