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An artist’s studio visit to Ahmad Fuad for a self-confessed “unstructured” discussion, which ranged from discussing the artist’s loyalty to long-term projects, to his views on political art. Ahmad Fuad began by welcoming an unstructured discussion as a useful tool for his own thinking, and a means of mental refreshment.
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When asked about how they get inspired, artist Michael Elmgreen – who is one half of the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset – says, “It’s always easier to get inspiration from something that is not in your own field. For example, it’s more interesting for someone who’s making wedding bouquets to be inspired by a…
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Xavier Veilhan & Christian Marclay on Studio Venezia — What if Dadaist and constructivist artist Kurt Schwitters was living today, and he had a knack for music? He would have definitely built his own recording studio in the style of the Merzbau. This kind of architecture is part of the “merz” —a nonsense word Schwitters assigned to his personal process, philosophy, and lifestyle.
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“Artists are violent people. I will debate that point with any artist who claims they are not violent. I think that artists are deeply violent because we try to stay so honest to ourselves. That honesty kills us”, said the Delhi-based, US-educated artist Vishal K. Dar (b. 1976) whose installation work Maruts – Storm Dieties (2016) is currently…
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古典樂出身的楊嘉輝，半隻腳在音樂廳；半隻腳在白盒子，遊刃於五線譜，但更醉心於突破框框，以自創的音樂系統自由遊走於聲音與視覺，建制內外也是他的表演場地。
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蔣志在魔金石空間的最新展覽「注定」，其錄像裝置在同一個空間中放了兩個螢幕呈現：一邊是一對男女幾近自虐式的身體探索；另一邊卻是荒無一人的陌生星球，分別了精神和象徵兩個世界。放在螢幕前的LED燈箱，滾動著文字，成為了解讀錄像的一條線索。
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Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1977, Shumon Ahmed came to international attention in 2014 with his photographic series Metal Graves, presented first at the Dhaka Art Summit in a show B-desh curated by French curator Deepak Anand, then at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India curated by Jitish Kallat. The public soon discovered the multi-facets of Ahmed’s…
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An artist operates within the visual realm by using sound as a material to make visible the otherwise invisible, Haroon Mirza upsets the distinction between sound, noise and music while pushing art towards the periphery of music. In the interview, Mirza talks about his new projects and shares with us his concepts of sound, noise and music in relation to the physical space and materials.
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The Prince of Charm masters the technique of persuasion. Since his first appearance in the international art scene in the mid-1990s, Francesco Vezzoli (*1971, Brescia, Italy) has successfully enlisted celebrities to take part at his mega-spectacles: he cast Milla Jovovich, Courtney Love and Helen Mirren in a trailer for an non-existent remix of the X-rated…
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In art, it’s important to have two things: Curiosity and Ambition.Loris Gréaud (*1979) has both, and he lives them up splendidly. His child-like obsession with objects and knowledge leads him to a desire to fuse different disciplines and practices in a manner that is characterized as “both futuristic and utopian”. A candy without taste, a…
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