At the Edge of the Center: Conversation with Maurizio Mercuri
Maurizio Cattelan: Hi Maurizio. We haven’t been in contact since Christmas. Do you still collect objects? It seems like your…
Interviews
Who wants to be a Perdigiorno? A conversation with Beatrice Marchi and Mia Sanchez
The following dialogue is due to introduce, prepare for, reflect on, and perhaps accompany the artists’ exhibition “La Città e…
Material Traces of the Immaterial: A Conversation with Penny Goring
Caroline Elbaor: First off, sincere congratulations on this pair of exhibitions. That leads to my initial question: Were these shows…
“Before and After Math”: Jim Shaw at Metro Pictures / New York
Now that Jim Shaw believes he’s washed his toxic obsession with Donald Trump out his system (see last year’s show…
A conversation with Math Bass
Eve Fowler: The last four or so paintings in the Vielmetter show seem to me much more “you” than anything…
Radical Futures: A Conversation with Josh Kline
This conversation took place in May 2020. The text was originally published in Flash Art no 349 Estate 2020 –…
Donatien Grau’s Homage to Pierre Guyotat’s Eden, Eden, Eden on its 50th Anniversary
Donatien Grau is faithful to his idols. Pierre Guyotat is one of them. In 2016, Donatien realized the exhibition “Pierre…
Leilah Weinraub: It’s a Zone
Leilah Weinraub’s Shakedown (2018) is a seventy-minute record of a Black-owned-and-operated lesbian strip club in Los Angeles, active in the…
Daiga Grantina Discusses “What Eats Around Itself” at the New Museum, New York
Alex Bennett: Though your work involves sculptural assemblages of extremely diverse material, it’s curious to know that film was your…
Patrick Staff Discusses “On Venus” at the Serpentine Galleries / London
Quinn Harrelson: Tell me about your exhibition “On Venus” at the Serpentine. Patrick Staff: It’s all new work. Although it…
Cross-Species Communication and Bio-Sensing Art of the 1970s and 80s: A Conversation with Richard Lowenberg
Thinking back on the hallucinogenic American postwar art scene, one envisions that hazy confluence of networks and disciplines native to…
Anastasia Mityukova’s Project Iceworm
“Project Iceworm” was a mid-twentieth-century mission undertaken — then abandoned — by the U.S. military to test nuclear missiles in…
To Follow or To Fall. A conversation with Otobong Nkanga
Otobong Nkanga’s research addresses the relationship between man and nature, showing its historical impact, underlying narratives, and latent colonialism. Land…
On Failure, Decay, and New Forms of Responsibility. A Conversation with Ibrahim Mahama
Architecture, and the dissonance between its history, form and function is paramount to artist Ibrahim Mahama, representing Ghana at the…
SCCA – The Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art, Tamale (Ghana). An Interview with Bernard Akoi-Jackson
March 15 marked the opening of the SCCA, an artist-run centre, situated in the Northern Regional capital of Tamale, Ghana.…
Laurent Grasso Galerie Perrotin / Paris
Claudio Santoro in conversation with Laurent Grasso at Galerie Perrotin in Paris.