June 2010
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artist: Dave Kinsey
Kinsey is no stranger to the art world. He’s been a staple in the L.A. scene for over a decade, but has also exhibited in galleries throughout the country and overseas. And while he is known best for his large-scale street installations, primarily his influential “Unlearn” campaign, Kinsey’s work has begun to change in recent years. He’s distanced himself from his street art, at least for...
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WatchDave Kinsey interviewd by on-point.be in Brussels in August 2009
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takashi murakami: art is unnecessary*****
Mako Wakasa: I would like to ask you about Poku (Pop + otaku) and Super Flat paintings as well as your view of the present and future Japan and the relationship between your art and Japanese culture. […] In fact, it is a new phenomenon that otaku has drawn public attention, while you started paying attention to otaku a long time ago.
Takashi Murakami: […] The primary reason that...
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artist: Wilhelm Sasnal
‘Art should have an emotional-intellectual dimension. Art involves a game with the viewer, with conventions and with yourself.’ Wilhelm Sasnal
Wilhelm Sasnal makes paintings in response to the abundance of imagery that emerged in Eastern Europe after the fall of communism. No two Sasnal paintings ever look alike: he makes pop paintings, naturalistic paintings and...
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art market: street art in Hong Kong
[…] Recently, several galleries have sprouted up across Hong Kong with street art on their agendas. The international street art scene is surfacing in Hong Kong with new-found momentum. “For a long time street art [in Hong Kong] was underground. You couldn’t really find it in Central,” says Alina Dickey who opened No Borders Gallery in 2009 with her husband Bill. The couple...
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artist: Gus Van Sant
The Academy Award–winning director Gus Van Sant is well known for his unparalleled vision in cinema, and for his original screenplays. An accomplished artist as well, he is debuting two bodies of photographic work in Oregon this month. “Cut-ups” opens at PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, on May 5, and “One Step Big Shot: Portraits by Andy Warhol and Gus Van Sant” will be on view at the...
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artist: Scott Campbell
For four years, famed tattoo artist Scott Campbell has been marking up high-profile clients in his Williamsburg shop Saved Tattoo. […] As a “specialist in skulls, flames, naked ladies, portraits of deceased loved ones,” his regular rate is $1,000/hour.
Scott Campbell was born and raised in a fishing camp, perched alongside a muddy bayou in rural Louisiana. With a clever knack for...
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article: what is "what is art?"
Last week I was invited to take part in a late-night chat show about art on German TV, along with Sabrina van der Ley (director of the Berlin art fair, and soon curator at Hamburg Kunsthalle), art historian Wolfgang Ullrich, and painter Markus Lüpertz (who came with his silver-skull-topped walking stick). On the occasion of Damien Hirst’s Sotheby’s coup, the topic was: ‘What is art?’ Now, that’s...
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art market: China - a dummy's guide
For many, the words “Chinese art” create mixed feelings. Admittedly, contemporary Chinese paintings appear to have rebounded from the economic funk of 2008 and are selling faster and for higher prices than ever.
Emerging Chinese artist Jia Aili’s “On the Fields of Hope,” which sold for US$248,677 at an April auction at Sotheby’s this year. Beijing-based artist Zeng...
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artist: Pierre Mornet
Pierre Mornet is a French illustrator represented by Marlena Agency. The subjects of Mornet’s images tend to be beautiful but somewhat haunting young women with dark hair in settings that evoke pre-World War I symbolism. But we’re far from Mark Ryden’s “goth-esque” heroines in style : sometimes we’re looking at textures of paint and color that recall the...
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cai guo-qiang: peasant da vincis*****
Inaugural exhibition for Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai may 4 – july 25, 2010 Peasant Da Vincis explores human creativity, invention, and their social impact featuring ambitious inventions by Chinese peasants including homemade flying machines, submarines, and robots. Peasant da Vincis explores the subject of human creativity, the unquenchable universal desire to innovate in pursuit of modernity,...
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“The value of a work resides precisely in what it is not.”
– Pablo Picasso, An Idea Is A Beginning Point And No More…
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artist: Sam Weber
Sam Weber is an illustrator who, by his own admission, finds it very difficult to sum up his style. “I have no idea how to describe it without sounding like a total moron,” he laughs. “It was a fairly organic development. My time in graduate school was pretty unrestricted, which allowed me a lot of time to explore my own visual vocabulary and ideas about image-making. In the end, the...
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“Do you know that when I painted my first guitars I had never had one in my...”
– Pablo Picasso, An Idea Is A Beginning Point And No More…, 1945 Excerpt from an interview with Andre Warnod published as ‘En peinture tout n’est que signe, nous dit Picasso”, Arts (Paris), 1945 