Franz Kline Discussing Black and White (1960)
“I mean there was that twenty-minute experience of thinking, well, all my life has been wasted but this is marvellous…” – Franz Kline
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Brassai Interviews Pablo Picasso: An excerpt from ‘Conversations with Picasso’
Girl Before A Mirror by Pablo Picasso “People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It’s ridiculous!” – Picasso An excerpt from Conversations with Picasso by Brassaï Wednesday 20 October 1943 The table, only yesterday covered with dust, is completely clean. Catalogs, brochures, books, and letters have been carefully dusted and even arranged by size […]
Arthur Mole ‘Living Photographs’ : Patriotism and the Slippery Slope to Nationalism
“If these pictures have a palette, it is a logic of Caucasian biology and codified dress”. By Izabella Scott, ASX, December 2015 Arthur Mole’s “living portraits”, easily mistaken for small-town pansy decorations, are composed with bodies: ‘The Human Liberty Bell’ is concocted with the bodies of 15,000 soldiers; ‘A Living Portrait of Woodrow Wilson’, with […]
Ed Ruscha on Wanting a Product and a Final Result
Heaven Hell @ Ed Ruscha “I have really no direction, I have no plans. I can’t write my future. I can’t write my own history. I’m most fascinated by that one idea of the things that are undone now, will be done in five years time.” – Ed Ruscha MR. RUSCHA: I think the […]
An Interview with Larry Clark: “If It’s Part of Life, It’s (Not) Pornography”
“No it’s not!” I said, “I’m going to prove to you that it’s not. I can do this and it’s not pornography!”
Hedi Slimane – ‘California Song’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7Tnb1BEFNw
A Conversation with Alec Soth (2015)
On ‘Gathered Leaves’ at the Media Space, Science Museum
The (Im)possibilities to Shoot as a White Photographer on the African Continent
Now, it’s hard to defend yourself if you are in possession of the ‘white privilege’, as I am…
ASX.TV: Doug Rickard “N.A.” (excerpt) (2015)
Little Big Man Gallery – Los Angeles Video by Doug Rickard Original score by Greg Magnuson 2014-2015.
Nico Krijno: Enemy of Convention Unseen 2015
“The enemy of photography is the convention, the fixed rules of ‘how to do.’ The salvation of photography comes from the experiment”. 1947, László Moholy-Nagy Nico Krijno at Unseen 2015 with The Ravestijn Gallery, Booth 51 Nico Krijno is South African artist whose works inspire a certain aptitude for the photographic medium where color, form, […]
Forever Lost in Transit: Piotr Zbierski @ Unseen
“For me photography is an intimate medium. It helps expressing myself but after all, it allows me to be closer to life and people, to look straight into their eyes.” By Karin Bareman, ASX, September 2015 The sun blazing into the frame, the boy lying on the blanket in the grass, the girl showering after […]
An Interview with Kehrer Gallery @ Unseen
”A book and a space are two different media, or in other words: display cases. Thinking about the gallery program for us means thinking about showing substantial art in a space in order to meet the constant challenge of making good exhibitions”. An Interview with Kehrer Gallery @ Unseen By Brad Feuerhelm BF: Kehrer Gallery […]