Talk Art podcast

Talk Art

Actor Russell Tovey and gallerist Robert Diament host Talk Art, a podcast dedicated to the world of art featuring exclusive interviews with leading artists, curators & gallerists, and even occasionally their talented friends from other industries like acting, music and journalism. Listen in to explore the magic of art and why it connects us all in such fantastic ways. Follow the official Instagram @TalkArt for images of artworks discussed in each episode and to follow Russell and Robert's latest art adventures. Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Actor Russell Tovey and gallerist Robert Diament host Talk Art, a podcast dedicated to the world of art featuring exclusive interviews with leading artists, curators & gallerists, and even occasionally their talented friends from other industries like acting, music and journalism. Listen in to explore the magic of art and why it connects us all in such fantastic ways. Follow the official Instagram @TalkArt for images of artworks discussed in each episode and to follow Russell and Robert's latest art adventures. Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

 

#290

Otamere Guobadia (Live in Margate)

Talk Art Live! We meet Otamere Guobadia, a multidisciplinary writer, poet, and columnist whose work focuses on desire, art, adornment, queerness, and agency, within culture high, low, and popular. Recorded live in Margate @FortRoadHotel. Thanks to @TheMargateBookshop & @QuenchGallery. 💕🎙️ We discuss lyricism, queerness, love for the Women in our families and friendships, Yves Klein blue and how art and poetry are interconnected! Otamere’s work has appeared in British Vogue, i-D, Dazed, GQ, The Guardian, Vogue Italia, Wonderland, The BBC, The Independent, and AnOther Magazine, among other publications. His first book, Unutterable Visions, Perishable Breath is available now from all good bookstores. Otamere Guobadia’s debut, UNUTTERABLE VISIONS, PERISHABLE BREATH, published by Broken Sleep Books, is a gorgeous collection of writings which embody poetic sequences and fragmented poetry as queer forms, a coruscating interplay between language and desire. A look at how love, lovelessness, agency, and destiny constellate and complicate each other while refracting these notions, and Guobadia’s own personal histories, through a distinct and unabashedly sentimental lens. This is Otamere Guobadia’s Lusk letter, a record of ‘love in bones and air and stars.’ 🔗 Follow [@Otamere] (https://www.instagram.com/otamere/?hl=en) Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

22 Mar 2024

1 HR 03 MINS

1:03:15

22 Mar 2024


#289

Li Hei Di

We meet artist Li Hei Di on the eve of their debut UK solo exhibition 700 Nights of Winter at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London. In new paintings, Li explores primal, sexual urges with theirsignature fluid application of paint. Balanced on a knife edge between abstraction and representation, paintings feature figures that swim in and out of view beneath diaphanous veils of paint; each layeroffers a different world, or a portal to an altered oneiric space, guided by desire and emotion. Multipleperspectives collide and overlap, creating dynamic compositions that offer manifold realities within asingle work. Luminescent orbs appear as though submerged in deep water, giving the compositions anebulous quality. Li’s multidisciplinary practice is concerned with repressed desire, rooted in personal experiences ofnavigating hetero-normative environments that obstruct open expressions of queerness. Their workeschews rigid sexual codes and gender categories in favour of a liberated approach to fantasy andbeauty, which exists apart from hierarchical and dominant social structures. For Li, the dichotomousrelationship between sexual arousal and repression finds a parallel in the covert ways in which eroticlove flourishes on cold winter nights, as bodies become entangled in pursuit of warmth, lost but for theother. The existential threat posed to romantic love by the culture of narcissism engendered underglobalised capitalism sets the stage in Li’s work for the negation of the self, in the radical recognition ofanother, as espoused in the writings of cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han. This commingling of two entities is found not only in humankind but in the natural world too, and Li’swork explores the role animal pollinators play in the reproductive lives of plants. Such co-evolvedrelationships encapsulate the exuberance of life in connection with erotic activity and, therefore, death. In this new body of work Li also investigates the ways in which desire manifests and, notably, declinesunder the ‘pharmacopornographic regime’, a term coined by philosopher Paul B. Preciado to describethe intersection of the pharmaceutical and pornographic industries. Li Hei Di(b. 1997, Shenyang, China)lives and works in London and received her MA in Painting fromthe Royal College of Art and a BA (Hons) from Chelsea College of Arts and the Maryland InstituteCollege of Art. In 2024, Li will have a solo exhibition at Pond Society, Shanghai and will be part of agroup exhibition at Le Consortium, Dijon. Recent exhibitions include Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA(2023); X Museum Triennial, Beijing (2023); Marguo, Paris (2023); Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas(2023), TX; CICA Vancouver (2023); Gagosian, Hong Kong (2023), and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery,London (2023), amongst others. Li Hei Di’s new solo exhibition runs from 15th March - until 20th April 2024. Free entry. Follow [@Plum_Black_Field] (https://www.instagram.com/plum_black_field/?hl=en) and [@PippyHouldsworthGallery] (https://www.instagram.com/pippyhouldsworthgallery/?hl=en) Visit: [https://www.houldsworth.co.uk/exhibitions/146-li-hei-di-700-nights-of-winter/press_release_text/] (https://www.houldsworth.co.uk/exhibitions/146-li-hei-di-700-nights-of-winter/press_release_text/) Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

15 Mar 2024

1 HR 04 MINS

1:04:05

15 Mar 2024


#288

Andrew Logan

We meet living LEGEND, the English sculptor, performance artist, jewellery-maker, portraitist and all-round cultural ICON... Andrew Logan!!!!! We learn about his friendships with Zandra Rhodes, Vivienne Westwood, Derek Jarman, Angela Flowers, Brian Eno and his recent collaboration with Stella McCartney for her Paris catwalk show. Logan (b. 1945) belongs to a unique school of English eccentrics. One of Britain’s principal sculptural artists, he challenges convention, mixes media and plays with our artistic values. Since its beginnings, Logan’s work has depended on the inventive use of whatever was to hand. With flair and fantasy he transformed real objects into their new and different versions. His artistic world includes fauna, flora, planets and gods. His love of travel provides the bases for several series of work. Born in Oxford in 1945, he qualified in architecture in the late 1960s and has worked across the fields of sculpture, stage design, drama, opera, parades, festivals and interior design. To him, “Art can be discovered anywhere.” Logan crosses cultures and embodies artistic fantasy in a unique and unprecedented way. His work is the art of popular poetry and metropolitan glamour. From his early fame amongst London’s fashionable crowd, he has become an influential artist of international stature, with exhibitions as far afield as Los Angeles (USA), Monterrey (Mexico) and St Petersburg (Russia). Versatile and enterprising designer and sculptor, born in Witney, Oxfordshire, who graduated with a diploma in architecture from Oxford School of Architecture, 1964–70. He “experienced Flower Power” in America in 1967. Did a hologram course at Goldsmiths’ College, 1982. Logan was noted for projects carried out with a showbiz flair, who to some dressed weirdly, producing camp sculptures, costumes and jewellery out of mirror and lurid plastic, but who was undeniably dedicated and persistent. He said that his aim was “to bring joy and happiness to the world”. Logan was most famous as the inventor and impresario of The Alternative Miss World, which began in 1972, the series continuing periodically at various venues. The first showing of the film The Alternative Miss World was held at the Odeon, Leicester Square, 1979, followed by the Cannes Film Festival, 1980. Follow [@AndrewLoganSculptor] (https://www.instagram.com/andrewlogansculptor/?hl=en) and his official website: [https://www.andrewlogan.com/] (https://www.andrewlogan.com/) Visit the [@AndrewLoganMuseum] (https://www.instagram.com/andrewloganmuseum?igsh=MWY5c2I3Nzhza25mNw==) in Wales. Logan had his first solo show at New Art Centre, 1973. Other events in his multi-faceted career included Egypt Revisited, sound and light spectacular in a tent on Clapham Common, 1978; decorations for Zandra Rhodes’ fashion show, 1980; Snow Sculpture World Championships, Finland, 1982; piece in Holographic Show, York Arts Festival, 1984; debut as a theatre designer, Wolfy, Ballet Rambert, Big Top, Battersea, 1987; retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1991, with tour; Jewels Fantasy Exhibition, Victoria & Albert Exhibition, 1992; a show at Cheltenham Art Gallery, 2000–1, and watercolours at A&D Gallery, 2002, in the same year there sharing an exhibition with Duggie Fields. In addition, Norwich Gallery held Logan’s Alternative Miss World Filmshow 1972 to 2002. In 1991 the Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture opened at Berriew, Powys. In 1993 the National Portrait Gallery bought two portraits. Was based at The Glasshouse, Melier Place, where he also held exhibitions. Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

08 Mar 2024

1 HR 01 MINS

1:01:49

08 Mar 2024


#287

Grace Campbell

We meet stand up comedian, actress and author Grace Campbell to discuss her experiences with art! We discover that in spite of growing up with artist friends, she had a childhood fear of galleries, her admiration for artists Tracey Emin, Judy Chicago, Marilyn Minter, Elmgreen & Dragset and living with artworks by Marcelina Amelia, Mr Brainwash, and more. Plus we learn about her close friendship with art historian Katy Hessel, her collaborations with illustrator Alice Skinner,and we discuss a new documentary about sex educator and feminist Shere Hite. Grace Campbell is ariotous force of nature. The stand up comedian, author, and actor, is on a constant,rebelliousmission to undermine most of the bullshit we are taught by society.An acclaimed stand-up, and host of the popular comedy night the Disgraceful Club, currently holding a residency at Bush Hall, Grace’s comedy is wild, glamorous, fiery, and provocative. Grace has just announced a UK tour Grace Campbell Is On Heat from October to December 2024. Buy tickets now via TicketMaster: [https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/grace-campbell-tickets/artist/1832543] (https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/grace-campbell-tickets/artist/1832543) or visit Grace’s website. Follow [@DisGraceCampbell] (https://www.instagram.com/disgracecampbell/) on Instagram and visit [https://www.disgracecampbell.com/] (https://www.disgracecampbell.com/) 🎧💘 We also highly recommend ‘28 Dates Later’ Grace’s new podcast, available to download wherever you get your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

01 Mar 2024

1 HR 11 MINS

1:11:16

01 Mar 2024


#286

Doron Langberg (with Victoria Miro and Glenn Scott Wright)

We meet artist Doron Langberg at his new exhibition in London at Victoria Miro Gallery. Night is a hymn to nocturnal worlds both interior and exterior, and the spaces of ambiguity, opportunity and liberation – physical and psychological – that open up after dark. We also meet Doron's gallerists Victoria Miro and Glenn Scott Wright. Doron Langberg’s intimate yet expansive take on relationships, sexuality, nature, family and the self proposes how painting can both portray and create queer subjectivity, forging a relationship between interior and exterior realities and the ways in which they shape and are shaped by one another. Titled after queer New York parties and club nights such as Merge and Wrecked, the spaces in these new paintings are worlds in themselves, sites of multiple layers and levels of experience and connection. Together, the works create a narrative arc that follows the course of an evening, a night out becoming the morning after as we move from Basement to Sunrise. The exhibition is accompanied by a new essay by New York-based writer and therapist Hannah Baer. Prominent among a new generation of figurative painters, Doron Langberg creates luminous works that celebrate the physicality of touch – in subject matter and process. Depicting a range of subjects, from queer love to wildflowers and sweeping landscapes, the broad scope of themes and experiences in Langberg’s work are underscored by his deeply felt use of paint. Aspects of natureare an enduring source of inspiration, resonating feelings of connection through flowers depicted in close up or as part of enveloping vistas. The works on view in Venice were painteden plein airat different times of the year and include cultivated garden plants as well ostensibly wild or self-seeded varieties – such as ragwort, thistle and dandelion. Langberg paints these fleeting moments spontaneously in one session, alighting on patches of ground and recording them in bursts of activity. Flowers and foliage spring from the whiteness of the canvas in flurries of brushstrokes, preserved by the artist as if moments of revelation. For the artist, painting nature as an ‘embodied experience’ is key. Capturing both external realities and internal states of mind, he makes a connection with artists across history – for example, the landscapes of Munch or Van Gogh. The work points to the broader significance of landscapes exterior and interior, and how they relate to or signify our own emotional states. Doron Langberg:Night, featuring large-scale tableaux of nightclub and nocturnal beach scenes, is on view at Victoria Miro, London, is now open and runs until 28 March 2024. Free entry. Visit: [https://online.victoria-miro.com/doron-langberg-london-2024/] (https://online.victoria-miro.com/doron-langberg-london-2024/) Victoria Miro, Venice is concurrently presents an exhibition of landscapes and flower paintings by Langberg, whilst [Part of Your World, the artist’s first solo institutional presentation in Europe] (https://www.kunsthal.nl/en/plan-your-visit/exhibitions/doron-langberg-part-of-your-world-en/) , on view at Kunsthal Rotterdam runs until 26th May 2024. Follow [@DoronLangberg] (https://www.instagram.com/doronlangberg/?hl=en) and [@VictoriaMiroGallery] (https://www.instagram.com/victoriamirogallery/?hl=en) on Instagram. Thanks for listening! Visit [@TalkArt] (https://www.instagram.com/talkart/?hl=en) for images and more details. Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

23 Feb 2024

1 HR 12 MINS

1:12:29

23 Feb 2024


#285

Andy Warhol, presented by Halcyon Gallery

Talk Art Special Episode! We meet Paul Green, President and Founder of Halcyon Gallery and KateBrown, Halcyon's Creative Director. #AD We explore the epic new Andy Warhol exhibition BEYOND THE BRAND, dedicated to the life and work of Andy Warhol which is now open at Halcyon's galleries until 7th April at 148 & 29 New Bond Street, London. Free to visit! ‘The reason I’m painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.’ ANDY WARHOL Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987) explored the intersection between art and commerce like no other artist in history. Beginning his career as a commercial illustrator, his transition to contemporary artist was marked by the depiction of everyday products such asCampbell’s Soupcans,Brilloboxes andCoca-Colabottles. Born Andrew Warhola, the artist ‘Americanised’ his name and transformed himself into a brand. He contrived a public persona that was apparently naïve to the implications of his work; ever armed with glib remarks to deflect questions from journalists. As he became active in numerous industries, ‘Andy Warhol’ became a record label, a production company and a publisher. His commitment to the exploration of commercial themes persisted throughout his career as is best demonstrated by theAdsseries, created towards the end of his life. Through these works, Warhol elevated advertisements, transforming them into vibrant, captivating works of art. In doing so, he blurred the line between commercial design and fine art more directly than at any point in his career. Warhol’s seismic contribution to art history is that he tied his work to a collective consciousness more closely than any other artist had before. His art is a pure reflection of popular culture in his lifetime and the spirit of western capitalism. Andy Warhol, Beyond the Brand will run until 7th April. Visit Halcyon Gallery's two spaces at 148 & 29 New Bond Street, London to see this powerful exhibition! Free entry. Show runs until 7th April 2024: [https://www.halcyongallery.com/exhibitions/79-andy-warhol-beyond-the-brand/] (https://www.halcyongallery.com/exhibitions/79-andy-warhol-beyond-the-brand/) Follow [@HalcyonGallery] (https://www.instagram.com/halcyongallery/) on Instagram. Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

20 Feb 2024

1 HR 03 MINS

1:03:29

20 Feb 2024


#284

Judy Chicago

We meet the LEGENDARY, trailblazing artist, author, educator and feminist icon Judy Chicago (b. 1939, Chicago, USA!!! We explore her major retrospective in New York's New Museum. Judy Chicago: Herstory spans her epic sixty-year career to encompass the full breadth of the artist’s contributions across painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, textiles, photography, stained glass, needlework, and printmaking. Expanding the boundaries of a traditional museum survey, the exhibition will place six decades of Chicago’s work in dialogue with work by other women across centuries in a unique Fourth Floor installation. Entitled “The City of Ladies,” this exhibition-within-the-exhibition will feature artworks and archival materials from over eighty artists, writers, and thinkers, including Simone de Beauvoir, Hildegard of Bingen, Artemisia Gentileschi, Zora Neale Hurston, Frida Kahlo, Hilma af Klint, and Virginia Woolf, among many others. Taking over four floors of the Museum, “Herstory” traces the entirety of Chicago’s practice from her 1960s experiments in Minimalism and her revolutionary feminist art of the 1970s to her narrative series of the 1980s and 1990s in which she expanded her focus to confront environmental disaster, birth and creation, masculinity, and mortality. Contextualizing her feminist methodology within the many art movements in which she has participated—and from whose histories she has frequently been erased—“Herstory” will showcase Chicago’s tremendous impact on American art and highlight her critical role as a cultural historian claiming space for women artists previously omitted from the canon. Summer 2024, [Serpentine] (https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/2024-at-serpentine/) gallery in London will present a new exhibition of Judy Chicago. Revelations will be Chicago’s first solo presentation in a major London institution. One of the most provocative and influential artists working today, Chicago came to prominence in the late 1960s when she challenged the male-dominated landscape of the art world by making work that was boldly from a woman’s perspective. With a specific focus on drawing – a medium that has occupied Chicago’s artistic practice for over seven-decades –Judy Chicago: Revelationscharts the arc of the artist’s career allowing visitors to uncover the breadth of her practice. It brings together archival and never-before-seen artworks, preparatory studies, notebooks and sketchbooks that reveal her working process and rigour in incorporating intensive, often years-long research. The exhibition presents the ways in which drawing functions as a mode to express Chicago’s innermost thoughts, hopes and, at times, most painful memories and experiences. Judy Chicago lives and works in New Mexico, USA. Follow [@Judy.Chicago] (https://www.instagram.com/judy.chicago/?hl=en) and [@NewMuseum] (https://www.instagram.com/newmuseum/?hl=en) on Instagram Visit HERSTORY at the New Museum until 3rd March 2024: [https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/judy-chicago-herstory] (https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/judy-chicago-herstory) Visit Judy's official website: [https://judychicago.com/] (https://judychicago.com/) Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

16 Feb 2024

44 MINS

44:25

16 Feb 2024


#283

Henry Fraser

We meet mouth artist Henry Fraser from his studio to discuss his art and how his life story led to the award winning theatre play The Little Big Things. Based on the Sunday Times best-selling autobiography by Henry Fraser,The Little Big Thingsis a new British musical with an explosive theatrical pop soundtrack in a world premiere production. This uplifting and colourful new musical is a life-affirming reminder about the transformative power of family, and how sometimes it really is the little things which matter the most. An avid sportsman and academy player with a premiership Rugby club, Henry Fraser’s life changed forever when in 2009 he had a diving accident. From that moment he had a new life to live as a tetraplegic and new circumstances to accept and adapt to. Henry’s defiance and determination to prosper against devastating odds led to him wheeling himself out of hospital a whole year earlier than predicted. Today he is a successful artist, inspirational speaker and best-selling author. Follow [@HenryFraser0] (https://www.instagram.com/henryfraser0/?hl=en) & the musical [@TLBTmusical] (https://www.instagram.com/tlbtmusical?igsh=MXI3M29hNGtjZTJ5Nw==) on Instagram and also [@HenryFraser0] (https://twitter.com/henryfraser0) on X (Twitter). Visit his official website: [https://henryfraserart.com/] (https://henryfraserart.com/) Go see Henry's play The Little Big Things in London at Soho Place: [https://sohoplace.org/shows/the-little-big-things] (https://sohoplace.org/shows/the-little-big-things) Henry's story It was July 18th 2009 when everything in my life changed. It was a glorious day. Blue sky, sunshine, friends all surrounded me on that golden beach. I ran into the sea thinking it was a good depth to dive forward turns out the sea bed kicked up slightly right in front of me. I collided head first and momentarily blacked out. I opened my eyes expecting to stand up, walk out the sea and join my friends. I opened my eyes floating in the sea completely unable to move. It’s amazing to think that one little thing, one brief moment, can change everything. From that moment I had a new life to live. New circumstances to accept and adapt. Three weeks spent in a Portuguese hospital (they were incredible !) with surgeries to realign my dislocated fourth vertebrae. Two weeks in intensive care in the UK. Five and half more months in hospital before I was back in the real world again. In that time I’ve experienced so many things. In January of 2015 I taught myself how draw and paint by holding the utensils in my mouth. I had a sore on my back that meant I was bed bound for a few weeks. I was getting bored sitting in bed for days on end so I found an app on my iPad that I could use for drawing by holding a stylus in my mouth and touching the screen. I loved it. When my health had improved I was able to get it of bed and I taught myself how to draw and paint with actual pencils and paint by attaching the utensils to a mouth stick. As a young child I loved art. But as I grew up I fell out of love with the subject. I lost all my enthusiasm to create. Without my accident I never would have found that love I had as a kid. Adversity has given me a gift. Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

09 Feb 2024

1 HR 04 MINS

1:04:48

09 Feb 2024


#282

Julie Mehretu, presented by BMW

New Talk Art special episode!!!! We meet ICONIC artist Julie Mehretu, presented by [BMW] (https://www.instagram.com/bmwgroupculture/) . #AD What does Julie Mehretu think about when creating BMW Art Car 20? Find out on this week’s @TalkArt episode! @RussellTovey and @RobertDiament interview [@JulieMehretu] (https://www.instagram.com/juliemehretu/?hl=en) during the process for planning and creating #BMWArtCar20. To design #artcar20, Mehretu translates her signature multi-layered motifs onto the contours of the #BMWMHybridV8. Obscured photographs, dotted grids, neon-coloured spray paint and her iconic gestural markings create abstract visual forms across the body of the car. Mehretu’s collaboration with BMW goes beyond the Art Car. Julie Mehretu and Mehret Mandefro (@drmehret), Emmy-nominated producer, writer and co-founder of the Realness Institute which aims to strengthen the media ecosystem across Africa, will host a series of gatherings across Africa in 2025 to create space for artists to meet, exchange, and collaborate in translocal ways. Follow [@JulieMehretu] (https://www.instagram.com/juliemehretu/?hl=en) and [@BMWGroupCulture] (https://www.instagram.com/bmwgroupculture/) to stay in the loop for more sneak peeks of the next addition to this legendary car collection. Ideas of time, space and place are enmeshed in the work of Julie Mehretu. Drawing is fundamental to her practice, whether in works on paper, painting or printmaking. The artist’s dextrous mark-making comes together in a characteristic swirl, an act of assertion in response to social and political change. ‘As I continue drawing,’ she says, ‘I find myself more and more interested in the idea that drawing can be an activist gesture. That drawing – as an informed, intuitive process, a process that is representative of individual agency and culture, a very personal process – offers something radical.’ The countdown for the unveiling of the 20th BMW Art Car is underway. On 21st May, the BMW M Hybrid V8, designed by artist Julie Mehretu and set to compete at the 24 Hours of Le Mans on 15th/16th June, will be presented at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France. The artist is already providing glimpses into her work. Additionally, it is now confirmed that the Art Car will carry the starting number 20 and will be driven by Sheldon van der Linde (RSA), Robin Frijns (NED), and René Rast (GER). The #20 BMW M Hybrid V8 will be the first Art Car since the 2017 season, where the BMW M6 GTLM designed by John Baldessari raced at the 24 Hours of Daytona (USA), followed by the virtual BMW M6 GT3 Art Car by Cao Fei at the FIA GT World Cup in Macau (CHN). In the past, the most famous BMW Art Cars have participated in Le Mans: in 1975, Alexander Calder’s BMW 3.0 CSL, in 1976, Frank Stella’s BMW 3.0 CSL, in 1977, Roy Lichtenstein’s BMW 320i Turbo, in 1979, Andy Warhol’s BMW M1, in 1999, Jenny Holzer’s BMW V12 LMR, and in 2010, Jeff Koons’ BMW M3 GT2. This illustrious collection is now enriched by Julie Mehretu’s BMW M Hybrid V8. For the design of the 20th BMW Art Car, Mehretu uses the colour and form vocabulary of an existing large-format painting from a more recent series of works: obscured photographs, dotted grids, neon-coloured spray paint and Mehretu’s iconic gestural markings give her design an abstract visual form. She transfers the resulting image motif as a high-resolution photograph onto the vehicle’s contours using a 3D mapping technique. This creates the unique artistic foiling with which the BMW M Hybrid V8 will compete in the Le Mans race. Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

06 Feb 2024

56 MINS

56:15

06 Feb 2024


#281

Dan Levy

We meet all-round LEGEND, Dan Levy, the Emmy award winning producer, writer, director, actor and art collector!! We discuss his love of art, living with art and collecting, growing up in Canada, The Group of Seven (Canadian landscape painters from 1920s-30s), his collaborations with Jonathan Anderson/Loewe, his love of work #DavidWojnarowicz’s art & @PPOWGallery & @Visual_Aids charity,and his brand new art-inspired movie Good Grief out now on Netflix in which an artist (Dan) grieves the loss of his famous writer husband (Luke Evans) then takes his two best friends on a trip to Paris, where they unpack messy secrets and hard truths. We explore what it was like to play the role of a painter but also to collaborate with a real world artist Kris Knight [@KrisKnight] (https://www.instagram.com/krisknight/?hl=en) who was commissioned by Dan to make the paintings within/prominently featured at the end of the film… in MARGATE!!!! Plus the time he bought a Schitt’s Creek related watercolour painting on Instagram made by a super fan, the artist Anna Brindley!!! We discuss the artwork of Patrick Carroll @PatCar, and share the love for our mutual friend @EmmaLouiseCorrin (who portrays a determined performance artist in Good Grief!) Follow [@InstaDanJLevy] (https://www.instagram.com/instadanjlevy/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=c85042a9-1e81-4bca-9729-443a79ddf050&ig_mid=2472CACF-BED1-4CFA-AF98-5B81F638E652) Watch Good Grief: [https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81462549] (https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81462549) Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

02 Feb 2024

58 MINS

58:48

02 Feb 2024


#280

Alexandria Tarver

We meet artist Alexandria Tarver to discuss her current solo exhibition at Deli Gallery, New York. Tarver recontextualizes the traditional floral motif into a space between memory, idealization, and presence. Her process begins on a ritualistic evening walk around New York City. For Tarver, the night is a dynamic time oscillating between rest, dreams, and frenzy, often unleashing subconscious desires restrained during the day. It's a period when trouble happens, stars become visible, and the city, never at rest, mirrors the cycle akin to death. The variability of the city's nighttime sky, influenced by observation points, weather, and proximity to building lights, becomes a rich palette of colors, each night unique. On these walks the artist identifies potential subjects, often floral clusters, in an action akin to foraging. Tarver photographs the subject and then creates a preliminary composition in pencil on paper. The subject is finally rendered in oil on panel, employing techniques from various historical movements including post-impressionism, New England mid-century representationalism, and gestural abstraction. The primary layer, accompanied by lapis and cerulean blue ground, captures the electric color of twilight. The timeline varies, with some paintings taking weeks or even months. The vibrant blue of twilight oscillates against the flesh-tones of the central flower form—this blue sometimes deepening, sometimes shifting into an evening haze, sometimes sinking into purple-black depth, a depth halted by the ever-present electric glow of the skyline. Tarver finds profound meaning in the repetition and variations on a theme. As she explores the possibilities of painting, she grapples with the act of painting and its evolution over time and practice. The disciplined dedication to a subject or landscape, evident in artists like Maureen Gallace, Vija Celmins, and Jim Dine, is mirrored in Tarver's formal repetition, which becomes a grounding force that reflects the rhythm of day-to-day existence. In the paintings, flowers and markings are situated as acting figures within the particular, ever-variable, and intensely observed color field of the night sky as viewed from the concrete grounds of the city. Much like Ellsworth Kelly's plant drawings served as a device for him, the plant in Tarver's works acts as a stand-in, offering a guiding framework for her hand and a pathway to reflect on the long nights she has experienced. During a vulnerable period around 2013 and 2014, marked by the sickness and imminent mortality of Tarver's father, the practice of looking at flowers and creating paintings became a place of solace. This loyalty endures, providing a grounding force and a way to navigate through fear, pain, and sorrow. Alexandria Tarver (b. 1989) received a BFA from New York University in 2011. Recently her work has been included in group exhibitions at GRIMM Gallery, London (2023), Marinaro Gallery, NY (2023), Public Gallery, London (2022), UncleBrother, NY (2021), Arsenal Gallery, NY (2019), Et. Al. etc., San Francisco (2017), Danziger Gallery, NY (2016). Tarver also organized group shows Sentimental at Fitness Center for the Arts & Tactics in Brooklyn (2013) and #1 at The Hose in Brooklyn (2013). Tarver had her first solo exhibition with Deli Gallery in 2015. She lives and works in New York City. Follow [@AlexandriaTarver] (https://www.instagram.com/alexandriatarver/) on Instagram and [@DeliGallery] (https://www.instagram.com/deligallery/?hl=en) . Visit: [https://deligallery.com/Alexandria-Tarver-New-Paintings-2024] (https://deligallery.com/Alexandria-Tarver-New-Paintings-2024) Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

26 Jan 2024

57 MINS

57:50

26 Jan 2024


#279

Sandy Powell OBE

SEASON 20 BEGINS!!! We meet ICON of film and Hollywood costumes SANDY POWELL OBE!!!! We discuss her love of art, collaborating with legendary queer artists/creative minds Derek Jarman and Lindsay Kemp, a 25 year collaboration with choreographer Lea Anderson, and how art informs her costume design. We explore a series of portraits of Sandy painted by Sadie Lee.Sandy isa multi award-winning Costume Designer who has won three Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards for Best Costume Design, plus the recent honour of BAFTA Fellowship 2023, and two Costume Designers Guild Awards. Londoner, Sandy, studied at St Martins School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design where she specialised in theatre design. She started her professional career in fringe with the National Theatre working on numerous productions including Orders of Obedience and Rococo. She went on to design sets and costumes for productions of Lumiere and Son, Bright Side and Culture Vulture. As a student and one of the leading lights of the international theatre scene she most admired was Lindsay Kemp, the gifted director, designer and performer. On impulse she spoke to him on the phone and said how much she wanted to work with him. After seeing samples of her work he asked her to join him in Milan as costume designer for his theatre company. During her 3 year spell with him she worked on Nijinsky which was a study of the start and madness of the great Russian dancer. She also designed the costumes for The Big Parade, a tragic- comic homage to the silent screen, and the stage and screen versions of A Midsummer Nights Dream. In 1985 she rapidly established herself in the world of video working on many pop promos with director Derek Jarman and with him on his film Caravaggio, and Zenith's For Queen and Country. Born in 1960, she was raised in south London, where she was taught to sew by her mother on a Singer sewing machine, and began experimenting with cutting and adapting patterns at a young age. Educated at Sydenham High School, she went on to complete an Art Foundation at Saint Martins in 1978, and in 1979 she began a BA in Theatre Design at Central School of Art and Design (now Central Saint Martins). In 1981 she withdrew from her degree to assist a costume designer who worked for a fringe theatre company called Rational Theatre, and also began a long collaboration with Lindsay Kemp designing for him in Italy and Spain. In 1984 when, after a spell as a costume designer on music videos, she moved into the film industry. Her break came when the film director and stage designer Derek Jarman appointed her costume designer on his film, Caravaggio (1986), starring Tilda Swinton and Sean Bean. To date, Powell has worked as Costume Designer on over 50 films, including Orlando (1992);The Crying Game (1992); Interview with the Vampire (1994); Michael Collins (1996); The Wings of The Dove (1997); Hilary and Jackie (1998); The End of the Affair (1999); Gangs of New York (2002); Far From Heaven (2002); Sylvia (2003); The Aviator (2005); The Departed (2006); Shutter Island (2010) Hugo (2011) The Wolf of Wall Street (2013); Cinderella (2015); Carol (2015); Mary Poppins Returns (2018); and Living (2022). She has earned 76 award nominations and won 27 awards in her career, including Academy Awards for Shakespeare in Love (1998) and The Aviator (2004), a BAFTA Award for Velvet Goldmine (1998), and both an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for The Young Victoria (2010). Follow [@TheSandyPowell] (https://www.instagram.com/thesandypowell/?hl=en) on Instagram. Thanks for listening!!! This season is shaping up to be one of the most fascinating so far!!! Thanks for listening. Follow us [@TalkArt] (https://www.instagram.com/talkart/?hl=en) for images of works we discuss. Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

19 Jan 2024

49 MINS

49:39

19 Jan 2024


#278

Ryan Murphy (New Year Special Episode)

It's 2024!!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! We meet iconic writer, director, and producer RYAN MURPHY, best known for American Horror Story, Dahmer, Pose, The Andy Warhol Diaries, Ratched, The Watcher and Glee. We explore his love of collecting and preserving artworks including Old Masters, his passion for artists Andy Warhol, Patrick Angus, Helen Frankenthaler, restoring and safeguarding Hans Hofmann’s house/studio, how art inspires his own creativity and writing, plus we discuss the forthcoming new TV series Feud: Capote vs The Swans, produced by Ryan and co-starring Talk Art's very own Russell Tovey. Born November 9, 1965 in Indianapolis, Indiana, US as Ryan Murphy is responsible for creating such hits as [Nip/Tuck (2003)] (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361217/?ref_=nmbio_mbio) , [Glee (2009)] (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1327801/?ref_=nmbio_mbio) and [American Horror Story (2011)] (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1844624/?ref_=nmbio_mbio) . He attended a Catholic school till the eighth grade and graduated from Warren Central High School. He went on to study journalism at the Indiana University Bloomington, where he was also a member of a vocal ensemble, and went on to intern in the style section of The Washington Post in 1986. In 1990 he got into screenwriting, but only in 1999 was his first story produced: it was [Popular (1999)] (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202748/?ref_=nmbio_mbio) , a teen comedy show, which he co-created with [Gina Matthews] (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0560033/?ref_=nmbio_mbio) and which run for two seasons. In 2003 he created [Nip/Tuck (2003)] (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361217/?ref_=nmbio_mbio) , which brought him his first Emmy nomination. He won the award six years later, when in 2009 he directed the pilot of his hit series [Glee (2009)] (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1327801/?ref_=nmbio_mbio) which he co-created with [Ian Brennan] (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0107302/?ref_=nmbio_mbio) and [Brad Falchuk] (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1004299/?ref_=nmbio_mbio) . In 2011 he and Falchuk co-crated another highly popular series, [American Horror Story (2011)] (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1844624/?ref_=nmbio_mbio) . In 2015 he was awarded the Award for Inspiration from amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research. In 2018 Murphy signed a five-year $300 million development deal with Netflix. He is a pan equal opportunities activist, both through his movies and television projects which very often focus on the LGBTQ+ community, and as a creator of the Half Initiative, which aims at making Hollywood more inclusive for women and minorities. In 2023, Murphy received the prestigious ‘Carol Burnett Award’ at the Golden Globes. He has won five Golden Globes and has been nominated 16 times for his work.He's been married to photographer David Miller since 2012. They have three sons, Logan Phineas, Ford, and Griffin Sullivan. Follow [@RyanMurphyProductions] (https://www.instagram.com/ryanmurphyproductions/?hl=en) on Instagram. Stream 'Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans', which premieres on January 31, 2024, on FX and will then stream on Hulu.The series will also be available worldwide to stream via Disney+ including the UK and Europe. Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

01 Jan 2024

1 HR 24 MINS

1:24:29

01 Jan 2024


#277

Boy George (Christmas Special Episode)

It's the Talk Art CHRISTMAS EPISODE!!! We meet the incomparable Boy George: Grammy, Brit and Ivor Novello award-winning lead singer of Culture Club, songwriter, music producer, fashion designer, artist/painter and LGBTQ+ vanguard. All in all, he's a pop culture ICON!!! In this generous, candid, TWO HOUR feature-length special, you can immerse yourself in the creative and fascinating mind of BOY GEORGE!!!! We explore George's lifetime making art (he has been painting since childhood) in tandem with singing, writing and producing music, collaborating with Sinead O’Connor, his love of Yoko Ono’s art and music, being summoned for lunch with Andy Warhol, his respect & friendships with Duggie Fields, Tracey Emin, John Maybury, Leigh Bowery,Keith Haring, Vivienne Westwood and Derek Jarman plus getting to meet legends Lou Reed, Jean-Michel Basquiatand Frank Sinatra! Plus George reads our star signs and reveals that Russ & Rob share both their star sign and moon.. AND he sings for us his part from Band Aid’s ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’!!!!! We discover details of his infinite hat collection but also the art he has collected including a number of artworks by David Bowie as well as Grayson Perry and Yoko Ono. George’s best selling book KARMA is out now. Told in his inimitable style, this definitive autobiography tells the story of the charismatic frontman - the drama, the music, his journey of addiction and recovery, surviving prison, meeting legends like David Bowie, Madonna, Diana Ross and Prince, and the highs and lows of a life lived in the spotlight and in the headlines. In 2024,Boy George will make his return after 20 years to Broadway in the musical [Moulin Rouge!] (https://www.broadway.com/shows/moulin-rouge-musical/) The larger-than-life English superstar will take over the role of the boisterous, top-hatted impresario Harold Zidler in the Tony Award-winning musicalfor a limited run from Tuesday, February 6th to Sunday, May 12th 2024. Follow [@BoyGeorgeOfficial] (https://www.instagram.com/boygeorgeofficial/?hl=en) on Instagram and [@BoyGeorge] (https://twitter.com/BoyGeorge) on X (formerly Twitter). Buy his new autobiography KARMA at [Waterstones] (https://www.waterstones.com/book/karma/boy-george/9781785120350) . Book tickets for [Moulin Rouge] (https://moulinrougemusical.com/new-york/home/) and learn more here: [@MoulinRougeBway] (https://www.instagram.com/moulinrougebway/?hl=en) HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!!! Thanks for listening to us for the past 5 years!!! We have loved celebrating our 5th anniversary in 2023. We will return on New Year's Day with another ICONIC guest. Until then, have a magical Christmas. Love, Russell & Robert Xx Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

22 Dec 2023

2 HR 03 MINS

2:03:03

22 Dec 2023


#276

Anna Uddenberg

We meet Berlin-based Swedish artist Anna Uddenberg to exploreHOME WRECKERS, her first UK solo exhibition, at The Perimeter. Working primarily in sculpture, installation and performance, Anna Uddenberg’s practice reflects on taste and class, appropriation and sexuality, and explores systemised relations of power and conventions of control in the context of a technology-bound consumer culture. At The Perimeter, Anna Uddenberg presents works made over the past seven years, featuring 10 sculptures of hypersexualised and overextended faceless female figures. The sculptures featured inHOME WRECKERSpoint at the absurdity in the sexualisation of the female form in advertisements for domestic items such as sofas, prams and even for laundry detergent. Uddenberg has created a range of generic interior environments as a setting for these sculptures, transforming The Perimeter with soft furnishings such as sofas and carpets to further emphasise the staged associations of femininity and domesticity. These staged domestic environments which could be found in homes, hotels, on reality TV sets or in furniture showrooms, feel both accessible and familiar. They evoke specific notions of expected behaviours, assigning a performative value to the acts undertaken therein. Alongside these sculptures, Uddenberg presents her first ever film at The Perimeter, co-directed with Thyago Sainte. This film also marks The Perimeter’s first time supporting the production of a new commission, which will go on to be shown internationally. The work has been made possible with the additional support of Black Cube Nomadic Art Museum and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler. Uddenberg has reached art world, fashion and Internet notoriety with her practice. Three sculptures featured at The Perimeter were originally produced for a Balenciaga advertising campaign for its Balenciaga Crocs collaboration in 2021. Uddenberg most recently received a viral response to a performance piece, ‘Continental Breakfast’ staged at Meredith Rosen Gallery in April 2023. Provoking a strong and ‘real' reaction in the digital space opens up Uddenberg’s practice, as she has long desired for her work to transcend representation, stating, “Instead of representing something, I want to trigger something so that it becomes real in a way.” As the lines between reality and fiction become increasingly blurred, Uddenberg postulates that “Maybe the fake is more authentic than whatever you think of as authentic”. Concurrently with her exhibition at The Perimeter, Anna Uddenberg is staging an exhibition at the Kunsthalle Mannheim in celebration of her being awarded the Hector Art Prize in 2022. In recognition of the conversation between these exhibitions, The Perimeter has co-published a catalogue with the Kunsthalle Mannheim, which documents the breadth of Anna Uddenberg’s practice to date. Anna Uddenberg was born in Stockholm in 1982 and today lives and works in Berlin and Stockholm. She studied at Frankfurt Städelschule and Stockholm’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts. ​ Follow [@Filet_Minion_Thong] (https://www.instagram.com/filet_minion_thong/) on Instagram and visit [@ThePerimeterLondon] (https://www.instagram.com/theperimeterlondon/?hl=en) & [@KunsthalleMa] (https://www.instagram.com/KunsthalleMa/) . Exhibition is free to visit and runs until 22nd December 2023. 💝 Thanks Alex V. Petalas, [@MeredithRosenGallery] (https://www.instagram.com/MeredithRosenGallery/) & [@KraupaTuskanyZeidler] (https://www.instagram.com/KraupaTuskanyZeidler/) Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

15 Dec 2023

1 HR 18 MINS

1:18:47

15 Dec 2023


#275

Andrew Cranston

We meet painter Andrew Cranston from his studio in Glasgow, Scotland to discuss his major new solo exhibition at Hepworth Wakefield. Andrew Cranston was born in Hawick in the Scottish Borders in 1969, and now lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. Cranston studied at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen and then completed his postgraduate study at the Royal College of Art, where he was taught by Peter Doig and Adrian Berg. Andrew Cranston: What made you stop here? features 38 new and recent paintings that range from large-scale canvases to intimate works painted on old linen-bound book covers, comprising subjects that include stilllife, landscape, seascape, portraits, and interior scenes. This is the first public gallery to present a solo exhibition of his works. Engaging with the layered emotional quality and pathos of everyday life, as well as a strong sense of place, be it real or imagined, Cranston’s evocatively titled paintings contain compelling and intriguing narratives that have the collaged dream-like quality of recollection and what he calls ‘creative misremembering’. His formally inventive and highly intimate paintings find new ways to connect the personal and art historical past with the present through a gamut of visual and literary references and shared experiences. The paintings exploit what is perhaps only glanced existing in the periphery of vision and embody a sense of revelation, wonder and oddness in familiar situations. Connections and highly personal associations are deeply entwined in these works creating a rewarding and memorable experience. On display at The Hepworth Wakefield for the first time is one of Cranston’s most recent paintings entitled,A snake came to my coffee table on a hot, hot day to drink there (2023), which has been generously acquired for Wakefield’s art collection through the JW Anderson Collections Fund. It features what Cranston says is ‘an intrusion of something alien into the familiar, an unlikely presence and threat into the domestic’. A large number of other works in the exhibition, lent from private collections, have never been shown publicly before. Follow [@Andrew.Cranston] (https://www.instagram.com/andrew.cranston/?hl=en) on Instagram and [@HepworthWakefield] (https://www.instagram.com/hepworthwakefield/) . Andrew Cranston: What made you stop here? is now open and runs until 2nd June 2024 Exhibition entry is £13 / £11 / FREE for Members, Wakefield District residents and under 18s. Visit: [https://hepworthwakefield.org/whats-on/andrew-cranston/] (https://hepworthwakefield.org/whats-on/andrew-cranston/) Visit Andrew's galleries: Ingleby [@InglebyGallery] (https://www.instagram.com/inglebygallery/?hl=en) Modern Art [@stuartshavemodernart] (https://www.instagram.com/stuartshavemodernart/?hl=en) and Karma [@KarmaKarma9] (https://www.instagram.com/karmakarma9/?hl=en) . Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

08 Dec 2023

1 HR 24 MINS

1:24:23

08 Dec 2023


#274

Jordan Eagles

We meet artist Jordan Eagles to mark World Aids Day 2023. For 25 years, Eagles (b. 1977) has been exploring the aesthetics and ethics of blood as an artistic medium since the late 1990s. He lives and works in New York City and we were lucky to visit his studio in Brooklyn and were lucky enough to have our portraits taken by Jordan, within one of his projections. Exploring the visual power, and cultural uses of blood, are the central tenets of Eagle's practice, which includes painting, sculpture, installation, photography and public programming. Created with animal blood from slaughterhouses, the work address themes of corporeality, spirituality, and regeneration. The preservation technique permanently retains the organic material’s natural colors, patterns, and textures. When lit, the works become translucent and luminous, reflecting the many layers suspended throughout the resin, revealing the blood’s visceral properties and energy. More politically motivated series, rendered from donated human blood—procured from the LGBTQI+ community—are utilized to advocate for fair blood donation policies, anti-stigma, and equality. We discuss his major museum solo show ONE BLOOD currently on display at Springfield Art Museum, Missouri until February 18, 2024. Blood is frequently associated with violence and death, yet it is a critical life-force universal to all humanity. In an era of mass shootings, war, disease, and the urgent struggle over body autonomy and LGBTQI+ rights, blood is a symbolic connective tissue – often sensationalized – its visceral power is undeniable. Over the past decade, Eagles has built an expansive body of work focused on challenging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) blood donation policy, which advocates suggest is biased, perpetuates stigma and homophobia, and is not in line with modern science. Eagles’ sculptures, panels, screen-prints, photographic and video works are collaborations created with blood donated by members of the LGBTQI+ community, specifically for the purpose of making artworks and advocating for science and equality. Eagles utilizes a broad range of techniques in his work and his preservation process retains the natural patterns, colors, and textures of the organic material. Most of the blood in this exhibition is preserved, including sculptures and panels made with medical waste and archival material. The title of his solo exhibition,ONE BLOOD, references that despite the different backgrounds and serotypes of the blood donors, they are all united for blood equality. The exhibition features the workBlood Mirror, a large resin sculpture made with 59 individual human blood donations, that could have been used for life saving purposes if the FDA’s policy was more fair. For the first time, key works from several of the artist’s series that connect queer blood with American pop culture, comic books, military propaganda, and religious iconography are on view together. The exhibition also includes new works from Eagles’ latest series utilizing Artificial Intelligence. Follow [@JordanEagles] (https://www.instagram.com/jordaneagles/) and visit: [https://jordaneagles.com/exhibitions] (https://jordaneagles.com/exhibitions) Learn about the Elton John AIDS Foundation's work. Since 1992, they are one of the leading independent AIDS organisations in the world helping to end the AIDS epidemic: [https://www.eltonjohnaidsfoundation.org/] (https://www.eltonjohnaidsfoundation.org/) Follow [@theAIDSmemorial] (https://www.instagram.com/theaidsmemorial) on Instagram. Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

01 Dec 2023

1 HR 22 MINS

1:22:53

01 Dec 2023


#273

Navot Miller

We meet artist Navot Miller on the eve of his new solo exhibition at Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, where Robert is the Director. We discuss his recent paintings, his journey since his last Talk Art episode one and a half years ago and his future plans - including a duo show with the work of late artist Patrick Angus, in Germany in April 2024. Enamored with life’s fleeting moments of passion, heartache, and banality, Navot Miller (b. 1991) positions his practice as a record of it all. Drawing from the flow of moments and memories in his own life, Miller records the landscapes, architecture, and people he sees with fresh, inquisitive eyes. To capture these moments, Miller takes hundreds of photos as they pass, revisiting them later as the source material for his paintings. This part of his process-the transfer of composition from screen to canvas-is crucial, as it lends itself to a flatness of form, which Miller enhances with a vibrant, highly contrasted palette of solid pinks, yellows, blues, and greens. The forms that emerge are sectioned into flat blocks of color, punctuated intermittently by elements of richly blended paint that accentuate such elements as hair, skin, or flowing tapestries. The artist’s experiences as a gay, Jewish immigrant living in Germany figure prominently into his painting. Growing up in a rural Israeli village, Miller found it difficult to express himself and his identity as a young gay person. Upon relocating to Berlin as an adult, he found a community of creatives who opened up new possibilities for self-expression. In Berlin, Miller began to study architecture, but found himself filling his portfolio with drawn depictions of queer love, and eventually switched courses to pursue painting. His background in architecture, however, permeates his compositions, which are filled with dramatic arches and elaborate door and window frames. Within these grandiose spaces, Miller locates men loving, swimming, and resting, many of whom sport peyes, the curled sidelocks worn by many religious Jewish men. The artist celebrates these scenes with a brazenly colorful palette, an exclamation of joy and undeniable presence. Navot Miller has exhibited work widely in the United States and abroad, including solo exhibitions at 1969 Gallery in New York, NY; Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel; Grove Collective, London, UK; Wannsee Contemporary, Berlin, Germany; Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate. He has presented work in group exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; Werkstattgalerie, Berlin, Germany; Unit 1 Gallery, London, UK; and Art Zagreb, Croatia, among others. The artist received his Diploma from Weissensee Art School in Berlin, Germany where he currently works and lives. Follow [@NavotMiller] (https://www.instagram.com/navotmiller/?hl=en-gb) on Instagram.Visit Navot's new solo show at [@CarlFreedmanGallery] (https://www.instagram.com/carlfreedmangallery/?hl=en) in Margate, Kent until 28th January 2024: [https://carlfreedman.com/exhibitions/2023/navot-miller/] (https://carlfreedman.com/exhibitions/2023/navot-miller/) Open Wed-Sun, 12-5pm, free entry. Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

24 Nov 2023

1 HR 15 MINS

1:15:17

24 Nov 2023


#272

Ginny on Frederick and Public Gallery, presented by Stone Island

Talk Art LIVE!!!! Special Episode presented by Stone Island. We talk to emerging galleries Ginny on Frederick and Public Gallery!!! As part of Stone Island's multi-year global partnership with Frieze, we speak to two emerging contemporary art galleries from the recent London edition of Frieze art fair's Focus. We chat to two talented gallerists: HarryDougall of Public and Freddie Powell of Ginny on Frederick to explore how they founded their art spaces, the journeys they've both been on since founding in the past few years and their experiences of exhibiting for the first time at Frieze Focus 2023. The section provides a platform for galleries aged 12 years and younger and Stone Island provide all galleries participating in Focus with a generous bursary, which is the equivalent of up to 30% of each exhibitor’s stand fee. This additional support, together with Frieze’s existing subsidisation of the section, will further aid young galleries participation in the fair. The partnership reflects Stone Island, Talk Art and Frieze’s shared belief in foregrounding the most exciting new artistic talent. Follow [@GinnyonFrederick] (https://www.instagram.com/ginnyonfrederick/?hl=en) and [@Public__Gallery] (https://www.instagram.com/public__gallery/) Find more details on each gallery via: [https://ginnyonfrederick.com/] (https://ginnyonfrederick.com/) and [https://public.gallery/] (https://public.gallery/) Special thanks to Stone Island. This episode was recorded live in November 2023 at Stone Island's flagship London store, Brewer Street, Soho. Visit: [@StoneIslandOfficial] (https://www.instagram.com/stoneisland_official/) to learn more! Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

21 Nov 2023

52 MINS

52:26

21 Nov 2023


#271

Tabboo!

We meet American artist Tabboo! (Stephen Tashjian, b. 1959, Leicester, Massachusetts) at his apartment in the East Village. We discuss his love of painting, his collection of glitter, early friendships via Boston including Nan Goldin and Jack Pierson. We explore his 1980s move to NY inspired by Klaus Nomi and New Wave, which led to his own regular performances at the legendary Pyramid Club appearing next to other drag legends like Rupaul and Lady Bunny. Notably, Tabboo! also contributed graphic design for album covers such as Deee-Lite'sWorld Clique. The curly lettering on the album cover became an iconic image for the band and the rave culture of the early 1990s. Tabboo! is a multidisciplinary artist and painter based in New York City. He renders his subjects in a direct, intuitive style, suspending figurative elements against dreamlike colorfields. Tabboo! often draws subjects from his surroundings, depicting expressive cityscapes, portraits of friends, or imaginative still lifes inspired by the plants in his apartment.He also paints large, panoramic works and site-specific murals. These immersive settings recall the painted backdrops he made for performances in the 1980s and 1990s. While performing regularly himself, Tabboo! also designed numerous event fliers, posters, and album covers featuring his signature curvilinear text, which still appears in his work. Roberta Smith described Tabboo!’s paintings as “delicious, fresh and transparent, revealing every touch of color, every pour and drip.” His work is held in the collections of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Tabboo!’s work is on view in the exhibitionThe Myth of Normal: A Celebration of Authentic Expressionat the MassArt Art Museum, Boston, though May 19, 2024. Follow [@TabbooNYC] (https://www.instagram.com/tabboonyc/?hl=en) and [https://karmakarma.org/artists/tabboo/] (https://karmakarma.org/artists/tabboo/) and [https://www.gordonrobichaux.com/artists/tabboo] (https://www.gordonrobichaux.com/artists/tabboo) Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

17 Nov 2023

1 HR 27 MINS

1:27:08

17 Nov 2023


#270

Roberta Smith

Talk Art NYC special episode! We meet American art critic ROBERTA SMITH from her apartment in Greenwich Village. We explore her career over the past 50 years - Smith first began publishing art criticism in 1972. This epic feature-length conversation gets deep as we discuss visual literacy within education and the 'meaning' of art! In 2011, Smith became the first woman to hold the title of Co-Chief Art Critic of The New York Times. Roberta Smith regularly reviews museum exhibitions, art fairs and gallery shows in New York, North America and abroad. Smith began regularly writing for the Times in 1985, and has been on staff there since 1991. She has written on Western and non-Western art from the prehistoric to the contemporary eras. She sees her main responsibility as “getting people out of the house,” making them curious enough to go see the art she covers, but she also enjoys posting artworks on Instagram and Twitter. Special areas of interest include ceramics textiles, folk and outsider art, design and video art. Before the NYT, she was a critic for the Village Voice from 1980 to 1984. She has written critic’s notebooks on the need for museums to be free to the public; Brandeis University’s decision to close its museum and sell its art collection (later rescinded), and the unveiling of the Google Art Project, which allowed online HD views of paintings in the collections of scores of leading museums worldwide. Born in New York City, Smith was raised in Lawrence, Kansas, and earned her BA from Grinnell College in Iowa. She was introduced to the art world in the late 1960s, first as an intern at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in Washington, DC, and later as a participant in the Whitney’s Independent Study Program. During her time at the Whitney, she became familiarwith the New York art world, and she met the artist Donald Judd, who would figure large in her early career. Smith wrote about Judd’s development from two to three dimensions, between 1954 and 1964, and began collecting and archiving his writings. Smith began working at the Paula Cooper Gallery in 1972, at which time she also began writing for Artforum, the New York Times, Art in America, and the Village Voice, where she has written important considerations of Philip Guston’s late paintings, the sculptures of Richard Artschwager, and Scott Burton’s performances. Smith has written many essays for catalogues and monographs on contemporary artists, as well as on the decorative arts, popular and outsider art, design, and architecture. In 2003, the College Art Association awarded her with the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism. Furthermore in 2019 Smith was presented a $50,000 lifetime achievement award from the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation. Due to NYT's editorial guidelines, Smith was unable to accept the cash prize and donated the entirety to the Art for Justice Fund, an organization launched by philanthropist Agnes Gund, whose goals include “safely cutting the prison population in states with the highest rates of incarceration, and strengthening education and employment options for people leaving prison.”: "Roberta Smith has been responsible for building an audience for the art of the self-taught, for ceramic art, video art, digital art, systems of re-presentation and much more. Across many traditional boundaries, she has offered a frank, lovingly detailed assessment of new art and artists to her expansive readership. Hers is a voice listened to by millions of readers." Follow [@RobertaSmithNYT] (https://www.instagram.com/robertasmithnyt/?hl=en) on Instagram and [Twitter] (https://twitter.com/robertasmithnyt?lang=en) . Read [www.nytimes.com/by/roberta-smith] (https://www.nytimes.com/by/roberta-smith) Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

10 Nov 2023

1 HR 23 MINS

1:23:40

10 Nov 2023


#269

Sara Sadik, presented by BMW

New Talk Art! We meet artist Sara Sadik, presented by BMW. Sara Sadik (b. 1994, FR) is inspired by what she terms “beurcore”: the youth culture developed by working-class members of the Maghrebi diaspora. Her work brings together video, performance, installation and photography in order to explore beurcore’s manifestations, while her references span music, language, fashion, social networks and science fiction. These narratives, which the artist regularly features in, often document and analyse beurcore’s social and aesthetic symbols. Starting from a semiological and sociological analysis of the “beurness”, Sadik goes on to hijack these social clichés by deconstructing and reintegrating them into fictions. For the seventh consecutive year, Frieze and BMW continue their long-term partnership with the art initiativeBMW Open Work.French artistSara Sadikworked closely with BMW to present “LA POTION (EH)” - a video and gaming experience, using BMW’s My Modes and the new AirConsole technology of the BMW i5 as a playing device. Both works premiered in October at KOKO inside the BMW Open Work Lounge during Frieze London. In celebration of their collaboration, Frieze and BMW also invited London-based musicianLoyle Carneras this year'sFrieze Musicperformer. We loved seeing his concert! BMW Open Workis a joint initiative between Frieze and BMW, bringing together art, innovation, technology and design in a pioneering multi-platform format. Curated byAttilia Fattori Franchini, BMW Open Work invites an artist to develop an ambitious project utilising BMW technology and design to pursue their practice in new directions. This year, the invited artist is Marseille-based Sara Sadik, whose practice lies halfway between fiction and documentary. Her work, be it video or performance, is inspired by video games, anime, science-fiction as well as French rap, and puts forward characters facing challenges and striving to achieve moral and physical transformation through initiatory stories. Conceived as part of BMW Open Work 2023,“LA POTION (EH)”continues the artist’s interest in the possibilities of computer-generated scenarios and her investigation into the changing emotional states of young male characters. The project unfolds as an interactive video game, devised to be played exclusively in the new, fully electric BMW i5 as well as a video installation presented both on the public-facing terrace of KOKO and inside the BMW Lounge. Guided by the Avatar Neregy, a virtually alienated character who struggles to connect with people, the viewer follows him across different worlds, tasks, and challenges to complete his quest for psychological healing and transformation. Learn more at [https://frieze.com/bmw-open-work] (https://frieze.com/bmw-open-work) Follow [@SaraSadik] (https://www.instagram.com/sarasadikofficiel/?hl=en) and [@BMWGroupCulture] (https://www.instagram.com/bmwgroupculture/) on Instagram. Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

07 Nov 2023

1 HR 07 MINS

1:07:46

07 Nov 2023


#268

Marina Abramović

It's the FIFTH ANNIVERSARY of TALK ART!!! And what better way to CELEBRATE than meeting one of our all-time favourite artists, the warrior of performance art, Marina Abramović. We meet in her hotel room in Green Park to discuss more than 5 DECADES of making art. An art world icon and a performance art pioneer – Marina Abramović has captivated audiences by pushing the limits of her body and mind, for the past 50 years. [Marina Abramović Hon RA] (https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/marina-abramovic-hon-ra) has earned worldwide acclaim as a performance artist. She has consistently tested the limits of her own physical and mental endurance in her work, subjecting herself to exhaustion, pain and even the possibility of death. In her early workRhythm 0, Abramović invited audiences to freely interact with her however they chose – famously resulting in a loaded gun being held to her head. Her later workThe House with the Ocean Viewsaw the artist live in a house constructed in a gallery for 12 days. Held in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York, the performance invited audiences to witness and share in the simple act of living. This major exhibition presents key moments from Abramović’s career through sculpture, video, installation and performance. Works such asThe Artist is Presentwill be strikingly re-staged through archive footage while others will be reperformed by the next generation of performance artists, trained in the Marina Abramović method. Live performance art can be both startling and intimate. For Abramović it also has the power to be transformative. Experience this yourself through performances ofImponderabilia, Nude with Skeleton, LuminosityandThe House with the Ocean View. Visit the Royal Academy's major retrospective of 50+ years of Marina's work until 1st January 2024. Buy tickets here: [https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/marina-abramovic] (https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/marina-abramovic) Follow [@AbramovicInstitute] (https://www.instagram.com/abramovicinstitute/?hl=en) on Instagram and [@RoyalAcademyArts] (https://www.instagram.com/royalacademyarts/) #MarinaAbramovićRA Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

03 Nov 2023

59 MINS

59:23

03 Nov 2023


#267

Most Wanted Collective (Special Episode)

🍷🎨💫New @TalkArt! We welcome the MOST WANTED COLLECTIVE!! Over the last few months we have collaboratedwith Most Wanted Wines to commission a series of limited-edition bottles designed by artists from lesser-represented communities. ❤A true celebration of diversity through creativity, and in this podcast we get to hear from the artists. 🎨We chose the 3 artists because we felt their work would connect with diverse audiences and inspire people with their symbolic, captivating and striking artwork. Each artist has a unique perspective and style which creates a very special series of designs for each wine bottle. 🎤In the episode we chew the fat with Tejumola Butler Adenuga [@butlerarchive] (https://www.instagram.com/butlerarchive/) , Ana Curbelo [@untepid] (https://www.instagram.com/untepid/) and Anshika Khullar [@aorists] (https://www.instagram.com/aorists/) ,as well as Calum Hall from @creativedebutswho we worked with to select the artists. We discuss their work, influences and pinpoint social issues that present barriers to creativity...and trust us when we say that there are some amazing personal and emotive stories. 🍷Most Wanted Wines believethat good wine, just like good art, should and can be enjoyed by everyone, and aimto make both wine and art as inclusive as possible. 🔗Follow [@MostWantedWines] (https://www.instagram.com/mostwantedwines/?hl=en-gb) and visit [www.mostwantedwines.co.uk] (http://www.mostwantedwines.co.uk/) 🔗FollowAnshika Khullar [@aorists] (https://www.instagram.com/aorists/) 🔗FollowAna Curbelo [@untepid] (https://www.instagram.com/untepid/) 🔗FollowTejumola Butler Adenuga [@butlerarchive] (https://www.instagram.com/butlerarchive/) 🔗Follow Calum Hall [@creativedebuts] (https://www.instagram.com/creativedebuts/?hl=en) 🍷The special edition Collective 2.0 bottles are available nationwide #AD Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

01 Nov 2023

54 MINS

54:43

01 Nov 2023


#266

Es Devlin CBE

Artist and Stage Designer, Es Devlin’s work explores biodiversity, linguistic diversity and collective ai-generated poetry. She views the audience as a temporary society and encourages profound cognitive shifts by inviting public participation in communal choral works. Her canvas ranges from public sculptures and installations at Tate Modern, V&A, Serpentine, Imperial War Museum and United Nations General Assembly, to kinetic stage designs at the Royal Opera House, the National Theatre and the Metropolitan Opera, as well as Olympic ceremonies, Super-Bowl half-time shows, and monumental illuminated stage sculptures for Beyoncé, The Weeknd, Dr Dre, Kendrick Lamar and U2. She is the subject of a major new monographic book, An Atlas of Es Devlin, described by Thames & Hudson as their most intricate and sculptural publication to date, and a retrospective exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum of Design in New York. She was the first female designer of the UK pavilion at Expo 2020 and her practice was the subject of the Netflix documentary series Abstract: The Art of Design. She has been awarded the London Design Medal, three Olivier awards, a Tony award, an Ivor Novello award, Doctorates from the Universities of Bristol, Kent and the University of the Arts London as well as Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal Society of Arts and CBE. Visit: [https://EsDevlin.com/] (https://esdevlin.com/) and Follow [@EsDevlin] (https://www.instagram.com/esdevlin/?hl=en) Buy Es Devlin's major new book [An Atlas of Es Devlin] (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Es-Devlin-Suspension-Disbelief/dp/0500023182/ref=asc_df_0500023182/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=499247585259&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7850699297057784704&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9045886&hvtargid=pla-1278693190481&psc=1&th=1&psc=1) at all good bookstores including [Waterstone's] (https://www.waterstones.com/book/an-atlas-of-es-devlin/es-devlin/andrea-lipps/9780500023181?sv1=affiliate&sv_campaign_id=259955&awc=3787_1698311609_55e21c8931ca01f8ff814cedaec069f7&utm_source=259955&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=Genie+Shopping+CSS) . Published by Thames & Hudson: [https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/an-atlas-of-es-devlin-hardcover] (https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/an-atlas-of-es-devlin-hardcover) Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

26 Oct 2023

1 HR 17 MINS

1:17:04

26 Oct 2023


#265

Phoebe Collings-James

We meet artist Phoebe Collings-James whose work often eludes linear retellings of stories. Instead, her works function as “emotional detritus”: they speak of knowledges of feelings, the debris of violence, language and desire which are inherent to living and surviving within hostile environments. Recent works have been dealing with the object as subject, giving life and tension to ceramic forms. As young nettle, a musical alias, she loves sound that totally envelopes her and is part of B.O.S.S., a QTIBIPOC sound system based in South London. Drawn to high octane sensual emotional sound, with heavy bass and wild lyrical flows, she creates sound design for original music productions. Including Sounds 4 Survival, an undulating live performance created with SERAFINE1369, which asks the question of what an anti-assimilationist practice can be. As the 2021 Freelands Ceramic Fellow she has an upcoming exhibition at Camden Arts Centre, London, in autumn 2021. Collings-James’s Mudbelly ceramics studio began as a personal practice and research outlet, but has since grown to encompass a shop and a teaching facility offering free ceramics courses for Black people in London, taught by Black ceramicists. Phoebe's new exhibition Bun Babylon; A Heretics Anthology, runs until 28 October 2023 at Arcadia Missa gallery, London. [https://arcadiamissa.com/bun-babylon-a-heretics-anthology/] (https://arcadiamissa.com/bun-babylon-a-heretics-anthology/) Follow [@PhoebeTheGorgon] (https://www.instagram.com/phoebethegorgon/?hl=en) and [@ArcadiaMissa] (https://www.instagram.com/arcadiamissa/?hl=en) Visit: [https://www.phoebecollingsjames.com/] (https://www.phoebecollingsjames.com/) and [https://arcadiamissa.com/phoebe-collings-james/] (https://arcadiamissa.com/phoebe-collings-james/) Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

19 Oct 2023

1 HR 13 MINS

1:13:06

19 Oct 2023


#264

Sophie von Hellermann

We meet artist Sophie von Hellermann (b. 1975, Munich) at her studio in Margate, as she created brand new paintings for her Frieze London 2023 solo booth with Pilar Corrias Gallery. It's an epic installation including a giant hand-painted mural alongside a new series of Margate-themed paintings. Dreamland, Margate’s iconic funfair, is the inspiration behind a new body of work, featuring carousels, Ferris wheels and soothsayers. Opening in 1870 as a ‘pleasure garden’ set within the coastal resort of Margate, where the artist lives and works, Dreamland has become a symbol of classic British seaside culture: bawdy revelry, tongue-in-cheek humour, decaying grandeur and sepia-tinted sentimentality. Bringing the funfair to the art fair, von Hellermann builds a carnival populated by a menagerie of characters from literature and popular culture: bathers frolic, seagulls swoop across swirling, Turner-esque skies, and lovers embrace in shadowy corners of the Victorian seafront shelter where TS Eliot wrote his classic work,The Waste Land(1922). Unburdened by the gravities of everyday life, Dreamland’s thrill-seekers begin to sprout wings, or career off into new phantasmic landscapes. In one painting, a group ride tiny cups down an eerie, rainbow-hued river; elsewhere a visitor to a house of mirrors dances and flirts with his own reflections. As inJean-Honoré Fragonard’sThe Swing(1767–8), a painting that epitomises the playfulness and joie de vivre of its era,von Hellermann deliberately reclaims a host of clichés associated with pleasure, frivolity and a temporary loss of control. In her rapidly executed tableaux, von Hellermann fuses the trivial and the grandiose, playing with traditional rules of seriousness and propriety in painting. Sophie von Hellermann’s paintings recall the look of fables, legends, and traditional stories that are imbued with the workings of her subconscious rather than the content of existing images. Her romantic, pastel-washed canvases are often installed to suggest complex narrative threads. Von Hellermann applies pure pigment directly onto unprimed canvas, her use of broad-brushed washes imbues a sense of weightlessness to her pictures. Von Hellermann’s paintings draw upon current affairs as often and as fluidly as they borrow from the imagery of classical mythology and literature to create expansive imaginary places. In subject matter and style, von Hellermann tests imagination against reality. Sophie von Hellermann (b. 1975, Munich) received her BFA from Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf and an MFA from Royal College of Art, London. She lives and works in London and Margate, United Kingdom. Follow [@SophieVonHellermann] (https://www.instagram.com/sophievonhellermann/?hl=en) and [@PilarCorrias] (https://www.instagram.com/pilarcorrias/) View the works: [https://www.pilarcorrias.com/art-fairs/22-frieze-london-2023-sophie-von-hellermann-dreamland/] (https://www.pilarcorrias.com/art-fairs/22-frieze-london-2023-sophie-von-hellermann-dreamland/) and visit Frieze London until Sunday 15th October. Sophie's solo is located at Booth A23. Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

12 Oct 2023

59 MINS

59:26

12 Oct 2023


#263

Eva Jospin, presented by Ruinart

Talk Art Special LIVE EPISODE with Ruinart!We met leadingFrenchartist EVA JOSPIN! Live from London's Frieze week, this inspiring episode was recorded in the Serpentine Pavilion designed by Lina Ghotmeh in front of a live audience. With the belief art can enlighten and connect us, Ruinart gives Carte Blanche to leading contemporary artists every year to pay tribute to the Maison’s legacy, this year French Artist Eva Jospin. As part of the Carte Blanche program Eva Jospin imagined an artistic and sensory encounter offering her vision of the terroir of Maison Ruinart. Like a cross-sectional landscape, the site of the Montagne de Reims appeared to the French artist as composed of different geological and temporal strata, real and imaginary. Eva Jospin is passionate about the richness of this region and the know-how transmitted there: from the underground world of the crayères to the roots and interlacing vines; from the coronation of the kings of France in Reims Cathedral to the ennoblement of the Ruinart family under Charles X; and from the conversion of the old chalk quarries into cellars to the Maison’s expanded commitment to supporting biodiversity. PROMENADE(S),aseries of drawings, sculptures and embroideries, invites each of us to immerse ourselves in this landscape, as if plunging into a mysterious story intertwining the cycles of history and plants, life and creation.It is on show now at Frieze London in the Ruinart Art Bar until 15 October. More can be found out at [Ruinart.com] (Ruinart.com) Follow [@Ruinart] (https://www.instagram.com/ruinart) Please drink responsibly THANKS FOR LISTENING!!! Special thanks to everyone who got a ticket and came to watch this episode recording Live in London!!! Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

10 Oct 2023

55 MINS

55:39

10 Oct 2023


#262

Rafał Zajko

We meet artist Rafał Zajko (b.1988, Białystok, Poland). Zajko’s work deals with issues around the industrial past, exploring its environmental impact in relation to working class heritage and queer identities. His sculptural practice incorporates diverse materials and processes including ceramics, ventilation systems, prosthetics and performance as a means to examine folklore, science fiction and queer technoscience, placing an emphasis on the industrial materials and processes that resonate with his heritage. Zajko is currently working on a public commission with Wysing Arts Centre and St. Peters School in Cambridge, performance commission ‘Techno Harvest’ for Deptford X festival and a new sculptural commission for Kunsthalle Vienna in autumn 2023. He studied for an an MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art, London, UK. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Amber Waves II’, Galeria Fran Reus, Palma, Mallorca, SP (2022), ‘Song to the Siren', Cooke Latham Gallery, London, UK (2022), ‘Amber Waves’, Public Gallery, London, UK (2021), ‘Resuscitation’, Castor Projects, London, UK (2020), ‘We Were Here/My Tu Bylismy’, Galeria Im. Slendzinskich, Białystok, PL (2019) and ‘Unputdownable’, White Cubicle, London, UK (2018). Selected group exhibitions include ‘Support Structures’, Gathering, London (2023), ‘Swiat nie wierzy lzom’, Galeria Arsenal, Białystok, Poland (2022), ‘London Open 2022’, Whitechapel Gallery, London Uk (2022), ‘New Contemporaries 2021’, South London Gallery, London, UK (2021), ‘26 Degrees East’, Wiels Annex, Brussels, Belgium (2020), ‘Age of Ephemerality’, X Museum, Beijing, CN (2020), 'Clay TM’, TJ Boulting, London, UK (2020) and ‘Bold Tendencies 2020’, London, UK (2020). In 2020 Zajko was the recipient of the Bow Graduation Studio Award. Visit: RAFAŁ ZAJKO CLOCKING OFF open now and runs until 26th November 2023: [https://queercircle.org/rafal/] (https://queercircle.org/rafal/) Nearest tube: North Greenwich. Free entry. Follow [@Rafal_Zajko] (https://www.instagram.com/rafal_zajko/?hl=en) and [@QueerCircle] (https://www.instagram.com/queercircle/?hl=en) Rafal's website is: [https://www.rafal-zajko.com/] (https://www.rafal-zajko.com/) Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

05 Oct 2023

57 MINS

57:55

05 Oct 2023


#261

Bengi Ünsal - ICA London

We meet Bengi Ünsal, Director of ICA London which is celebrating its landmark 75th year. She is the second woman to serve as the Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts and has been successfully refocusing their commitment to live music, live performances alongside extensive visual arts, film and education programmes. (As we discover in this episode, the first female Director was [Dorothy Morland from 1952-1968] (https://liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2021/05/24/dorothy-morland-the-first-female-director-of-the-ica/#:~:text=Dorothy%20Morland%20(1906%2D1999),of%20Contemporary%20Arts%20in%20London.) ,who was also the longest running the ICA for 18 years). The Institute of Contemporary Arts is much more than a museum. Since its inception in 1947 as the first truly multi-disciplinary arts organisation, the ICA has always been a progressive, alternative, and a safe place for artists who are looking beyond the mainstream: the ones who are willing to go beyond the status quo, and those who take risks and defy definitions. Today, the ICA remains at the heart of contemporary culture in London, commissioning, producing, and presenting urgent new work in film, music, performance, digital art, and the visual arts, by the most vital and provocative artists of our time. Follow [@ICAlondon] (https://instagram.com/icalondon?igshid=NzZhOTFlYzFmZQ==) and [@BengiUnsal] (https://instagram.com/bengiunsal?igshid=NzZhOTFlYzFmZQ==) Visit [@CounterEditions] (https://instagram.com/countereditions?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) for 8 new fundraising prints to celebrate 75 Years of the ICA. Find prints here: [https://www.countereditions.com] (https://www.countereditions.com/offers/ica-75-years-launch-day-3.html) Before the ICA, Bengi was the head of contemporary music at the Southbank Centre, the UK’s largest arts centre and one of the most-visited attractions in the country. During her tenure, she was responsible for a year-round programme of more than 200 gigs and contemporary music performances across its venues. She oversaw the award-winning artist-curated Meltdown festival, alongside guest curators M.I.A in 2017, Robert Smith (2018), Nile Rodgers (2019) and Grace Jones, who brought together artists including Peaches and Skunk Anansie for the 27th edition earlier this year. Under her leadership, the Southbank Centre launched its first regular club night, Concrete Lates, in 2018, and futuretense, a weekly free slot for international emerging music talent, delivered in partnership with BBC Music Introducing. As multifaceted as her work, Ünsal is a DJ, has run her own events company, launched a festival, and has worked for radio and music TV channels, Universal Music and BMG. Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. ... Read more

28 Sep 2023

48 MINS

48:48

28 Sep 2023