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Taking sculpture as the focus of her artistic research, French Artist Delphine Coindet engages herself in a non-ceasing reinvention of contemporary sculpture. In the interview, Delphine Coindet shared with us the notions of reality and representation in contemporary sculpture and her interests in natural primary elements as a counterpart of the humankind in the hierarchy of classification of things.
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The Brussels-based French collector Frédéric de Goldschmidt takes on the slightest Parisian snobbism. It was his openness in spirit and his “freshness” in the art world that allowed us to pose some of the “annoying” questions that most collectors wanted to avoid in an interview. “I was quick enough to distinguish what I would appreciate and what I was less convinced of. So it didn’t take me too long to make a purchase. I try to buy art with my instinct without spending too much time on research.”
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Dr. Lars Nittve (*1953), the founding Director of London’s Tate Modern and former Director of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, is now heading the M+ Museum of West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD) in Hong Kong. Spreading out in the 40 hectare wedge-shaped waterfront reclaimed land, the district will feature numerous theatres, concert halls, other performance…
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Mr. Pierre Pradié started collecting contemporary art, principally paintings, in 1995. His first acquisition: a Marc Desgrandchamp. It was the need of a meditative object that impelled him to go back home with nothing but a Desgrandchamp painting which has “marvellously accomplished its mission”. In the interview, Pierre Pradié talks with us about his ideas of collecting and his becoming of a collector.
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En art, l’idée du temps est devenue abstraite, elle existe à la fois dans l’esprit et dans la flânerie. En tant que collectionneur – avocat, Monsieur Pierre Pradié, est-il pris dans ce paradoxe? M. Pradié répond… il y a un effet du temps sur le regard porté sur l’œuvre ; sur sa perception ; un effet du temps passé aboutit à institutionnaliser le regard.
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The Spanish artist, Dora García (*1965, Valladolid), employs for one of her core artistic strategies the disruption of the real and of the conventions that determine both the traditional exhibition of art and some of our everyday behaviours. By questioning the public’s expectations, she re-examines the parameters that define the nature of the artistic experience.
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Peintre et sculpteur, l’un des caractères de l’œuvre de Damien Cabanes tient au fait que l’artiste intègre dans une même démarche le geste du peintre et celui du sculpteur, renvoyant les deux techniques face à face.
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French artist Guillaume Leblon (*1971) creates site-specific installations, sculptures, videos and works on paper which transform our perception of the space and its function. Through a sort of staged presentation of his work, he charges his objects with metaphorical meanings, introducing a certain uneasiness that affects and stimulates our perception.
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Herman Daled, homme à la recherche intellectuelle et à la sensibilité innée, il cherche la connaissance dans la vie et voit la beauté dans la vérité. Il lâche ses émotions et se laisse perplexe. Homme de modestie et d’exigence, il se donne un rôle du post-scriptum tout en vivant sa vie comme l’un des plus…
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Herman Daled, a man of intellectual pursuit and innate sensibility, he seeks knowledge in life and sees beauty in truth. He lets go of his emotions and he allows himself moments of perplex. A man of modesty and exigency, he gives himself a footnote role while living his life as one of the most ardent supporters of conceptual art. Here is our interview with Herman Daled, the collector of objects of knowledge and experience.
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