Read More | 28.06.18 | Article by Lillian Wilkie | Art, culture | MM14
“Some of us are so obsessed with the past that we die of it. It is the attitude of the poet who never finds the lost heaven and it is really the situation of artists who work for a reason that nobody can quite grasp. They might want to reconstruct something of the past to exorcise it. It is that the past for certain people has such a hold and such a beauty…” — Louise Bourgeois
Read More | 28.06.18 | Article by Olu Odukoya | Art, culture, interview | MM14
“I would say that I use the names as a tool, or as a shield. So I don’t take on that persona: it isn’t really about my reinventing myself, like The Great Gatsby or something, so that I become Spartacus Chetwynd. It might be like that for some people who use a pseudonym, or it might look like that from the outside; but to me, from the inside, it’s more like an incantation, or a spell. Or it’s like a weapon, or a coping mechanism.”
Read More | 28.06.18 | Article by Bruce Hooton | Art, culture, interview | MM14
“I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It’s all right, but it’s already done and I want to do something new.”
Read More | 28.06.18 | Article by Michele Robecchi | Art, culture, interview | MM13
“The idea then evolved into something else – to make a sequence of images that would simultaneously include both the front and the back. It all happened by chance. And then I started to work out the concept more precisely, and to apply it to other subjects — photographs of aeroplanes, portraits, and the kind of images that normally show up in vintage newspapers.”
Read More | 28.06.18 | Article by Philippa Snow | Art, culture, interview | MM13
“Then I started thinking, what would be the one object that would contrast with them the most? So I thought about a body part. Actually, I thought about a head, which I thought would be powerful enough, and would contrast with the coldness of the structure.”
Read More | 27.06.18 | Article by Todd Coles | Art, behind the scenes, interview, video | MM6
Read More | 28.05.18 | Article by Michele Robecchi | Art, culture, interview | MM12
“In a way, I was hoping it would be more painful and that it would extract more from me. Weirdly, in the end, it was kind of numbing. I didn’t make it to be cathartic –I didn’t expect to resolve anything.”
