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…
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…
Vincenzo Della Corte: I would like to start by mentioning your ongoing exhibition in Aalborg, at Kunsthal NORD, titled “We Are All Workers”. Why did you choose this title? And how did you conceive of the exhibition in relation to how it would be articulated. Mikkel Carl: We Are All Workers is written with capital…
