INTERVIEWS | ARTICLES
A selection of interviews and articles from artists featured on the platform and in the art magazine
RACHELMAURICIO CASTRO
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #19 | APR 2019 |
JOHN REUSS' METICULOUSLY EXECUTED PAINTINGS OFFER A JOURNEY INTO THE SUBCONSCIOUS
MILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #19 | APR 2019 In John Reuss' paintings, contrasts plays a substantial role and are created with complementary colors and a sophisticated blend of soft, organic forms and hard, geometric shapes, fine lines and blurry brush strokes. Read more Læs mere |
TRACY GOLDFINCH ELSON FUSES THE CONTEMPORARY DIGITAL APPROACH WITH CLASSICAL MOTIVES
MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #19 | APR 2019 You can easily call Goldfinch a modern artist. By the use of Instagram, she has a modern take on classical motives, where the style is baroqueish, but the photographic method and communication are contemporary. Read more Læs mere |
KRISTIAN VON HORNSLETH
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #19 | APR 2019 |
FRENCH CHRISTIAN GASTALDI IS A PAINTER WHO HARDLY USE PAINT - A POET DESTROYING WORDS
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #19 | APR 2019 Gastaldi works with materials he finds on the streets, after having suffered the passing of time. Materials whose mundane functions do not elect them as arty material. His work is built upon humanity and the fragility that follows. Read more Læse mere |
ISRAELI ARTIST RONIT BARANGA IS SCULPTING IT OUT WITH AN IMPULSE TO CREATE
MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #19 | APR 2019 Baranga’s work as an artist can be described as an impulsive stream of inspiration. Art can be a comforting experience and when in a chaotic state of mind, working on the clay creates a calming effect. Read more Læs mere |
CATALAN JOFRE OLIVERA IS COMMUNICATING THE AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE THROUGH URBAN ART
MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #19 | APR 2019 Artist Jofre Olivera looks at the public, urban space for creating art. Although his work can be seen as playful and experimental, dealing with public space, there is a seriousness and clear intention behind it as well Read more Læs mere |
AN INTERVIEW WITH GERT SCHEERLINCK, AFTER 4 YEARS OBSERVING HIS USE OF NEGATIVE SPACES
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE | FEB 2019 Emptiness and negative spaces indeed are like the clever use of silence in movies. The absence of non-diegetic composition can add an extra level of “emotion”. Read more Læs mere |
THE WORK OF ZACK ZDRALE IS INFLUENCED BY A SOLID ACADEMIC APPROACH TO PAINTING AND ILLUSTRATION
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #18 | JAN 2019 The works of Zdrale are influenced by solid academic figurative illustration and painting. Among others, the work of Mexican artist Ramón Alexander Hurtado (1989) is of great inspiration to Zdrale. Read more Læs mere |
DANISH/PORTUGUISE ARTIST SALL TORO USES THE BODY AS A TOOL FOR TRANSFORMATION OF SPACES
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #18 | JAN 2019 The works of Sall Lam Toro explore that in betweenness of visceral and social body and all asymmetries this relationship entails, using her body as a tool for transformation of spaces. Read more Læs mere |
ISRAELI ARTIST KOBI MAMAN USES THE BINARY SYSTEM AS A REFERENCE FOR COMPOSITION
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #18 | JAN 2019 A key element in creating a good composition is opposition, as opposites create contrast, and interest. A good composition must carry both of these binary opposites and let them live together - co-exist. Read more Læs mere |
IRIS POLJAN USES THE LINES TO CONSTRUCT THE IMAGE AND THE COLOR TO CATCH ATTENTION
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #18 | JAN 2019 Iris Poljan depicts the aspects of everyday reality of importance to the individual. Addressing the seemingly small aspects of everyone's common life. Read more Læs mere |
GERMAN ARTIST CLAUDIA GRÜNIG USES DISTURBANCES AS KEY PRIORITIES FOR HER COMPOSITIONS.
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #18 | JAN 2019 A good composition transports the image content. Disturbances of equilibrium can also contribute to a good composition and sometimes have a certain priority. Read more Læs mere |
THE WORK OF LIDÓ RICO CONSISTS OF A COMPENDIUM BETWEEN MATERIALS - CONCEPTS IN DIALOGUE.
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #18 | JAN 2019 Lidó Rico generates his drive from the explicit cultural acknowledgement to have a personal expressive language characterized by using his own body as an extensive additive tool to his toolbox of creation. Read more Læs mere |
THE DUTCH PHOTOGRAPHER HENDRIK KERSTENS, AND HIS GOLDEN RATIO.
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #18 | JAN 2019 In the elapse portrayed by the lens of his camera, Kerstens manages to fuse diverse periods of time. Read more Læs mere |
THE HUNGARIAN ARTIST TIMKA SZÖKE UNFOLDS HER VERSATILITY IN ILLUSTRATION.
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE | DEC 2018 The Hungarian artist Timka Szőke unfolds her versatility in illustration. Szöke’s drive, is generated by her fashion for drawing; leaving a significant inheritance to (un)told legends and tales. Read more Læs mere |
THE DANISH ARTIST METTEMAYA, AND HER SPACE WITHIN A SPACE.
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #17 | OCT 2018 To Danish artist MetteMaya, creating a space within a space, to have something soft in the middle of the mess, and to mix all the different materials, is essential. Read more Læs mere |
POLISH DOMINIKA KARC AND HER DECOMPOSITION OF THE (HUMAN) BODY.
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #17 | OCT 2018 To Polish Dominika Karc, straight lines decompose the human body in a transition of geometrics, becoming machine-like. Neo-robotics. Read more Læs mere |
TAQUEN USES THE LINE AS DIFFERENTIAL ELEMENT, IN SEARCH FOR PERFECT ANATOMY.
SUSANNA ALLENDE | ARTICULATE #17 | OCT 2018 In his work, Taquen is interested in the natural, in knowledge and in learning through personal experience and movement, in the understanding of it as being a process of change and growth. Read more (ENG) Læs mere (DK) |
THE DANISH ARTIST, CARSTEN KROGSTRUP AND HIS SILENT MYSTIQUE.
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #17 | OCT 2018 The Danish visual artist Carsten Krogstrup has an inherent desire for non-specific narratives, and depicts how he experiences and interprets life, with the solemn goal to delineate how it feels to be (part of) the human species. Read more (ENG) Læs mere (DK) |
UK BASED ARTIST HAZEL REEVES DEALS WITH THE REPRESENTASION OF WOMEN IN PUBLIC ART.
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #17 I OCT 2018 The focus of Hazel Reeves increasingly falls on redressing the lack of representation of women in public art, after many years spent promoting gender equality internationally. Read more (ENG) Læs mere (DK) |
REDMER HOEKSTRA: I'VE ALWAYS LOVED ALIANTION AND FANTAZISING; DAYDREAMING!
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #16 | JULY 2018 I find my inspiration riding the train or on the road, where my mind can float through the landscape and new connections between things appear. A philosophical view of the world and myself. Who am I? What is my reality and how do I get to decide how it looks and works? Read more |
BOAMISTURA A REVIEW OF THE SPANISH ACTIVIST STREET-ART GURO'S, PERFORMING FAR FROM MADRID.
SUSANNA ALLENDE | ARTICULATE #16 | JULY 2018 The basis of all Boamistura’s work is the point of a constructive dialogue: sharing ideas, listening to each other and, even at the earliest stage of a proposal, be sure that all the members feel that they are on the right path Read more |
IN PARENTELA'S LIVING ROOM A MEETING BETWEEN GALLIANO AND HORN IS A RANDOM HAPPENING
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #16 | JULY 2018 The transition from collage to photography is in his work necessary, inevitable, continuous and discontinuous, fluid and full of insurmountable and inevitable obstacles. Read more |
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SONNY SCHNEIDER WORKS WITH HUMOR AND INVITES FOR HIS AUDIENCE TO JOIN HIS CIRKUS.
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #15 | APRIL 2018 The works of Sonny Schneider, often consists in the constellation of creatures: half human, half animal, encouraging his audience to embrace the odd and unfamiliar, with humor. Read more |
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE ARGENTINIAN ARTIST MARIELA AJRAS
SUSANNA ALLENDE | ARTICULATE #15 | APRIL 2018 An interview with the Argentinian large-scale graffiti artist Mariela Ajras, who's murals are closely related to activism and the fight for human rights. Read more |
DANIELLE VAN ZADELHOFF IS AN ARTIST ATTRACTED BY PEOPLE; CAPTURING HUMAN BEHAVIOR
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #15 | APRIL 2018 The works of Zadelhoff propose a bridge between past, now and future/further. "Clare obscure (or chiaroscuro) is like the past. Our decisions, in the now, are based on experiences of the past and have influence on our future." Read more |
IN DIALOGUE WITH THE URBAN WONDERWOMAN LULA GOCE
SUSANNA ALLENDE | ARTICULATE #14 | JAN 2018 For me, art is a vital necessity, like breathing or eating, it is part of my existence and I consider it necessary to live. As part of this existence, there is the coexistence with the urban environment and the individuals that inhabit it. I live because I coexist and I do street art because it is part of this vital interaction. Read more |
*VINNIE* AND HIS OBSERVATION UPON LIGHT. BLUE IS PERHAPS A THOUGHT.
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #7 | APRIL 2016 Color is life, information, sign but above all thanks to science we all know that color is light: science is light on the truth and in some of your religions is professed that light, truth and divinity are linked: don’t you see how we constantly turn around the same concept? Read more |
ÉMILIE MOUTSIS PROPOSES A SUBVERT OF SYMBOLS TO MOVE THE ESTABLISHED ORDER.
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #11 | APRIL 2017 I'm proposing a subvert of certain symbols to move the established order. As for example by reversing the ratio of masculine superiority over the feminine of our patriarchal inheritance by replacing the cross of a rosary by a vulva... Read more |
NICOLAS RIENTE'S WORK IS A DENUNCIATION TOOL; A SPELL AGAINST DEATH AND FORGETFULNESS
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #1 | OCTOBER 2014 PHOTOGRAPHY Dedicated to his nomadic lifestyle, Nicolas seeks to establish a dialogue with the viewer of his work, documenting the truths of this world though the lens of his camera. “A storyteller through light”, as he describes it. Read more |
GERT SCHEERLINCK COMBINES AND RELOCATES EXTENSIVELY USED OBJECTS.
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #3 | APRIL 2015 An interview aiming to dive the depths of artist Gert Scheerlinck and his passion for extensively used objects. By changing their context and there by reviving them, Gert Scheerlinck exposes other peoples trash, in the consideration that the objects are still useful (as other people’s treasure)... Read more |
RAHMAN HAK-HAGIR | A WARRIOR WITH ART AS HIS WEAPON.
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #5 | OCTOBER 2015 It always was the privilege of comedians to illuminate the king and his court by clues and messages camouflaged behind symbols. My conceptual performative work contributes to all these anonymous jesters who served social evolution and human cohesion across history... Read more |