Grace Hartigan on Franz Kline (and Willem de Kooning): “It Had Nothing to do with Death”
No one was selling any work then, understand that. All these things that you know about now. I could tell you story after story.
Francis Bacon on Violence, Suffering and Painting for Himself
Painting, 1946 @ The Estate of Francis Bacon “”I think that life is violent and most people turn away from that side of it in an attempt to live a life that is screened. But I think they are merely fooling themselves. I mean, the act of birth is a violent thing, and the act […]
A Conversation with Ron Jude: The Staccato Memory
“This work is about something else, something more abstract. The function of the desert and Salton Sea in Lago is more psychological than political. ” – Ron Jude
On Life, Death, God and Working Very Little – In Conversation with Christian Boltanski (2015)
“To be spiritual is to look for the key. So yes. My art is only questions. If you want to call it spiritual, it is spiritual.” – Christian Boltanski
Peter Doig Discussing Sigmar Polke
“Polke would make use of other people’s drawings or would reference amateur works. Also, his take on popular culture was not always about things that were recognisable.”
Juergen Teller Discussing “Go-Sees” and Ping-Pong
from Go-Sees @ Juergen Teller “For me I realised, in a way, within that period, ninety-eight/ninety-nine, kind of stepping back from fashion, realised what kind of a sense of power you have as a man, and what sense of power you have as a photographer.” – Juergen Teller Excerpt from an interview with the Tate, […]
Marc Riboud on Photography, Hard Work and How We are All the Same
Tthe more cultures and countries you get exposed to, the more you see that people are alike. We are all the same.” Marc Riboud
Jacob Lawrence: On Black Artists Compared to White Artists – Unequal Pay, Unequal Society
The Migration Series Panel no. 17 @ Jacob Lawrence “We know that the Negro artist does have a problem, you see. He has a problem far beyond that of the white artist, speaking generally. We know this. So we must say we know this, we accept this fact.” – Jacob Lawrence Excerpt from an Interview of […]
Prince of Boredom: The Repetitions and Passivities of Andy Warhol
Sidney Janis, 1967 Silk-screening makes repetition part of the meaning of the image. Even one silk-screened print is felt as a repetition, and Warhol repeats these images until repetition is magnified into a theme of variance and invariance, and of the success and failures of identicalness. Prince of Boredom: The Repetitions and Passivities of Andy […]
Willem de Kooning: What Abstract Art Means to Me (1951)
Queen of Hearts, 1943-46 @ The Willem de Kooning Foundation “It is very interesting to notice that a lot of people who want to take the talking out of painting, for instance, do nothing else but talk about it.” – Willem de Kooning What Abstract Art Means to Me By Willem de Kooning, February […]
In Conversation with Wim Wenders and Donata Wenders (2015)
Blue Range, Butte, Montana, 2000 @ Wim Wenders “It’s (spirituality) driving my work. You cannot separate. I cannot say I have a professional life and apart from that I am also a spiritual person. I cannot keep that apart.” – Wim Wenders In Conversation with Wim Wenders and Donata Wenders by Sabine Mirlesse Sabine Mirlesse: […]
An Interview with Greg Girard: Vancouver to Kowloon – Watching Globalisation Unfold
Silver Grill Cafe, 1975 ‘When I grew up here, Vancouver was a working port town, and all the streets downtown ended at the harbour. That working port was very much a part of the feel of the city…’ – Greg Girard For almost 30 years, Canadian photographer Greg Girard has lived and worked in […]