Collectors art book Vol. 2

INTERVIEW | Pavlina Vagioni

INTERVIEW | Pavlina Vagioni

Pavlina Vagioni’s art is all about alchemy, re-enchanting the contemporary world through the timelessness of the myths and legends of her Hellenic heritage. She renders the symbols and archetypes behind them to reveal their relevance and aliveness and bridge the chasm between Cartesian rationalism and the spirituality of human beings, nature, and the cosmos.

INTERVIEW | Shuqi You

INTERVIEW | Shuqi You

Shuqi You is a New York-based fashion designer. You's design and art approach is based on a lengthy period of individual experimentation with materials and three-dimensional objects, with an emphasis on media characteristics, technique development, and physical existence. In her current participatory project, Wiegenlied D498, she examined the contradictions between personal memories and immediate circumstances.

INTERVIEW | Hao Wen (Claudia) Chung

INTERVIEW | Hao Wen (Claudia) Chung

Hao Wen Chung, also known as Claudia, is a graphic designer and artist who was born in Taiwan and currently splits her time between residing in Taipei, Taiwan, and Brooklyn, New York. Although she is an accomplished designer with an eye for precision, her photography and ceramic artworks reveal another side of her that is emotive, free-spirited, and exquisite. The naturalness of things can be seen in Claudia's artwork.

INTERVIEW | Kelly Zhong

INTERVIEW | Kelly Zhong

Kelly Zhong was born in Vancouver, BC, and currently works in New York, NY. She views her artwork as informal self-portraits – drawings that reflect parts of herself without ever showing actual facial features. Instead, body language is used to convey mental states and actions. From this ambiguity, she invites viewers to reflect on similar experiences and cast their own perspectives on situations.

INTERVIEW | Rebecca Yunjeong Lee

INTERVIEW | Rebecca Yunjeong Lee

Rebecca Yunjeong Lee is Korean born artist, originally from Seoul, South Korea. Yunjeong's work is a reflection of the past. Inspired by trauma suffered as a young person, her work is a self-portrait viewed through the lens of traumatic memory and is part of the process of moving forward with her life. Louise Borgeois, Tracey Emin and Francis Bacon all influenced the works, which were Yunjeong's first foray into using digital applications to create art.

INTERVIEW | Nora Papp

INTERVIEW | Nora Papp

Nora Papp is a Swiss artist born and based in Zürich, Switzerland. Nora Papp combines her interest in human perception and the digital photographic picture with her investigation of the image as an object. She develops her works with the help of common image processing programmes on the computer, where she collects "aesthetic data" through the dissection of the digital image.

INTERVIEW | Jiaming Zhang

INTERVIEW | Jiaming Zhang

Jiaming Zhang is a Chinese artist, currently based in America. He is an avid observer and constantly draws inspiration from the space and dynamics around him.In his latest series, Space #, Zhang uses simple lines to express his environmental awareness on canvas. Sensual and innately, exposed to the space, each painting carries its own emotional tone and narrative - just like every inch of air, with a unique smell, movement, and mood.

INTERVIEW | Ali Fawad

INTERVIEW | Ali Fawad

Ali Fawad is a self-taught digital sculptor/teacher, based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Through working with both camera and computer, he creates images that seek to challenge and problematise traditional conceptions of photography, sculpturing and painting. Techniques and understandings from these fields – such as carving, layering of colour or the interplay of light - are used to produce images that capture the spirit of the locality.

INTERVIEW | Anita Tiwary

INTERVIEW | Anita Tiwary

Anita Tiwary is an Indian visual artist, currently based in New Delhi. Anita Tiwary's paintings are the thread of her inner journey of known, unknown, and beyond for an eternity which reflects in her Soulscapes, Dream Narratives, and Abstract representational art. Anita Tiwary's work is about the interconnection of all kinds of beings with nature and the universe.

INTERVIEW | Rūta Matulevičiūtė

INTERVIEW | Rūta Matulevičiūtė

Rūta Matulevičiūtė is a painter and interdisciplinary artist. She is based in Vilnius, where, with five colleagues, she co-founded the artist-run space and studios "Tapytoju studijos". Her method is consciousness-based creativity with a focus on personal development. For this reason, she focuses on meditation, psychology, ancient traditions, and, most importantly, the broad Baltic mythology rooted in Indo-European culture.

INTERVIEW | Bo Zhang

INTERVIEW | Bo Zhang

Bo Zhang is an artist, designer, and co-curator, based between Beijing and New York. Creativity and originality are the most solid foundations on which his works can be recognized and loved. He believes a good artwork should be sentimental, have a soul, not a cold entity, but a wonderful interaction with people. He is the founder of Desz office, a young creative studio that mixes art, design, material, and communications.

INTERVIEW | Michael Kwong

INTERVIEW | Michael Kwong

Painting is just like a bridge for Michael Kwong, linking himself and the outside world together. He can express his attitude toward life and his thought about things, and more importantly, he can interact with people through his artworks. He wants to use his painting to spread a positive power to people and bring a better and prettier world to people through his paintings.

INTERVIEW | Marco Lando

INTERVIEW | Marco Lando

Marco Lando's work is influenced by his New York theatre background. Combining existential plot lines, dramatic lighting, and surrealist stage design, the otherworldly mise-en-scenes he creates operate on a visceral, symbolic level. His latest series, the post-apocalyptic realm of Alchemy, evokes a timeless spiritual abyss where atonement and purification seem forever out of reach.

INTERVIEW | Allan Linder

INTERVIEW | Allan Linder

Allan Linder is a prolific, award-winning artist with more than thirty years of experience producing a wide range of artwork using multiple mediums and subject matter. He fabricates paintings, drawings, digital artwork, mixed media artworks, and sculptures, using a variety of materials and substrates. His recent work Cityscapes are a collection of hand-painted artworks scanned at high resolution and digitally painted.

INTERVIEW | Marija Toskovic

INTERVIEW | Marija Toskovic

Marija Toskovic's work is based on an abstract “self-landscape,” which aims to redefine the perception of an external projection of the inner identity. She is interested in exploring the idea of (im)permanence of the “other side” on the horizon and in the landscape, which defines the immutability of intimate geography in her work.

INTERVIEW | Yu-Ching Wang

INTERVIEW | Yu-Ching Wang

Yu-Ching Wang was born in Taipei, Taiwan and now lives and works in New York. She is an interdisciplinary artist and works in video, performative action, spatial installation, and photography. Yu-Ching's recent works focus on exploring the social and cultural elements in the environment around her through the lens of her identity as a foreigner. She strives for the moment people become aware of unexpected realities provoked by her projects.

INTERVIEW | Shurooq Amin

INTERVIEW | Shurooq Amin

Shurooq Amin is a mixed-media interdisciplinary Kuwait artist and an Anglophone poet who aims to instigate positive change in society. As an artist, her work reflects the socio-political dichotomy of the region she lives in, albeit sarcastically, by holding up a mirror to society, loud and unequivocally clear, drawing people in and allowing them to open a dialogue.

INTERVIEW | Christine Comeau

INTERVIEW | Christine Comeau

Christine Comeau is a visual artist and cultural worker. Her practice is based on multidisciplinary installation, sculpture, and living poetry. Her research focuses on mobility, exile, constraint, and the physical and mental boundaries created by travel. Current tropes in her work are the tent, a portable shelter that accompanies us on our travels, and clothes. She lives and works in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

INTERVIEW | Ester Crocetta

INTERVIEW | Ester Crocetta

Ester Crocetta is an Italian visual artist. Her latest project, CHICCHIRIA Poultry, is a summary of years of deep interior reflection. The concept of the CHICCHIRIA Poultry is the theme of “ANIMAL FOOD”. Our liberated, consumerist society is still struggling to evolve towards this new theme. History has caused us to reflect on the balance and harmony within nature, teaching new limits regarding the excessive consumption of meat.

INTERVIEW | Brett Ashby

INTERVIEW | Brett Ashby

Brett Ashby's practise spans painting, sculpture, film, theatre, sound, and installation. The multi-disciplinary artist, known for adopting unorthodox methodologies of practice, has explored multimedia forms of art creation since starting his practise in 2006 in London. Ashby presents new work that pushes against the binary that trauma is equally from the land as in people.