A Conversation With Salvatore Vitale: Security is Hereditary?
“You’re right in saying that it is an examination of power, because power needs to be examined in order to be structured”
Gerard Petrus Fieret: Interview With Diane Dufour, Le Bal
“The huge and quite exaggerated size of his signatures, the mushrooming of his stamps with the clear mention of the copyright “by G. Fieret” render apparent Fieret’s excessive need for recognition. Those are also signs of some sort of defensive strategy from a legal point of view – Fieret always felt threatened by the idea of being stolen or plagiarized”
Shelter Island: A Conversation With Roe Ethridge
“I’d say there is a duality that is keeping things unresolved. The narrative isn’t faux, it’s mine and not mine”
Yoshi Kametani’s Played: Margins of Timing
“We have inherited a way of understanding events and time through images or are allowed to fashion our own prognosis of the interpretation of linear elements by looking inward and at the spaces between images…”
Francis Alÿs: Paradox of Praxis 5
Ciudad Juárez, México, 2013. In collaboration with Rafael Ortega, Julien Devaux, Alejandro Morales and Félix Blume.
Wolfgang Tillmans: Faces in the Crowd
Corinne on Gloucester Place, 1993 Wolfgang Tillmans has consistently pushed back against whatever perceptions of his work seem most current. The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. —Ezra Pound By Russell Ferguson, excerpt from “Faces in the Crowd” Wolfgang Tillmans has consistently pushed back against whatever perceptions of […]
Picturing Barbara Kruger – A Five Minute Portrait of the Artist (2016)
Directed by Pippa Bianco: Picturing Barbara Kruger is a five-minute portrait of this iconic artist. Narrated by Barbara Kruger with an original score by Nico Jaar featuring Kanye West’s “Blood On The Leaves,” commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for the ART+FILM series. Special thanks to Kanye West for the use of […]
Storehouse of Analogies: An Interview with Marton Perlaki
“I like to think of Elemer as a symbolic character in the series. His appearance instantly made me think of fragility. This is one of the reasons why I found him perfect for the series as the one and only human protagonist.”