Mixed media

INTERVIEW | Judit Bodrogi

INTERVIEW | Judit Bodrogi

Judit Bodrogi, a textile artist from Budapest, uses yarn like other artists use their pencils, drawing on canvas with needle and yarn. Her pictures present the pressures placed on us by our own society. Judit often deals with these deep topics through her own emotions, working and processing her own traumas throughout the art.

INTERVIEW | Sean Alistair

INTERVIEW | Sean Alistair

Sean Alistair is a queer, self-taught, Canadian-born artist currently residing in the Bavarian countryside of Germany. His art is a visual journal where he discusses the intense impact of seemingly mundane or innocuous experiences. Each of Sean’s mixed media works is completely sewn and created by hand over hundreds of hours and focuses on material exploration, found objects, recycling, and reworking old paintings.

INTERVIEW | Sveta Amova

INTERVIEW | Sveta Amova

Sveta Amova is a mixed media artist, designer, and founder of AMOVA Jewelry. Her latest series, Tennis Reborn, takes as its starting point a humble tennis ball, an object that is all too often considered disposable after it has lost its bounce. Their distinctive fuzz, shape, and bright color inspired the artist to give them a second life and transform them into artworks.

INTERVIEW | Eugene Ofori Agyei

INTERVIEW | Eugene Ofori Agyei

Eugene Ofori Agyei (1993) is a ceramic sculptor, fiber, and installation artist, and an educator originally from Ghana living in Gainesville, Florida. Agyei creates sculptures and installations that incorporate African batik fabrics, yarn, ceramics, and everyday objects filled with personal and cultural meaning to explore cultural identity, belonging, displacement, memories, and place.

INTERVIEW | Saliha Kaytan

INTERVIEW | Saliha Kaytan

Saliha Kaytan is a Turkish artist, based in Istanbul. The artist, who examines memory in general with an inductive method, examines rational and irrational phenomena by underlining the contrast between the emotions and behaviors of the human being in this cycle. She tries to carry this to a collective dimension based on her own memory.

INTERVIEW | Leslie Garcia Blanco

INTERVIEW | Leslie Garcia Blanco

Leslie García Blanco is a visual artist of Cuban origin who lives between Cuba and Switzerland. His work is characterized by the versatility of his staging as well as his constant concern for the poetics of everyday life. García Blanco finds reasons and procedures that displaces with apparent naturalness and spontaneity to the field of visual arts.

INTERVIEW | Chary Hilu

INTERVIEW | Chary Hilu

Artist and teacher of fine arts from Argentina, Chary Hilu is a member of the Association of Visual Artists of Argentina. Her works are conceived as a response to the sensations, feelings, and experiences evoked by extreme situations. They adapt to the context and are changed according to the context. They acquire an expressive power that results from the combination of technique and emotion.

INTERVIEW | Thomas Behling

INTERVIEW | Thomas Behling

Thomas Behling is a German artist, born in Hanover in 1979. Modeled on found historical (authentic) objects, the objects by Thomas Behling pave the way for insight into the deception and transfiguration of appearances. In them, the viewer is confronted with the socio-historical memory and through specific filters and amplifiers with their private and subjective memory.

INTERVIEW | Fernando Madera Alvarado

INTERVIEW | Fernando Madera Alvarado

Fernando Madera Alvarado is a Mexican artist. His work is mostly composed of bidimensional surfaces: paper of all sorts, canvases, walls, or wood panels. For the last couple of years, his work has been focused on acrylic ink compositions. He also works with digital software to modify his ink sketches and compile them for use on larger compositions.

INTERVIEW | Betty Mariani

INTERVIEW | Betty Mariani

Betty Mariani's inspiration comes from the punk culture of the 70s, cinema, literature, pop art, and street art. Through this staging process, the artist questions our relationship to the image, to notions of intimacy and identity, in a world where digital information and social networks reign supreme. Thus Betty Mariani's paintings easily reflect the spirit of our time, which she finds fragmented and connected, dispersed but rallied.

INTERVIEW | Marques de Jadraque

INTERVIEW | Marques de Jadraque

Marqués de Jadraque's inspiration comes from living day to day, from his travels, contact with people, what he reads, what he sees in other artists, the conversations he had with friends, and from the cinema. To sum it up, somehow... Right now, Miguel is interested in figurative abstraction, inspired by this spring and the colors of nature.

INTERVIEW | Ruiqi Zhang

INTERVIEW | Ruiqi Zhang

Ruiqi's art and research combine critical thinking about Internet culture and China's online rural community. Incorporating the observation of emerging mobile technology, short-video platform, Internet narrative, many of Ruiqi's works express the concern of media strategies, cultural and class divide under the dominant discourse.

INTERVIEW | Salvatore Esposito

INTERVIEW | Salvatore Esposito

Contemporary Art Magazine, Interview. Salvatore Esposito is an Italian artist based in London, UK. Salvatore tends to use upcycled material in almost all his works, trying to picture an abstract urban view without human- being direct presence; though what remains is still the sign of his/her interventions.

INTERVIEW | Stephanie Zwerschke

INTERVIEW | Stephanie Zwerschke

Stephanie Zwerschke draws her inspiration from all her surroundings that incorporate nature, fragility, age, and beauty in decay. She experiments with the rather unusual painting media steel plates and rust. The artist transfers the metaphorical value of rusting steel to the level of her art through the images she displays.

INTERVIEW | Krishna Pulkundwar

INTERVIEW | Krishna Pulkundwar

Krishna Pulkundwar deals with different artistic mediums, techniques, and processes. He believes simple is the best, but the simplest thing is the most difficult to create. His work is inspired by every sensible thought, where raw thoughts are subconscious visuals. In day to day activities, problems, attractive forms, desires, expectations, leave reflections on his mind.