Jason Chung Tang Yen: Do we need art fairs? Why? Hans Ulrich Obrist: For me as a curator research never stops, there are many different ways of making research, far most, research of course happens in the studios. I make studio visits everyday, art schools, galleries, musuems, kunsthalle, autonomous project spaces, artist run spaces, and…
The following is a spontaneous dialogue conceived in a theatrical way, where Vincenzo Della Corte embodies the “Past” as a character and Gabriele De Santis the “Future”. Vincenzo Della Corte: Looking deeper at your work, it seems appropriate to mention Gustav Mahler: “Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire”. Does…
May Hands was born in 1990 in Brighton, UK. Fascinated by the urban landscape she puts elements and objects she casually encounters into a new light, lending them – with her very personal language – a light, but never destructive, new dignity. The following conversation aims to understand her practice, her process and how her work is characterized…
Steven Cox was born in 1986 in Scotland and was influenced by the poems of Robert Burns. He is an artist who uses abstraction to investigate the complexity of structural possibilities, as well as the chromatic and material aspects related to the practice of painting. Despite a seemingly “tamed” and focused result behind Cox’s aesthetic…
Jamie Sneider is a performer, former actress, painter, sculptor and many other things. Yet principally she is an artist. The complexity of her artistic personality captured my attention and inspired me to ask her to have the following conversation about her life, process and practice. Vincenzo Della Corte: I would like to begin our conversation…
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…
Vincenzo Della Corte: Hi Ed. For a few weeks now I’ve been seeing images with comic insertions on your FB profile. Is that an ongoing project? Ed Fornieles: Subjectivity is a tough one, we all have it, but what do you do with it. For me it was a matter of survival, me, myself and…
