INTERVIEWS | ARTICLES
A selection of interviews and articles from artists and collaborations featured on the platform, in the gallery and in the art magazine
Pandemic Art 1.0 is a retrospective upon the first year of the pandemic situation, showcasing the projects of nearly 40 professional artistsARTICULATE | ARTICULATE PUBLICATION | NOV 2021
The artists of Pandemic Art 1.0, reflect upon the global initiatives and their consequences. The publication both manifests itself in a book release as well as a virtual exhibition, launching in November 2021. |
The work of Lisa Lach-Nielsen circulates around the female figure, and deal with themes such as identity, the search of it and the elements that shape it.MILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #28 | JUL 2021
Lach-Nielsen’s drive is generated from her desire to create and release thoughts she has in her head. The works are thus deeply connected to the artists own mind and carry deep psychological meanings. Read more |
The main concerns of the Mexican artist Horacio Quiroz are the human condition, change, and duality in our reality expressed through the body.MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #28 | JUL 2021
The freak shows and human circuses of the 18th century displayed the rarities and what was shocking and outside the accepted norms. The art of Quiroz is also a display of the deformed, the curiosities of the human body and mind. Read more Læs mere |
The artistic research of Danny Bittencourt, investigates the sharing of the sensitive as a practice, appropriating photography as a tool for personal expressionCARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE #28 | JUL 2021
The work of Bittencourt is initiated from a completely emotional urge. An impulse she cannot control. Once she identifies the feeling, the creative process becomes controlling and urgent. Read more |
The work of Spanish artist García de Marina revolves around intuition and ideas, surrealism, and the world of the subconscious and dreamsCARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE #28 | JUL 2021
The work of Marina is deeply irreverent with reality, seeking to transform and stamp objects with new identities, challenging the obvious, and paying attention to the greatness of everyday life. Read more |
The common thread of the work of Rafel Moreno, is the artistic expression of feelings as universal as love, sadness and the desire for freedom.CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE #28 | JUL 2021
The work of Moreno is very varied, for which it seems impossible to define him as an artist. He chooses his technique according to what he wants to express. Preferably, Moreno uses waste, re- and upcycle material. Read more |
Suárez possesses an unusual mastery of capturing the rhythm, the gesture, the precise moment to freeze an image in time, while studying its dynamic potential.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #27 | APR 2021
Suárez suggests that it’s dangerous to dwell in monotony and conformism, either by the exhaustion of ideas or, even if it seems contradictory, by the rewards of success. Always ask new questions that lead you to think anew. Read more |
Klementsson confuses her audience conceptually by having men pose like women and vise versa. In doing so she argues that gender is an illusionCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #27 | APR 2021
The viewer of Klementsson's work, sees something is odd while men pose like women in a transparent iridescent skin, daring the viewer to be drawn to them despite their colourful flaws. Read more |
Judith de Leeuw (JDL) creates murals as a voice for the voiceless and uses art as a tool to draft attention for social issues, combining emotional visualizationCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #27 | APR 2021
The Dutch artist JDL is turning the dark edges of humanity and society into beauty and mutual understanding through her murals. JDL is wondering how she can contribute to a system in which she feels alienated. Read more |
The Iranian artist Mostafa Nodeh's minimalist photographs invite us to slow down and meditate on what is truly important in lifeMILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #27 | APR 2021
Nodeh is known for his captivating minimalist landscape photographs in black and white, which, inspired by conceptual photography, are strongly rooted in themes, ideas and symbolism. Read more |
The illustrations of Oliver Jones are rendered using pastel which is an important component of the works, as in describing the surface of fleshCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #27 | APR 2021
The drawings of the British artist Oliver Jones, aim to dispel a contrived imagery of flesh that is flaunted to us through media, social media and industry, and endeavors to re-advertise a more truthful version of it. Read more |
The Italian artist Veronica Barbato uses the language and dimensions of street art, keeping faith with the promises of love between sistersCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | APR 2021
The three elements that characterised the 1980's was reflux, armed struggle and heroin. This is a project telling the story of Barbato's sister, based on a letter received 5 years after her death. Read more |
To Paredes, every element counts. The result is a logbook in images, a private visual diary that reveals the naturalness of what seems secret from the outside.CARMEN LINE HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | FEB 2021
Due to the pandemic, Paredes delves, through the images of isolation, each one composed of two photographs - constituting a single unit - captured in their entirety with an old Helios manual lens adapted to her digital camera. Read more |
In the Deep Forest Art Land, situated in Jutland Denmark, you will learn something new about yourself in the meeting with art and nature. |
Illustrator Steven Russell Black fuses opponents, leaving his audience attracted to both fungus and clouds, chocolates and maggots.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #26 | JAN 2021
Black is an artist with an obsessive compulsion to champion the odd, fringe, or otherwise unappreciated, who generates his artistic drive, by finding beauty in unexpected places. Read more Læs mere |
The art of Batista is inspired by Baroque paintings, talking aesthetics, as in earthy tones and of course the drama.CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #26 | JAN 2021
When she’s working, Batista's lets her feelings emerge, portraying herself in certain poses, playing with the angles. When she scripts her art, Batista feels trapped, and as she can’t fully express herself. Read more Læs mere |
Kyriacou’s sketch work are innocently sinister, with an aura of vintage look and a here-and-there political undertone.MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #26 | JAN 2021
Similar to Pan’s Labyrinth, the style of Greek Kyriacou is a dark fantasy, although of course more friendly. However, the slightly cubistic, modern layers remind us of something newer. Perhaps something graphic. Read more Læs mere |
As a child Volkano never wanted to grow up. Art offered him an exit that became his safehaven - his sandpitCARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #26 | JAN 2021
Volkano is portraying the removal of our free mind and our impulsive joy, as we mature and adjust. To him, a painting should awake the deepest and darkest emotions, convulse the heart and get stuck there. Read more Læs mere |
By combining hyperrealism, surrealistic elements and popular cultural symbols, the French duo Murmure street creates street art that appeals to the general publicJULIE JOHANNE SVENDSEN | ARTICULATE #26 | JAN 2021
Murmure street has professional and craft knowledge of graphic and urban art techniques at their disposal, which they unite in playful and poetic works that interact with the specific environment in which they are created. Read more Læs mere |
The theme in the work of Russian illustrator Anton Gudim is random, yet he's mainly attracted by things that are deprived of attention and to what seem ordinary. |
The photographic work of Turkish artist Elif Yeşil Aktamiş is like an electric temple, resembling Istanbul and the clash of cultures constituting the capital. |
Each of the works of the dedicated Ukrainian artist Ruslan Onishchenko are elaborated from well-worn and carefully thought through ideas. |
Anger, boredom, joy and sadness are some of the unfamiliar beauties and portraited truths in American artist Dorielle Caimi's fascinating artwork. |
José Navarro twists and combines everyday objects in precise photographic realism, incorporating new elements and meanings, creating visual poetry. |
SPACE52'S ART IN QUARANTINE: THEORIZING AN ART OF THE PRESENT MOMENT. ARTISTS LOOK AT THEIR OWN WORK AS A SOURCE OF IMAGINATIVE RE-INVENTION.
ARIANA EVELYN KALLIGA | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | JUNE 2020 Quarantine is an accidental residency, writes Othonas Charalambous. Artist archives in quarantine are functionally ambiguous spaces, databases of visual images or piles of physical ephemera, out of which new work is generated. Read more |
CONTRASTS OF LIGHT AND DARK, ALONG GOOD AND EVIL, PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE PAINTINGS OF THE DANISH ARTIST HANS HENRIK FISCHER.
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #24 | JULY 2020 The main subject Fischer are children and a general theme of innocence. Innocence being lost or corrupted by growing up. Fischer's interested in questions about if we are born pure and get corrupted by outside influences, or if evil is something you're born with. Read more Læs mere |
KRISTOFFER ØRUM CREATES NARRATIVES THAT RUN COUNTER TO SOCIETY'S DOMINANT NARRATIVES OF FEAR AND DESPONDENCY.
MARIE BERTHELSEN | ARTICULATE #24 | JULY 2020 According to Ørum, the societies industrially produced objects have been made with much effort, but we do not know the origins by which they get obscured. Ørum believes that paying attention to imperfection and possible misuse helps to demolish this. Read more Læs mere |
TO IVÁN RODRÍGUEZ, CREATION BECOMES HIS REFUGE FROM AN ILL SOCIETY, PROMOTING ALIENATION, BANALITY, FRIVOLTY AND THE DEEP UNCONSCIOUS.
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #24 | JULY 2020 To Rodríguez, compositions has two sides: a series of established rules that one ought to know, to be able to break them, and the intuitive part, distributing the elements within a piece in a harmonious and balanced way. Read more Læs mere |
IN THE WORK OF LENE KILDE FRAGMENTS ARE PARTS, BROKEN OFF OR DETACHED. ODD INCOMPLETE PIECES, TRACES OF SOMETHING ONCE WHOLE.
MILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #24 | JULY 2020 Norwegian artist Lene Kilde is an artist who works in fragments. She is a sculptor whose figurative work centers around the human and the body. Her art consists of both largescale public sculptures and life-sized pieces. Read more Læs mere |
THE WORK OF JACOBA NIEPOORT IS A VISUAL DIARY OF THE INTERACTIONS AND EXPERIENCES SHE HAS WITH OTHERS, NATURE AND HERSELF.
MARIE BERTHELSEN | ARTICULATE #24 | JULY 2020 In a quite classy, and not too vivid or bold manner the work of Niepoort creates a space you want to immerse yourself into. It becomes a landscape in a landscape, an unquestionable part of urban nature. Read more Læs mere |
OLE TERSLØSE COMBINES CURIOSITY WITH HOMESAFE IMAGES IN HIS UPCOMING SOLOSHOW CATCH AT GALLERY HOEJBJERG & SIMMELSGAARD IN JUNE.
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | JUNE 2020 Tersløse reactivates old myths in his haunting computer-generated imagery and challenge us to ponder our own relationship to nature. We've met him in an interview upon his upcoming exhibition. Read more Læs mere |
IN THE ART OF GREEK ARTIST KATERINA KOKKINAKI, HERMAPHRODITE FIGURES DIRECT THEIR OWN LIVES. A BITING PSYCHOLOGICAL GAME THROUGH GENDERS.
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | MAY 2020 The personal unconscious is the creative battlefield for the Greek visual artist Katerina Kokkinaki (b. 1977). Here she tends to pick up pictures, ideas, feelings, sensations, secret thoughts, unsolved and dark relations. Read more Læs mere |
IN HIS PROJECT IL CANTICO DELLE CREATURE EURO ROTELLI DEPICTS ANIMAL SLAUGTHERHOUSE BODIES, INSPIRED BY THE BYZANTINE FRESCOS.
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | MAY 2020 Euro Rotelli has been inspired by the Byzantine frescoes showing Christians being cruelly martyred. These images remind him of today’s martyrdoms of animals in the slaughterhouses, becoming the meat on our tables. Read more Læs mere |
PROUDLY PRESENTING THE NORWEGIAN ARTIST TERESE STENHJEM AND HER EXHIBITION: VESSEL, FROM MAY 14TH - AUGUST 1ST 2020.
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE GALLERY | MAJ 2020 Stenhjem uses imitation as a way of understanding nature. She tries to imitate, isolate and simplify nature. She’s interested in cycles, capturing meditative moments or memories from nature. Read more Læs mere |
THE DELICIOUS WORK OF BARBARA VANDENDRIESSCHE IS AN IMMERSION INTO THE WORLD OFF BEAUTY, EMOTION AND TRAGEDY.
MILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #23 | APR 2020 Vandendriessche finds her inspiration in Greek tragedy, art history and romantic poetry. To her theatricality is a pre-aesthetic impulse, an expansion of reality, that awakes an emotion, by appealing to ritual instincts. Read more Læs mere |
WHEN SIMON HJORTEK'S PERFORMING, CREATIVITY ARISES IN WHAT WE ASSOCIATE WITH SOMETHING UNCREATIVE AND BLAND.
MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #23 | APR 2020 Hjortek keeps things hidden in his artworks, such as hiding the eyes or ears, or hiding an important object in the frame. You are not bored, you have puzzles to solve, even if it is in an institution. Read more Læs mere |
THE WORK OF POLISH ARTIST NESPOON IS SOMEWHERE IN THE CROSSFIELD BETWEEN STREET ART, POTTERY, PAINTING AND SCULPTURE.
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #23 | APR 2020 NeSpoon works with laces, since they contain a universal aesthetic code, which is deeply embedded in every culture. In every lace there's symmetry, some kind of order and harmony, which is what we instinctively seek for. Read more Læs mere |
IN THE WORK OF CHINESE ARTIST YING WEI, MATHEMATICAL ALGORITHMS AND EASTERN PHILO-SOPHY SEEM TO HAVE A SHARED GOAL.
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #23 | APR 2020 Due to the experimental approach, Ying Wei tries to create in a cynical way similar to Dada — rejecting all traditional sculpture techniques and modes, and trying to experiment with various fractal geometric formulas by computer. Read more Læs mere |
THE WORK OF PIPPA YOUNG IS BUILT UPON THE RENAISSANCE, INCORPORATING OTHER MEDIA, LINES AND TEXTURE, SIMULATING ABSTRACTION.
MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #23 | APR 2020 Young’s art is a collaboration of simple, pale and strong colors. Her artistic expression is consistent across her works - typically being still pictures of pale nymphs with a christian, medieval atmosphere in a modern version. Read more Læs mere |
AN INTERVIEW WITH VANESA MUÑOZ. AFTER 5 YEARS OBSERVING HER 3 DIMENSIONAL POETRY AND HOW SHE USES THE SCULPTURE AS A MODEL OF THOUGHT
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE PROMOTE | FEB 2020 The path of creation of Vanesa Muñoz, has always been the three dimensions. All her aesthetic ideas are configured with volume, as all her ideas are formed with defined space and time. Read more Leer más |
THE DUO PICHIAVO, SINCE 2007 ACTING A SINGLE FIGURE, HAS DEVELOPED A UNIQUE CONCEPTUAL STYLE POSITIONING THEM ON THE CONTEMPORARY ARTSCENE
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #22 | JAN 2020 The artistic duo PichiAvo is recognized worldwide for their ability to create relationships between art, sculptures, space and social contexts with a transgressive and modernist artistic language. Read more Læs mere |
THE ARMENIAN ARTIST VAR SAHAKYAN PREFERS TO HAVE NO ARTISTIC STYLE, NOR TO HAVE ANY ATTACHMENT TO MEDIAS OR MATERIALS
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #22 | JAN 2020 Most of his work emerges on their own, as Var Sahakyan, spontaneously experiments with the tools at hand. When he seldom is in urge of choosing a subject in advance, it is a response to a current situation, like climate change. Read more Læs mere |
THE SURREAL WORLD OF ITALIAN ARTIST ALESSANDRO SICIOLDR, SEEMS TO BELONG BOTH IN THE MIDDLEAGES AS IN THE RENAISSANCE.
MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #22 | JAN 2020 The portraits of women, or nongendered people, are de-picted with pale skin and dark hair, have a gothic feel to it, expecting the appearance of Mona Lisa with vibrant reds. Read more Læs mere |
THE CONCEPT OF AN ILLUSTRATION, COMES TO STEEVEN SALVAT FROM THINGS HE'S LEARNED, SEEN OR EXPERIENCED.
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #22 | JAN 2020 To Salvat it is key to bring life to a subject with a contrast or unexpected association. By this, he means when two subjects interact, in an unimaginable way. Read more Læs mere |
BELGIUM-BASED ARTISTS KATARZYNA & MARCIN OWCZAREKS' SURREALIST WORKS OFFER ALTERNATIVE WAYS OF LOOKING AT REALITY.
MILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #22 | JAN 2020 With their animal-human-hybrid, Katarzyna and Marcin ask us to rethink what being human means and reconsider the relation between humans and other species. Read more Læs mere |
RIKKE JACOBSEN EXPERIENCES THE WORLD AS A RICH-IN-DETAIL PHENOMENON, FOR WHICH SHE NATURALLY WORKS WITH VISUAL NARRATIVES ON PAPER.
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #21 | OCT 2019 The combination between the detailed and the abstract in her work, facilitates the possibility for Jacobsen to work with traditional techniques in a modern manner. Read more Læse mere |
THE DRIVE OF ITALIAN ARICE IS DIRECTLY DERIVED FROM THE PASSION OF STARTING A CONCEPT AND ENDING UP WITH AN UNEXPECTED CONSTRUCTION.
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #21 | OCT 2019 To Arice, the key element in creating a good composition has many assets. When he's capable of answering those questions, he is able to start his composition. Read more Læs mere |
FAIRY TALES MIX WITH RENAISSANCE, WHEN RUSSIAN JULIANA KOLESOVA DIVES INTO HER TWOFOLD PORTRAITS OF MYSTICISM.
MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #21 | OCT 2019 Kolesova’s art is twofold: The artwork can be divided into mystical fairy tale world and the other into a Renaissance style portrait painting. Read more Læs mere |
THE WORK OF ARTIST JORGE RODRIGUEZ GERADA HIGHLIGHTS THE SMALL AND TAKEN-FOR-GRANTED ON A MONUMENTAL SCALE.
MILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #21 | OCT 2019 Gerada is interested in narratives and people, and he does indeed work with portraits. Based on photographs of real people, sometimes of several, they all represent a story. Read more Læs mere |
THE ART OF MARIO SÁNCHEZ NEVADO IS EXPLOSIVE. WITH STRINGS AND VEINS OF RED AND BLUE, IT IS UNSETTLING AND DRAMATIC.
MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #21 | OCT 2019 The creatures in the art of Marrio Sánchez Nevado, are mythical and imagined. Blood and bodies are depicted more or less clearly, typically threatened or in distress. Read more Læs mere |
ADAM & ADAM (NIKLEWICZ) ARE IN FACT QUITE DIFFERENT: A SCULPTOR AND AN ILLUSTRATOR. THIS IS THE NARRATIVE OF THE TWO COMBINED.
JULIE JOHANNE SVENDSEN | ARTICULATE #21 | OCT 2019 The art of Adam and Adam contribute with something – maybe it’s because magical coincidences yet happen to occur in our rational world. Read more Læs mere |
THE ART OF ORIOL JOLONCH CAN BE QUIETLY PROVOKING. PRIMARILY USING B/W PHOTOGRAPHS, HE INCORPORATES PALE SHADES TO ILLUSTRATE DEATH
MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #21 | OCT 2019 There is a sadness or perhaps thoughtfulness in the pictures of Oriol Jolonch. The artwork is for the curious, the slightly odd, and whoever likes the combination of natural elements with surrealism. Read more Læs mere |
RACHEL WOLFE’S MEDITATIVE WORKS POSIT POETIC RELATIONS BETWEEN TERRAIN, TECHNOLOGY, WATER, SOUND AND MOVEMENT
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #20 | JUL 2019 Rachel Wolfe is an American artist, dedicated to visual and installation art. Her training in dance and music form her approach to processing site specific history and to embed visual and material cues in her final public works. Read more Læs mere |
GLASS ARTIST KAREN NYHOLM TRANSMITS PARTS OF HER PERSONALITY TO HER WORK, ENABLING HER ENGAGEMENTS WITH ALTER-EGOS AND DUPLETS
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #20 | JUL 2019 As a creator Nyholm always transfers a part of her personality to the pieces she’s working with, which has enabled her latest engagements with subjects such as alter-egos and Doppelgänger (lookalikes). Read more Læs mere |
TAIWANESE LO CHAN PENG EXPLORES WHAT LIES UNDER THE SURFACE. A SEARCH FOR SOMETHING IMPOSSIBLE TO TRANSLATE INTO WORDS
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #20 | JUL 2019 Lo Chan Peng explores the inner feelings sensed by human kind; what lies under the surface of our faces, a search for something spiritual, something holy and mysterious, something impossible to translate into words. Read more Læs mere |
ALESSIO CHIERICO’S WORKS REFLECT HIS INTERDISCIPLINARY BACKGROUND IN CONTEMPORARY ART, DESIGN THEORY AND MEDIA STUDIES
MILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #20 | JUL 2019 Alessio Chierico’s artistic work is highly conceptual, process based and interactive. Often presented through mixed media installations, Chierico’s works reflect his interdisciplinary background in art and media studies. Read more Læs mere |
IN ”PROJECT B” NICOLETTE BÉNARD INVESTIGATES BARBIE’S POSITION AS AN ICON OF BEAUTY AND ASKS: IS IT IDEAL BEAUTY OR FALSE IDEALISM?
JULIE JOHANNE SVENDSEN | ARTICULATE #20 | JUL 2019 The Dutch artist Nicolette Bénard is mainly known for her jewelry designs. Over the past year, she has turned her creative impulses towards a quite different field. Instead of pearls, coral or even lava, Read more Læs mere |
BELGIAN MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST STÉPHANE VEREECKEN SETS OUT TO UNCOVER A SECRET AND INVISIBLE WORLD
MILIA WALLENIUS | ARTICULATE #20 | JUL 2019 Belgian artist Stéphane Vereecken finds his inspiration in the mysterious and the unknown. With a multidisciplinary vision, formed by his studies in several artistic subjects, he sets out to uncover a secret and invisible world. Read more Læs mere |
THROUGH 3D ART, POLISH ADAM MARTINAKIS HAS ACCESS TO A FLOOD OF ARTISTIC TOOLS, ENTAILING A COMBINATION OF MULTIPLE ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES
MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #20 | JUL 2019 First glance at Adam Martinakis’ art is like delving into a fantasy world. His works seems inspired by an alternative reality and somewhat sci-fi. This goes hand in hand with his perception and process of developing ideas. Read more Læs mere |
ABSURDITY IS THE FIRST IMPRESSION OF BRAZILIAN MARCOS GUINOZA’S ART, WHOSE HARMONIC COMPOSITION ALSO ENABLES A CERTAIN CALMNESS
MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #20 | JUL 2019 Absurdity is the first impression of Brazilian Marcos Guinoza’s art. At the same time, a calmness can be found in the lowkey and harmonic composition which includes farstretched landscapes, mellow colors and openness. Read more Læs mere |
BRAZILIAN DUO RACHELMAURICIO CASTRO USE BOTH WEB DESIGN AND GRAPHICS IN THEIR CREATIONS
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #19 | APR 2019 In the work of rachelmauricio castro the most common functions are broken: clear and orderly directions of reading and hierarchy of information, becoming pure aesthetic and its own content. Read more Læs mere |
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 |
ARTIVIST KRISTIAN VON HORNSLETH ENGAGE IN DIALOGUE WITH YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS
CARMEN HUST | ARTICULATE #19 | APR 2019 The funny thing about provocation is that it needs a receptible recipient for provocation to function at all. And that’s exactly what is continuously succeeding for von Hornsleth, when putting the homeless people on display. Read more Læs mere |
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 Læs 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 OLIVERAS IS COMMUNICATING THE AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE THROUGH URBAN ART
MARIE BERTELSEN | ARTICULATE #19 | APR 2019 Artist Jofre Oliveras 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 PROMOTE | 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 Læs mere |
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 Læs mere |
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 Læs mere |
CÉSAR ESCUDERO ANDALUZ EXPLORES READYMADES AND AUTHENCITIES, WHILE POLUTING DIGITAL SPACE
CÉSAR ESCUDERO ANDALUZ | ARTICULATE #17 | OCT 2018 The work of César Escudero Andaluz spans image-making, sculpture, videogame, installation, networked culture, IoT, robotics, interface appropriations and media archaeology. Read more Læs mere |
IN HIS SERIES ZEITGEIST, PETER DAVIS EXPLORES THE CHANGING VERSIONS OF HUMAN PERSONA
PETER DAVIS | ARTICULATE #17 | OCT 2018 Painter Peter Davis aims to capture the spirit of the age. In his series of figurative paintings, Davis explores the subject of humanity and its relationship with personal technology. Read more Læs mere |
THE WORK OF BELGIAN ARTIST VALERIE DECLEER, IS AN ACT OF CREATING INTIMATE CONNECTIONS
VALERIE DECLEER | ARTICULATE #16 | JULI 2018 The work of Belgian artist Valerie Decleer is an act of creating intimate connections – an effort to reflect the exhaustive wandering through the labyrinth of one’s mind. Read more |
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? 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 |
THE WORK OF RUSSIAN IGOR & MARINA ATTEMPTS TO GIVE NEW MEANING TO FAMILIAR IMAGES.IGOR & MARINA | ARTICULATE #16 | JULI 2018
The work of Igor & Marina is characterized by a fusion of seemingly incongruous elements: past and present, figurative and abstract, traditional and avant-garde. Read more |
WHEN WITH PLATKOVSKY, RAYS OF LIGHT BOUNCING OFF THE SURFACES AND INTERSECT TO FORM AN ELUSIVE STRUCTURE IN SPACE.ADRIAN PLATKOVSKY | 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 Read more |
LIBERTY IS THE LANCE OF SOFTTWIX, WHO CLAIMS NO STRANGENESS, JUST THE POSSIBILITY OF BEING HERSELF IN HER WORK.SOFTTWIX | ARTICULATE #15 | APRIL 2018
Softtwix is working as a photographer in Paris. She's devoting her energy to the completion of a personal photographic approach. Read the full article |
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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 LARGE-SCALE GRAFFITI 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 |
HELEN SCHULKIN
HELEN SCHULKIN | 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 Read more |
STINKFISH
SUSANNA ALLENDE | 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 Read more |
TO EGYPTIAN ARTIST ABDO HASSAN, DOING ART IS GREAT BUT DOING IT FOR A CAUSE IS GREATER
ABDO HASSAN | ARTICULATE #15 | APRIL 2018 Doing art is great but doing it for a cause is greater. I believe that every artist is a prophet, I have a message to deliver, I have causes to fight for, so I started making collages for the purpose of causes. 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. Read more |
Corentin Binard aka Spear, born in 1988 and based in Brussels, is a Belgian graffiti artist / painter specialized in portraits.SUSANNA ALLENDE | ARTICULATE #14 | JAN 2018
Engaged and convinced that we all can do something to change the world, Spear launched the charity project “Painted For Them” (2012). The aim of this project is to help people in need and break the prejudices. Read more |
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*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 through 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 |