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Interviews

Jan 302012
Q&A with Israeli Artist Anan Tzuckerman

Your name : Anan Tzuckerman Date of birth : May 24, 1982 Place of birth : Israel Residence : Israel Website : Galerie Christian Ehrentraut, Berlin *All images courtesy the artist & Galerie Christian Ehrentraut   Artist’s statement: I’ll do my best in front of your blazing gaze. After all is left just a symbolic superfluous. MV – Favourite movie(s) & director(s): All films by: Harmony Korine, Woody Allen, Peter Greenaway, Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Continue …

Jan 052012
Q&A with Dutch Artist Jeroen Evertz

Your name: Jeroen Evertz (1973) Born: Trintelen (NL) Lives in: Maastricht (NL) Artist’s statement – ‘I like to remember things my way, not necessarily the way they happened’ – Fred Madison Because of often contradictory interests, it is hard to decide what is real and who decides what is real nowadays: advertisements, politics, technology, nature or we? I would like to add my works to this list. As a research to the simultaneous existence of Continue …

Q&A with Egyptian-American Poet Yahia Lababidi (VIDEO)

Your name :  Yahia Lababidi (1973), Aphorist, Poet, Essayist Place of birth : Cairo, Egypt Residence :  Washington, D.C. Artist’s statement – Looking to use words, to lose words.  To harness the spirit that swims through them.  To get words to echo our silences.  Interested in art that triggers an ecstatic moment, and the role of the artist as secular mystic. MV – Favourite book(s) & author(s) – Nietzsche, Rilke, Kafka, Dostoevsky, Wilde. The ones Continue …

Dec 222011
Q&A with Dutch Artist Bas de Wit

Bas de Wit (1977) Born in: Budel, The Netherlands Lives in: Maastricht, The Netherlands Dealer: Figge von Rosen Galerie (Berlin/Cologne) Artist’s statement – Making monuments to the huge fiasco of your very own enthusiasm MV – Favourite movie(s) & director(s) – My Top 5000 List begins with:  Stanley Kubrick (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest); Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove), Mary Poppins (the movie), Federico Fellini; Todd Solonz (The NeverEnding Story), Roy Andersson (Songs From the Second Continue …

Q&A with Spanish Photorealist Painter Bernardo Torrens

Bernardo Torrens (1957) Born & Lives in: MADRID, SPAIN Dealer: Bernaducci Meisel Gallery, NYC Artist’s statement:  My work is about the human being. The deepest part of the human being. Any of my subjects tries to be the representation of the Humanity. Also in some cases they pretend to be the representation of a group of all people. My work is also deeply connected with my life and circumstances. Weight, intensity, sincerity, reflection are key Continue …