Le Journal Interviews

Born in France in 1970, Israeli artist Michel Platnic’s preoccupation with the human form is vivid in his latest works, where he challenges the boundaries of artistic mediums by merging technology with tradition. In a nod to the work of Francis Bacon, Platnic’s ‘living paintings’ expand on ...

Posted: January 26th, 2016

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You were born in Cairo with Armenian heritage, and spent much of your early career in Egypt. How did your upbringing and culture lead you to work in sculpture? Armen Agop: Egypt is a great place for a sculptor to be born, but it is hard to say whether I would not have done sculpture …

Posted: January 26th, 2016

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Pascal Dombis is a French visual artist whose works explore the complexities of visual paradoxes using intricate technological process. Over his more than 20-year career, Dombis has been using computers and algorithms to generate excessive repetitions of simple processes that computationally ...

Posted: January 26th, 2016

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Many of the scenes captured in Hypothetical Arrangements are inspired by photographs taken from interior design books.  Why did you decide to use these images as your starting point? Dane Patterson: For this show I wanted to begin with spaces that had a very clear design aesthetic to deviate from. ...

Posted: January 26th, 2016

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Tian Taiquan is a Chinese artist whose subversive photography imbued with poetry transgresses the political codes established in China while expressing a violent criticism on the Cultural Revolution. Paradoxically evocative, Tian Taiquan’s photographs address both desires and sufferings leaving ...

Posted: January 26th, 2016

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Siddhartha Tawadey was born in Calcutta, India and studied art and photography at St Martin’s School of Design and City University in London. Works from the artist’s series Decadence of the Abandoned highlight the abject beauty of possessions that have been discarded. The over-abundance of ...

Posted: January 25th, 2016

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How did you come to make the Monsoon series? Sherman Ong: I was in Hanoi for my artist residency under the Goethe Institut Art Connexions project. I had already started on a visual haiku series, Hanoi Haiku, when this series came to me by chance during a hailstorm one afternoon in Hanoi. On that ...

Posted: January 25th, 2016

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You work with industrial materials such as Corten steel and aluminium. Is this a purely aesthetic choice? Have you always been working with these materials? Jedd Novatt: When I started out as a sculptor, my options were limited and based predominately on accessibility. I started working with mild ...

Posted: January 25th, 2016

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Chinese artist Fu Lei was born in Beijing, China. He established his studio in the 798 district in 2002 and continues working there today. The artist known for his plump figures speaks to us about his creative process. Could you please tell us a little bit about yourself and your family background? ...

Posted: January 25th, 2016

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Agathe de Bailliencourt is a French artist born in 1974 and currently living in Berlin. Working both in her studio on canvas, paper or linen and also outdoors directly onto urban space, architecture or nature, the artist feeds one medium with the experience of the other in a constant dialogue. ...

Posted: January 22nd, 2016

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What was your first work of art and how did it come about? Adriana Molder: I think my first work of art was a drawing I did of my cat Mimi and her kitten when I was about seven – or eight-years-old. I’ve chosen this drawing because I remember that I had quite a unique …

Posted: January 22nd, 2016

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Why is drawing so important to you, as a medium? Qiu Jie: I have used pencil since I was a child when, in China, we did not have enough money to buy more material. I was forced to use what I had. When I started to study art at Ecole des Beaux Arts in Geneva, I …

Posted: January 22nd, 2016

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