What affects your choice of colors? What made you start making artwork out of old books? You are in fact a mortician and now also gallery owner, how did that happen? Art.Salon allowed itself to ask artists questions that literally impose themselves when looking at the Art. The interviews with contemporary artists allow us to look deeply and understand better.
»With the camera, I can lend permanence to the ephemeral«
Bringing time to a standstill with photography: Berlin-based photographer Elitza Nanova not only captures the dynamics of dance, but also her fascination with fleeting moments for eternity. In an in-depth conversation, she provides deep insights into her practice. The interview was conducted by Mario Stumpfe.
The inconspicuous at the center of attention
From felt to digital image processing: the intermedia painter Kim Kluge combines digital and analog design possibilities to develop a new technique, painting with a felting needle. She is currently working on a series of large-format graphite drawings. Art.Salon interviewed the artist about her work.
Transient landscapes in the water
The artist Marianne Hopf spent two months in Damnatz on the Elbe at the end of 2024 as part of a residency scholarship. The artist explores the dynamics of nature. In this interview, she gives us a closer look at her stay.
»sā Ladakh«: about the future of immersive land art
From June 1 to 10, the second edition of the innovative land art exhibition sā Ladakh will take place in Leh in northern India. After an extremely successful premiere last year, the focus is now on immersive art experiences on the theme of climate optimism.
metavier − A conversation with the mortician and gallery owner Sven Friedrich Cordes
Death in all its facets as the theme of an art gallery: founded in 2018 in Hanover-Linden, »metavier − Galerie vom Anfang und Ende« (Gallery of the Beginning and the End) by mortician Sven Friedrich Cordes pursues a very special approach that has already led to a number of interesting exhibitions.
Matthew Eguavoen
Matthew Eguavoen is an emerging artist from Lagos, Nigeria. As a painter he portrays people with a strong personality and a fixed gaze. Depicted against a reduced background, the social context is kept deliberately hidden, making it a subject for discussion. Eguavoen challenges the observer to speculate about the living conditions, experiences and characters of the people depicted, and takes them into uncertain terrain. We talked to him about his artistic position, a detailed portrait of his art you can find here.
»Color is an illusion«
Whether using rollers, strings or paint sprayers, Tomislav Topić takes unusual approaches to creating color. The artist talks to Art.Salon about the influence of graffiti, wildflowers and about the often unpredictable creation processes of his works.
The spontaneity of light
His paintings reflect the tropical light conditions of his homeland Colombia and at the same time recall the spontaneous working methods of the French Impressionists - Juan Rodriguez Varon's works testify to an openness to the immediate impressions that nature gives us. We spoke with the artist about pictorial experiments, light reflections and the ambiguity of colors at dawn.
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