The Welded Book (felt, resin, glue, clay, welded bolts, and hand-carved and hand-printed text) is the result of the brotherly collaboration between conceptual/visual artist Dumitru Gorzo, and poet Ilies Gorzo. The duo hand-made the work in its entirety, potently combining minimalism and romanticism. There are two stories that unfold. The first alludes to the accessibility of the content or text; the second investigates the idea of possession of an […]

Self Expression. This is ostensibly the aim of all artists, and certainly the most common euphemism employed to describe abstract artwork. For Kandinsky, in his classic text, Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1911), self-expression and the aim of art was a spiritual endeavor, one that led the artist on a journey into his/her interior wellspring of mystical […]

During Art H.K. 2010, I did my debut group project with Wong Wai-Yin, called Everything Goes Wrong for the Poor Couple. This piece was inspired by Hong Kong movies from the 50s and 60s, which are about family ethics and morals. There are many dramatic and tragic scenes, which are so familiar to everyone, even […]

I work with scientific data to test and reshape perceptions of everyday phenomena by presenting them in unfamiliar ways and contexts. Perceptual forms are interchanged and complex codes created, often beginning with the deconstruction of the familiar to open up new avenues of reception. Our confidence in familiar sensory perception is shaken, and an experiential […]

This past summer London-based gallery Nettie Horn celebrated its third birthday with an exhibition named The Collective, which brought together a selection of new works by the gallery’s artists from the U.K., Scandinavia, Germany, and Canada. Annie Attridge creates delicately crafted figurative scenes and objects that are expressionistic and often overtly sexual. Her sculptures notably […]

I have the desire to achieve in my sculpture an accessible, spontaneous experience for the viewer that is bold, exuberant, swollen, but also exquisitely delicate and smart. I combine two mediums that seem to naturally accomplish this best: air and lightweight colorful fabric. I restrict the form with the stitches and seams, so that they […]

Marcin Cienski summons the intangible. Using old photographs, pictures from magazines, personal artifacts, and memories as source material, the Poland-born, Berlin-based artist creates lush, exquisitely rendered oil paintings that tap into our collective unconscious. His moody, sometimes sinister work fuses the ordinary with the unsettling. While the objects and scenes he portrays seem familiar, his […]

I was born in the 1970s in a small village in Shaanxi, where I spent a sometimes-gloomy, sometimes-happy childhood. As I recall, during my childhood, there was never enough food and we could hardly keep ourselves warm. There was also no electricity. The only fun to be had was listening to my grandfather’s stories. My […]

Afshan Ketabchi belongs to a new generation of Iranian women artists. They occupy a position in the art world, where the effects of globalization are evermore clearly apparent. The West has diverse images of Iran, between clichés of tyranny and despotism on the one hand, and wisdom and sensuality from One Thousand and One Nights […]

Catherine Y. Hsieh: Your recent body of work turns ordinary household routines into chaotic little disasters. This desire to dissect what appears banal—does it come from a rebel kind of character within you? If so, how often do you feel the existence of this character? How do you interact? Lee Materazzi: A lot of my […]