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Jean-Luc Gabriel Douzant
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mercoledì 3 luglio 2013
Interview with Burhan Özgün Sen
q )Walk us through an intimate day in your life
a)Well i wake up mainly mainly early in the morning but depends on my projects
because many nights in a week i prefer to work
in the nights so i dont sleep and i automaticly wake up early Then just check my project calendar and start to work.. I like to
meet with friends also in the middle of day in my studio or in one park to drink couple of beer in a day.. Actually i dont have any
organised life schedule because of my producing mode. Many days i dont touch any paper if i dont feel good for painting and i'm losing
some projects because of this reason but i dont like to force myself to produce because to keep my style in that way,i should see,touch
talk and when i hae enough to reflect ,i like to draw it. I guess its my big problem to think on professional way. But my days are mainly
passing thinking on my actual project or drawing on my actual project.
in the nights so i dont sleep and i automaticly wake up early Then just check my project calendar and start to work.. I like to
meet with friends also in the middle of day in my studio or in one park to drink couple of beer in a day.. Actually i dont have any
organised life schedule because of my producing mode. Many days i dont touch any paper if i dont feel good for painting and i'm losing
some projects because of this reason but i dont like to force myself to produce because to keep my style in that way,i should see,touch
talk and when i hae enough to reflect ,i like to draw it. I guess its my big problem to think on professional way. But my days are mainly
passing thinking on my actual project or drawing on my actual project.
q) Where did you grow up/where do you live now and how does that
contribute to your art?
a)I grow in Eskisehir/Turkey. I studied also for a while there then i
move to Berlin
inBerlin
there. In 2012 i lived both inSpain
and Berlin
comunicating with the people and mix this different cultures. Because i was thinking in Turkish, producing in theSpain
and selling in
Germany
any special atmosphere or special place to produce because i was running to catch my school and work deadlines and mainly i had a time to work just in the airports or to one friend’s home where i can stay for a couple of weeks. Now i have my studio here inBerlin
the place with one bike designer,one artist and some fashion designer. This is also teaching me how to design in another disciplines and i really
like to learn this kind of way id design because for me, its more important to have way of thinking then how or what you design.
in
there. In 2012 i lived both in
comunicating with the people and mix this different cultures. Because i was thinking in Turkish, producing in the
any special atmosphere or special place to produce because i was running to catch my school and work deadlines and mainly i had a time to work just in the airports or to one friend’s home where i can stay for a couple of weeks. Now i have my studio here in
the place with one bike designer,one artist and some fashion designer. This is also teaching me how to design in another disciplines and i really
like to learn this kind of way id design because for me, its more important to have way of thinking then how or what you design.
q) How do you wish for your art to be perceived?
a)Actually i'm also wondering this because mainly people give so strange
reactions to my paintings but i dont have any expectations from the
people. If its one illustration for my clients, i just use some elements to give the message but i would like to give them secretly
because for me subliminal messages are more effective and more personal. If its my personal project,i'm mainly focus on my feelings
because people see whatever they can see they want to see. Depends on their subliminal way of thinking and subliminal perceptions. Some people tought my illustrations are really scary and some people think they are funny drawings. Its just up to their memorial subconscious.
people. If its one illustration for my clients, i just use some elements to give the message but i would like to give them secretly
because for me subliminal messages are more effective and more personal. If its my personal project,i'm mainly focus on my feelings
because people see whatever they can see they want to see. Depends on their subliminal way of thinking and subliminal perceptions. Some people tought my illustrations are really scary and some people think they are funny drawings. Its just up to their memorial subconscious.
q) What do your internal dialogues sound like?
a)Mainly my psycology is between black and white. Many days i'm so
optimistic about the life but its kind of one pair of scales. If i'm
super positive a couple of weeks, then another part of the scale is going so down and to keep my balance ,i'm getting a bit dark. I guess
the life is like this, our black parts always need the white parts and our worlds just sharing around it. I dont like to have totally
bright world, i should be sad and negative to keep my ego based balance because my work is just reflection of my psycology and i cant see the white parts of the life if there is now black around it.
super positive a couple of weeks, then another part of the scale is going so down and to keep my balance ,i'm getting a bit dark. I guess
the life is like this, our black parts always need the white parts and our worlds just sharing around it. I dont like to have totally
bright world, i should be sad and negative to keep my ego based balance because my work is just reflection of my psycology and i cant see the white parts of the life if there is now black around it.
q) Do you feel that there are limitations to what you want to create?
a)Well , actually sometimes i'm getting bored from Azuldecobalt
character because after a while i started to think like azuldecobalt, and
in his style. Many times i'm trying another styles or another way of reactions but i'm blocking myslef immediately because i saw its not
azuldecobalt's style. Azuldecobalt started to pass in front of my real character and actually i'm planning to create one new character like
azuldecobalt because its like acting all of your life in the same tv serial. I would like to learn and evolve myself with another visions
another way of think. Hope i can success on it if azuldecobalt let me one day .
in his style. Many times i'm trying another styles or another way of reactions but i'm blocking myslef immediately because i saw its not
azuldecobalt's style. Azuldecobalt started to pass in front of my real character and actually i'm planning to create one new character like
azuldecobalt because its like acting all of your life in the same tv serial. I would like to learn and evolve myself with another visions
another way of think. Hope i can success on it if azuldecobalt let me one day .
q) Do you feel art is vital to survival and if so, why?
a)For me art is really important for our lives and for humanities future
and past. Humans are like some softwares of the world
and each one have their own codes and its like open source codes which we can add and delete some parts and in this
point art is taking the control of everything . if humans can create and evolve, their biggest supporter is art because
humans learn their creative ability when they see, hear or feel any art work. If humans cant understand this ability ,
they have to live in a standarts rules and lives and somebody who can imagine will create their world for them. For me art is
platform where people can create without any rules and learning to create is always shape their world. Life is also shaping with
our feelings and our way of thinking and if learn to control ,we can learn to shape our lives.
and each one have their own codes and its like open source codes which we can add and delete some parts and in this
point art is taking the control of everything . if humans can create and evolve, their biggest supporter is art because
humans learn their creative ability when they see, hear or feel any art work. If humans cant understand this ability ,
they have to live in a standarts rules and lives and somebody who can imagine will create their world for them. For me art is
platform where people can create without any rules and learning to create is always shape their world. Life is also shaping with
our feelings and our way of thinking and if learn to control ,we can learn to shape our lives.
q) Describe a world without art.
a)I cannot describe it or i dont want to describe it because if there is
any life in one world, it means there is art here. World is
shaping day by day with new buildings,new fashions, new politic systems and humans are doing them all with their creativity and
imaginations.
shaping day by day with new buildings,new fashions, new politic systems and humans are doing them all with their creativity and
imaginations.
q) Tell us a secret, and obsession.
a)Well i'm obsessed for the details of the scenes. Its may times work
for me but many times its disturbing me. Also i'm obsessed to
calculate the id numbers of the car. It started when i was in high school because i was scared from the math lessons and i'm still
doing this without control. I guess, i'm still scaring from the math.
calculate the id numbers of the car. It started when i was in high school because i was scared from the math lessons and i'm still
doing this without control. I guess, i'm still scaring from the math.
q) Where can people see more of your work on the internet?
a)My website is again in underconstruction but people can visit my blogs
and Steyoyoke Recordings web page. Actually whole pages
in the google named 'azuldecobalt' is mine.
in the google named 'azuldecobalt' is mine.
venerdì 25 gennaio 2013
Interview with Silviu & Irina Székely
q) For the people who don't know your work - how would you describe it?
a)What we do at the moment is described generally by the words
photo-montage or photo-collage. We would briefly describe the results of our
activities as paradoxical and plurivocal juxtapositions and reconstructions of
displaced and vandalised fragments of reality. Everything we produce is made by
hand using scissors and glue.
q) What are the key themes running through your practice?
a)We are less concerned with meaning and psychological effects when it
comes to producing art. Our message, if there is any at all, is composed by a plurality of
micro- and pseudo-messages and stances that are critically and ironically aimed
at certain standardized artistic behaviors such as the total subordination of
the title to the visually perceivable work, or the overwhelming mass-production
of pictorial works totally dependent on public exposure and technological
assistance.
q) Your favourite place on earth?
a)The most desirable place on earth would be a little stone house in the
French countryside surrounded by lavender, blue sky and olive trees.
q) What influences your work?
a)We are influenced by the sudden change of our inner tonality and by
the impersonal amplitude of our immediate surroundings. As a direct
consequence, we witness and we are subjected to an activity of movement, sound,
light, contemplation and hand gestures in order to preserve the healthy
lawlessness of a sign-image that has no legs to stand on.
q) What music are you into right now?
a)Traditional African music and Scandinavian jazz.
q) Describe your thought & design process...
a)We cut, we look around, we cut again; our gestures are extremely
gracious and unrestrained. The excess of thought is strictly forbidden and the
final design does not match the unperceivable replica of its own beginnings. We
put together undesired fragments only to disseminate them father and farther
away into a glued compound strictly limited by the margins of a possible
interpretation.
q) Which emerging artists are you looking forward to seeing more of?
a)As there are so many talented artists nowadays, it would be unjust to
pick only a few.
q) Favourite place on the internet?
a)Internet is just a tool. We can’t find anything interesting in
particular about it.
q) Do you have any upcoming projects/exhibitions we should know about?
a)We have our solo exhibition at Leeds College
q) Tell us something we don't know - but should...
a)We should all know that we know nothing.
q) Where can people see more of
your work on the internet?
a)On our Tumblr (http://deuxbricoleurs.tumblr.com) and Facebook page
(http://www.facebook.com/silviundirinaszekely).
sabato 29 settembre 2012
Interview with Wishcandy
q)Introduce yourself, name,age, location.
a)I'm Sashiko Yuen, although many of you know me by the name of Wishcandy! I live inSouthern California and i'm in my early
twenties. I'm an artist with an equal interest in beauty and the macabre.
q) Can you describe your path to being an artist? When did you really get into it?
a)I've been making art for almost as long as i've been alive. My favorite activities as a kid was to draw all over my mom's bills or sit and tempera paint while watching Saturday morning cartoons. I started getting really serious about developing my skills at the end of high school. That's when i was exposed to many different art careers and decided to go to school for it.
q) Describe your ideals and how they manifest in your work.
a)I don't believe in pure good or pure evil, i like to live in the greys and make my own path in life. So I enjoy juxtaposing darker subjects with a sweet colorful facade. A lot of it has to do with rejecting cultural ideals that we're taught and embracing ourselves. Learning through mistakes and savoring all facets of life.
q) Is music a part of your studio time? What do you listen to?
a)I have a really hard time working if there isn't any music! It really depends on my mood. It can't be too danceable or i'll do more dancing than painting. Lately i've been listening to Deerhoof,Frank
Ocean
q) How would you describe your work to someone?
a)This is always the trickiest part of first telling someone i'm an artist! I'd say I make colorful paintings of macabre femme fatales. Almost like Frida Kahlo in a sugar coma, though not self-portraits.
q) Influences?
a)There's a lot of them! Get ready. Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Henry Fuseli, Andy Warhol, Yoshitomo Nara, Frida Kahlo, Thomas Cole, a lot of 1960s cartoons, 1950s pin up girls, high fashion, and literature from the Romanticism period. I'm sure there is a whole lot more i'm missing.
q) Describe your process for creating new work.
a)It usually happens two different ways. One way would be when i have a lot of ideas coming to me i sketch them out (and they get used eventually). Maybe it's for personal use or for a client. The second way would be for me to throw on some music and figure out why i'm in such an odd mood. I try to get the feeling out through some sort of metaphor or create a character to express it.
q) What advice do you have for artists looking to show their work?
a)Make lots of work and put it on the internet. Talk to other artists, musicians, illustrators, photographers, etc. Make friends with people who you genuinely admire. Don't kiss ass.
When you have a consistent body of work make a professional portfolio hosted on your own separately hosted website. And reach out to people you'd like to work with. Don't be discouraged because the art life is full of rejection. Eventually you'll get a yes.
q) What are you really excited about right now?
a)I just released a pillowcase with the Stay Home Club and i've got some secret projects for wearables! It's amazing that people will wear my art and carry it everywhere. Love the enthusiasm.
q) What do you love most about where you live?
a)It's very sunny and i'm very close to a lot pop surrealist galleries! I moved here a few months ago and I feel thankful that i'm finally able to see art in person that i've loved for years. Finally!
q) Best way to spend a day off?
a)Kick back and relax with a movie! Get something sweet and start thinking up new ideas. I never truly take a whole day off, i just work a lot less.
q) Upcoming shows/ projects?
a)I've got art in two new zines coming out soon! Ahoy, Booty! and Moon Power (it's dedicated to Sailor Moon!)
a)I'm Sashiko Yuen, although many of you know me by the name of Wishcandy! I live in
q) Can you describe your path to being an artist? When did you really get into it?
a)I've been making art for almost as long as i've been alive. My favorite activities as a kid was to draw all over my mom's bills or sit and tempera paint while watching Saturday morning cartoons. I started getting really serious about developing my skills at the end of high school. That's when i was exposed to many different art careers and decided to go to school for it.
q) Describe your ideals and how they manifest in your work.
a)I don't believe in pure good or pure evil, i like to live in the greys and make my own path in life. So I enjoy juxtaposing darker subjects with a sweet colorful facade. A lot of it has to do with rejecting cultural ideals that we're taught and embracing ourselves. Learning through mistakes and savoring all facets of life.
q) Is music a part of your studio time? What do you listen to?
a)I have a really hard time working if there isn't any music! It really depends on my mood. It can't be too danceable or i'll do more dancing than painting. Lately i've been listening to Deerhoof,
q) How would you describe your work to someone?
a)This is always the trickiest part of first telling someone i'm an artist! I'd say I make colorful paintings of macabre femme fatales. Almost like Frida Kahlo in a sugar coma, though not self-portraits.
q) Influences?
a)There's a lot of them! Get ready. Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Henry Fuseli, Andy Warhol, Yoshitomo Nara, Frida Kahlo, Thomas Cole, a lot of 1960s cartoons, 1950s pin up girls, high fashion, and literature from the Romanticism period. I'm sure there is a whole lot more i'm missing.
q) Describe your process for creating new work.
a)It usually happens two different ways. One way would be when i have a lot of ideas coming to me i sketch them out (and they get used eventually). Maybe it's for personal use or for a client. The second way would be for me to throw on some music and figure out why i'm in such an odd mood. I try to get the feeling out through some sort of metaphor or create a character to express it.
q) What advice do you have for artists looking to show their work?
a)Make lots of work and put it on the internet. Talk to other artists, musicians, illustrators, photographers, etc. Make friends with people who you genuinely admire. Don't kiss ass.
When you have a consistent body of work make a professional portfolio hosted on your own separately hosted website. And reach out to people you'd like to work with. Don't be discouraged because the art life is full of rejection. Eventually you'll get a yes.
q) What are you really excited about right now?
a)I just released a pillowcase with the Stay Home Club and i've got some secret projects for wearables! It's amazing that people will wear my art and carry it everywhere. Love the enthusiasm.
q) What do you love most about where you live?
a)It's very sunny and i'm very close to a lot pop surrealist galleries! I moved here a few months ago and I feel thankful that i'm finally able to see art in person that i've loved for years. Finally!
q) Best way to spend a day off?
a)Kick back and relax with a movie! Get something sweet and start thinking up new ideas. I never truly take a whole day off, i just work a lot less.
q) Upcoming shows/ projects?
a)I've got art in two new zines coming out soon! Ahoy, Booty! and Moon Power (it's dedicated to Sailor Moon!)
domenica 23 settembre 2012
Interview with Ian Liddle
q)Introduce yourself, name,age, location.
a)My name is Ian Liddle, I'm male, 42, British, working and living in Berlin , Germany
q) Can you describe your path to being an artist? When did you really
get into it?
a)Pretty early memories of certain pictures/images fascinating me. Age 6
being captivated by a reproduction of Bruegals 'The Triumph of Death' in a book
at home, from age 7 onwards eagerly consuming violent British comics every
week, Action, Battle, 2000ad, etc. I guess at 19, having left school at 16
without being in any sort of higher education, spending months making
collages/drawings with no real intention of ever showing them to anyone, just
doing it for its own sake, made me realise I'll carry on doing this whether i'm
'succesful' or not.
q) Describe your ideals and how they manifest in your work.
a)Hard question... I guess dont compromise
q) Is music a part of your studio time? What do you listen to?
a)No
q) How would you describe your work to someone?
a)Intense, direct, strong, handcrafted
q) Influences?
a)Pre computer renderd comics, sci-fi, horror,,, satire, J.G Ballard,
Alan Moore, Jan Svankmajer,,,, as for artists, John Heartfield, Gene Colon,
Schiele, Klimt, Kevin Oneill, Bosch, Giger, Breugal, Jamie Reid stuff for the
sex pistols
q) Describe your process for creating new work.
a)Different for different things I do, sometimes necessity, for example
my exgirlfriend forbade me from chopping up/drawing on any of her old magazines
so I had to invent a new process of collaging images i wanted to use from them
by shining lamps through the pages building up layers of images to create new
collages and then taking photos of the resulting images - the end result being
the photographs which I then had printed - now some of these prints I've turned
into multicoloured multilayered drawings. Other times I might plan something
before I start it, eg, a model set up and posed in a certain way before I start
drawing/painting.
q) What advice do you have for
artists looking to show their work?
a)Maybe dont expect too much in the way of results from an exhibition
beyond doing your stuff to the best of your ability, keep going, plan the next
one, dont start believing peoples bullshit.
q) What are you really excited about right now?
a)Life Drawing
q) What do you love most about where you live?
a)Germans
q) Best way to spend a day off?
a)Avoiding Germans
q) Upcoming shows/ projects?
a)A showroom/exhibition collaberation with a fashion designer in
December/January, making books, mural work for an apartment, designing/printing
tshirts for some musicians i work with, life drawing, plus in the planning
stage for some paintings
q) Where can people see more of
your work on the internet?
sabato 9 giugno 2012
Interview with Francesco Paolo Catalano
q)Introduce
yourself, name,age, location.
a)I'm
Francesco Paolo Catalano, I'm 34 years old and I live in Palermo
(Sicily
q) Can you
describe your path to being an artist? When did you really get into it?
a)I began to
realize photos after studing the gender and queer theories. The self
portraiture and the photographic portraiture were a natural needing to
comunicate about the cultural construction of identity and personality. I don't
know if I'm an artist. I only know that since 2006 I changed my "path of
life" to describe my psychological observations and my past
obsessions.
q) Describe
your ideals and how they manifest in your work.
a)I strive for
the absence of vanity and cultural prejudice. Gender is a photographic
construction. This is the starting point of my photographic work: to translate
the cultural relativism in photography, through a fashion, surrealism and
cinematographic language.
q) Is music a
part of your studio time? What do you listen to?
a)Music is
like the cinematic and literary inspirations. Sade, Prince, Depeche Mode, David
Sylvian, are among the artists who listen.
q) How would
you describe your work to someone?
a)My
photographs are like the drawings of my infancy. Photography allows me to tell
a part of who I am, what I was and my attitude to perfmorming in the mirror. My
work is my definition of beauty, silence and observation.
q) Influences?
a)Andy Warhol,
Cindy Sherman, Grace Jones, Lisetta Carmi in Italy, Diane Arbus, Betthina
Reims, Quentin Crisp, and my personal queer icon Patty Owens. I'm struck by
people without fear of exposure and repetition over time.
q) Describe
your process for creating new work.
a)I write my
dreams. I note dialogues, frames of movies, memories and missed emotions. My
portraits are often the beginning of my projects: "raw data" on which
to argue for future portraits and stories.
q) What advice
do you have for artists looking to show their work?
a)It's
important, I think, to know about marketing and targeted advertising. To
realize a professional portfolio and to offer itself to art galleries or
magazines in function of specific projects.
q) What are
you really excited about right now?
a)The idea of
inventing stories and characters is really exciting for me, like the
photographic process itself and the back stage of a performance. The ice cream
makes me happy right now
q) What do you
love most about where you live?
a)Palermo Palermo
q) Best way to
spend a day off?
a)Run, walk,
look for places with trees and watch the people on the street. Eating outdoors
and search for the serendipity.
q) Upcoming
shows/ projects?
a)Coming soon
an exibition of mine curated by Laura Francesca Di Trapani in collaboration
with Maurizio Veronese in Palermo at Spazio Cannatella, an Art Gallery in
Palermo. An exibition about my queer icon-character Patty Owens and the
cultural idolatry of a pop icon. In this period I'm publicizing my first job as
art director for the music video Jökking by Donato Di Trapani (http://youtu.be/dBrozYgszgg) based on a story of mine, Costanza. I'm
writing for a next photographic theater project too.
Where can
people see more of your work on the internet?
On flickr I
have a photostream with portraits and another one with self portrait. I like
tumblr too to show the complete works about a photographic shooting. My new
tumblr is, for istance, dedicate to the Patty Owens portraits.
venerdì 13 aprile 2012
Interview with Wagner Olino
q)Introduce yourself, name,age, location.
a)My name is Wagner Olino, I’m 22 years old and I was born and currently live in São Paulo, Brazil.
q) Can you describe your path to being an artist? When did you really get into it?
a)I’ve been interested in art since I was a kid and saw cartoons, comic books and paintings that were done in the streets of my neighborhood during the World Cup time.
But, I’ve only started to consider been a visual artist when I was in high school and was introduced to the works of
q) Describe your ideals and how they manifest in your work.
a)My production deals with the perverse and manic side of mass consumption. That’s why I’m interested in showing the other side of comic books characters and brands as I mix them with sex and violence, or try to be ironic about their morality. I’m interested in exploring the questions brought up by living in a third world country, in a city in which the north american influence is really strong. And, of course, I’m part of a generation that has been experiencing globalization in a really aggressive manner, and I think that growing up in a world that want to keep you a teenager forever is not easy.
q) Is music a part of your studio time? What do you listen to?
a)Yeah! I enjoy listening to all kind of rock and electronic music while I’m doing my stuff.
If I had to pick a genre or two, I’d say that Powerviolence or Grunge is my favorite.
q) How would you describe your work to someone?
a)I think that it’s brute, aggressive and ironic look at the consumption society. And that is reflected in every choice I do during my creative process, in which I prefer to use poor materials and a really simple almost childish graphic style.
q) Influences?
a)I love the work of the Chapman brothers, Paul Mccarthy, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jean Michel Basquiat, David Choe, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Tom Sachs, Kenny Scharf, and many others.
Recently, I’ve been digging a lot of stuff I see from young artists in Flickr, and I think that there’s where the most amazing works are, sometimes I spent hours looking for some new artists.
q) Describe your process for creating new work.
a)I don’t really have a fixed process. It all starts with some kind of research about something I’m interested on. It can be a film, a book, an image, a conversation and a concert, whatever. After that, it takes me some days to start working on something, but it’s really natural and I just let it flow.
But, I’m really aware of what I’m doing and what I want to achieve with a certain image. I believe that a work must be a result of a half conscious and a half unconscious process.
q) What advice do you have for artists looking to show their work?
a)I don’t have any.
q) What are you really excited about right now?
a)I’ve been reading “The Adventures of Pinocchio” by Carlo Collodi and recommend it to everyone. Great book.
q) What do you love most about where you live?
a)The chaos and the ugliness.
q) Best way to spend a day off?
a)Going out with some pretty girls
q) Upcoming shows/ projects?
a)I was invited to have a solo show somewhere between July and August, so right now, I’m working on it.
q) Where can people see more of your work on the internet?
a)On my Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wagolino/
feel free to contact me if you will.
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