Interview

INTERVIEW | Vassilis Vassiliades

INTERVIEW | Vassilis Vassiliades

Vassilis Vassiliades (Nicosia, Cyprus, 1972). He believes that the linear channel in which it moves, traps our perception and aesthetics in the narrow cell of logic, the eternal enemy of creation. In the age of the moving image, Vassilis does not hesitate to state that he remains committed to statics, probably because it is the only hope to create small cracks into the iron curtain of time.

INTERVIEW | Sergey Piskunov

INTERVIEW | Sergey Piskunov

A burst of emotion forces the artist to turn inside out his soul and leave it on the canvas – that's how the Ukrainian artist Sergey Piskunov (1989, Ukraine) sees the work of his life. Hyper-realistic paintings possess their charm and character, children of unique inspiration – they like no other reflect the inner state of their creator, the depth of his personality, exposing him to the outside world.

INTERVIEW | Màrk Lakos

INTERVIEW | Màrk Lakos

MÀRK LAKOS (1993) is a Hungarian artist inspired by his surroundings and circumstances. His paintings capture scenes from his travels across the globe, incorporating the emotions related to these journeys. He often walks hours to explore the cities and enthralling find sites to paint them using unique compositions and perspectives to express his feelings and mood.

INTERVIEW | Cristina Maya Caetano

INTERVIEW | Cristina Maya Caetano

Cristina Maya Caetano is Portuguese, born in Angola, lived in Mozambique for some years, and presently lives in Portugal between Aveiro and Pinhel. She is a writer, a plastic artist, an illustrator, and a poet. In 2010, she used Cristina Maia Caetano as an artist name and examples of her book "To Know the Theater in Mozambique" and chronicles "See and Feel" in newspapers of Abrantes Journal; Daily Journal of Aveiro; Pinhel Falcon; Online Root and FM Radio Aveiro.

INTERVIEW | Nick Ervinck

INTERVIEW | Nick Ervinck

Nick Ervinck remains fascinated by the "negative space" as he discovered it with classical sculptors such as Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth. he explores in his own unique way classical themes such as man, plants especially their genetic manipulation, masks and animals, always starting from an (art) historical background that he cuts with contemporary pop and sci-fi culture.

INTERVIEW | Alec Von Bargen

INTERVIEW | Alec Von Bargen

Born in New York City, Alec Von Bargen is a multidisciplinary artist, a social anthropologist of sorts. He captures aesthetic instances resonating true with their historical, political, and social contexts. Although his research is meticulous, he does not prep, pre-produce, light, or arrange for the photographic shoots leading to the creation of his murals, installations, and video pieces.

INTERVIEW | Djipco

INTERVIEW | Djipco

Jean-Philippe Côté alias Djipco is an artist based in Montréal (Québec, Canada). Algorithms always drive his visual and interactive work. Using open-source software and pieces of “obsolete” hardware, he puts together interactive installations that bring back a sense of tangibility to this otherwise artificial, virtual, and augmented world of ours.

INTERVIEW | Pavel Korbička

INTERVIEW | Pavel Korbička

Pavel Korbička works with space, light, and color, employing various combinations of new and classical technologies. He manages to conjure up a state of suspense between objects and installations. While his sculptures may superficially appear static, they attest to a great deal of importance assigned by the artist to the element of motion.

INTERVIEW | Vanlawrenc

INTERVIEW | Vanlawrenc

Contemporary surrealist digital images. Lawrance is an artist, designer, and photographer based in Indonesia. Self-taught, Evan began to explore and turned his intricate feeling into a surreal vision mixed along with his ambiguous perspective on reality. The delusion of the beautiful things inspires his work till the weird moments, represents by the emotional feeling of himself.

INTERVIEW | YunRay Chung

INTERVIEW | YunRay Chung

Coming from a medical background, YunRay studies fashion design in New York after he finished his Bachelor’s Degree in Physical Therapy in Taiwan. He uses second-hand garments deconstruction, performances, installation, and films to tell the narratives of his vision. He uses his work to speak to social issues, but also human emotions and experiences.

INTERVIEW | Nicolas Vionnet

INTERVIEW | Nicolas Vionnet

Vionnet is fascinated by such irritations: interventions that approach and create a non-hierarchical dialogue with the environment. This discussion opens up a field of tension, which allows the viewer an intensive glimpse of both these phenomena. Vionnet uses the same approach and the same strategy for his installations and objects. Irritation and integration.

INTERVIEW | Yar

INTERVIEW | Yar

Yar creates in a variety of techniques, from analog collage to digital illustration, from motion collages to mixed media graphics. Yar's works are dreamlike and thought-provoking, he experiments with surreal figurative imagery, finding inspiration in southern gothic aesthetics, street culture, turn-of-the-century esoteric narratives, and psychedelia.

INTERVIEW | Pedro Inock

INTERVIEW | Pedro Inock

Pedro works in the fields of video art, video performance, installation, and painting. Throughout his work, the analysis and observation of issues such as place, memory, and human condition make up for a large part of the process. “Contained Turbulence” deploys memory and place (or absence of) and possibility as groundwork as it challenges the bitterness and hostile condition of the postmodern human.

INTERVIEW | Ruocong Ma

INTERVIEW | Ruocong Ma

Ruocong Ma examines the contradiction and correlation of spiritual strength, human body, sexual representation, and feminism in our society, working on oil painting, performance, and sculpture. Her erotic portrait painting often employs domineering poses, vivid colors, creative lighting, and tight costume as symbolism for implying audiences about complex class power.

INTERVIEW | Elizabeth Withstandley

INTERVIEW | Elizabeth Withstandley

Elizabeth Withstandley is from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, she lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Her projects take on the form of artifacts by their simplification and classification, frequently like relics from the natural history museum, and questions individuality while presenting a portrait of a person, a group of people, or a specific culture.

INTERVIEW | Philip McKay

INTERVIEW | Philip McKay

A self-taught award-winning digital artist from Liverpool, UK. Inspired by the surrealist Rene Magritte and graphic designer storm Thorgerson, who was known for designing music album covers for pink Floyd. Philip describes the art he creates as idiotic with scenes of unreality and imaginary places that come from his imagination.

INTERVIEW | Giovanni De Benedetto

INTERVIEW | Giovanni De Benedetto

Giovanni De Benedetto works with photography, video art, and music. His projects have multiple points of view. The observer is an active part of the creative process, and each artwork shakes the spectator from the inside. Starting from 2012, he took part in several solos and collective exhibitions with his main project PREMATURE, exhibiting in cities like Venice, Paris, Miami Beach, Berlin, and Bangkok

INTERVIEW | O. Yemit Tubi (MOYAT)

INTERVIEW | O. Yemit Tubi (MOYAT)

Nigerian born, American trained Artist based in UK with a creative and unique personal style. He paints in acrylic and watercolor, but his favored medium is oil paints. Most of Moyat's recent paintings were influenced by the political and social upheaval of our world today and the works of the Renaissance artists. The uprising in the Arab world is what influenced O Yemi Tubi's first political painting "ARAB REVOLUTION" in 2012

INTERVIEW | Abdo Hassan

INTERVIEW | Abdo Hassan

Abdo Hassan is a Visual artist, based in Cairo, Egypt. Specialized in digital visual arts, digital collages, and mixed media, Abdo hassan’s collages images with artistic vision following no rules, making artworks with wild colors and surreal concepts. This expression has no boundaries, and this is the freedom he finds in the surreal and collage arts.

INTERVIEW | Ale Shack

INTERVIEW | Ale Shack

Every time Ale takes a sheet and ink; she feels the task of portraying the soul, feelings, fears, and desires of a person, a situation, or a memory. Her work is based on details: "Everything is composed of small things that together create great wonders." Therefore, in her work has a purpose, many times, some details will be invisible to the eye, but that contribute significantly to her work.