Artist Nam June Paik was a leading video artist and helped to bridge the gap between art and technology with his experimental work…
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Art Process: Pope. L
The subject of Pope.L’s work confronts a serious social concern. It exists across the world and it’s ongoing. He addresses this problem of inequality in the urban environment as…
Art Process: Jonathan Meese
He does it so casually, quickly drawing a cross here, a swastika there and then a few random dashes, dots or lines. It looks like he doesn’t care about…
Extreme Methods: Francis Alÿs
Pushing a large block of ice around a city until it melts may seem like a punishment from Greek mythology but this is exactly what artist Francis Alÿs did for his work ‘Paradox of Praxis 1 (Sometimes making something leads to nothing)” from 1997. We start this epic journey by following Alÿs as he pushesContinue reading “Extreme Methods: Francis Alÿs”
Extreme Methods: Bas Jan Ader
There are several leading contemporary artists who have gone to extremes to explore ideas in the creation of…
Contemporary Art Classics: ‘Mogamma, A Painting in Four Parts: Part 3’
The sweeping clusters of lines and shapes push and pull our view across the picture plane. Standing in front of this huge painting is like experiencing the force of a hurricane.
Interview with artist Florence Hutchings for @floorrmagazine
“The dialogue with the work and the space around it continually changes. Whether it be the work in the studio having a messier feel or being placed in an interior type gallery it could hold a homely relatable feel or if it is placed in a traditional white cube space it gives it a ‘finished’ feeling”
Contemporary Art Classics: ‘My Bed’
The artwork is highly personal and contains various intimate items. Stained bedsheets, used condoms and underwear are some of the items which shocked the media and brought the artwork to the public’s attention.
Kitchen Sink Painting
Artworks based on direct observation are a useful insight into what an artist is seeing, thinking and feeling at the time. They might also tell us about the intimate details of an artist’s life and act as a valuable record of the social and political context.
Interview with artist Edgar Serran for @floorrmagazine
“I typically choose raw materials for their political content, by which I mean the animal byproducts that are the building blocks of something known as dependency theory, which states that raw materials from underdeveloped countries are exported to wealthier nations/empires and enrich the latter at the expense of the former”
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