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Ep.227 Zohra Opoku examines the politics of personal identity formation through historical, cultural, and socio-economic influences, particularly in the context of contemporary Ghana. Opoku's explorations have primarily been expressed through her photography, which she translates into screen printing. This process has led to a collage art practice that combines hand-stitched embroidery on various pre-dyed natural fabrics. She also incorporates references from West African brass-making traditions into her work, which can be experienced as applications on the textile pieces or as sculptures themselves. While her work relays social commentary and broadly relevant themes around the human experience, each of Zohra's explorations is intimately rooted in personal identity politics. She repeatedly integrates family heirlooms and her own self-image into her visual observations of Ghana's cultural memory. In 2023, she is among the artists exhibited in the 15th edition of Sharjah Biennale ‘Thinking Historically in the Present' (United Arab Emirates), as Black Rock Sénégal Alumni at 14th edition of DAK'ART ‘Forger/Out Of Fire' in 2022 and at 7th Athens Biennale ‘Eclipse'(Greece) 2021. She has exhibited internationally such as the Brooklyn Museum (NYC), The Museum for Photography (Chicago), The Cleveland Museum of Art, High Museum of Art (Atlanta), Kunsthaus Hamburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Musée de l'Ethnographie (Bordeaux), Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao), Kunsthal Rotterdam, Archaeological Museum of Mykonos, Southbank Centre / Hayward Gallery (London), TATE London, SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin), Palais Populaire (Berlin), National Museum Nairobi, CCA Lagos, Nubuke Foundation (Accra) and RAW Material Company (Dakar). Her work is collected by renowned institutions such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; CCS Bard College Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; The Royal Museum of Ontario Toronto, Ontario; The Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark; TATE Modern, London, United Kingdom; The Onassis Collection, Athens, Greece and The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. Zohra Opoku is born 1976 in Altdöbern (former GDR/ East Germany), lives and works in Accra/ Ghana and is represented by Mariane Ibrahim Gallery Chicago / Paris / Mexico City. Photo credit Nii Odzenma Artist https://www.zohraopoku.com/ Mariane Ibrahim Gallery https://marianeibrahim.com/artists/33-zohra-opoku/ Berlin Art Institute https://berlinartinstitute.com/visit-to-zohra-opoku-at-suite-berlin-and-mariane-ibrahim/ deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum https://thetrustees.org/exhibit/platform-33-zohra-opoku-self-portraits/ Interior Design https://interiordesign.net/designwire/10-questions-with-textile-artist-zohra-opoku/ Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/2d916c9b-fafe-457e-8d21-0b6763430668 C& https://contemporaryand.com/magazines/zohra-opoku-empowering-children-of-color-to-love-themselves/ The Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/09/10/four-galleries-and-four-artists-team-up-on-collaborative-project-suite-berlin Aperture https://aperture.org/editorial/zohra-opokus-evocative-reflections-on-mortality-and-resilience/ NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/arts/design/african-royalty-tate-modern.html The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/nov/01/laced-cut-mix-review-new-art-exchange-nottingham Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zohra_Opoku
Open your mind to learn about art history, curating, the Pre-Raphaelites and more with this enlightening conversation with Sophie Lynford, curator at the Delaware Art Museum. She discusses her path as a curator, her interest in Pre-Raphaelites, her recently published book, her curatorial project with the Tate London, and tips for artists to engage and exhibit with museums. Sophie's book: Art, Ethics, and the American Pre-Raphaelites The Delaware Art Museum: https://delart.org/ REINVENTION Masterclass: https://www.thecreativeheroines.com/reinvention-masterclass The NEW website for The Creative Heroine is at www.thecreativeheroines.com . Explore the site for courses, coaching, community and more! Creative Heroine Instagram: @thecreativeheroines Follow me on Instagram at @jessicaliborstudio for my art and @thecreativeheroines for creative community and coaching. See my artwork and collect at www.jessicalibor.com. Reach out to me for inquiries to collect my art or work with me in a creative coaching capacity at jlibor@jessicalibor.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecreativeheroine/support
Niamh MacNally, curator at the National Gallery of Ireland, discusses a new collaboration with the Tate London showcasing 89 works by landscape artist JMW Turner.
This episode we are thrilled to be joined by an amazing gallerist - and friend - Jessica Silverman. Jessica founded her namesake gallery in 2008 in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district; after completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art at Otis College in Los Angeles and a Master of Arts in Curatorial Practice at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Since then, the gallery has moved to a newly renovated space in the city’s Chinatown neighborhood, with an impressive roster of artists such as: Judy Chicago, Hugh Scott-Douglas, Isaac Julien, Andrea Bowers, and (one of our personal favorites) Hayal Pozanti - just to name a few. Renowned for punching above its weight, the gallery has an international reputation for curating compelling exhibitions and building artists’ careers. Works by the gallery’s artists have been acquired by leading museums all over the world including: Tate (London), Centre Pompidou (Paris), MoMA (New York), MCA Chicago, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art - among many others. Visit the gallery's website here. Some artists discussed in this episode: Yoko Ono Ay-O Soo Kim Woody De Othello Dashiell (Dash) Manley Isaac Julien Judy Chicago Andrea Bowers Clare Rojas Catherine Wagner Sadie Barnette La Monte Young Robert Smithson Rose B. Simpson Howardena Pindell Joan Jonas Jackson Pollock Clyfford Still Barnett Newman For images, artworks, and more behind the scenes goodness, follow @artfromtheoutsidepodcast on Instagram.
Daniel Lismore is considered one of today’s most influential fashion leaders. His authenticity and personal courage have inspired works of striking originality and bold ideas. Through the medium of fashion, Daniel achieves a synthesis of art, history and culture that truly transcend time.His book, Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken, includes contributions by Debbie Harry, Boy George, Steven Fry, Vivienne Westwood and Stefano Pilati. His record-setting exhibition of the same name opened at SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film in 2016, followed by Art Basel in Miami--later traveling to Iceland, Italy, and Poland. Over his career, Daniel has collaborated with photographers like Mario Testino, Steven Klein, and David LaChapelle. He’s worked with celebrated art directors, models, fashion designers, and actors. As Creative Director of Sorapol, he won critical acclaim for his work with some of the world’s most beautiful and influential women: Nicki Minaj, Mariah Carey, Rita Ora, Debbie Harry, and Cara Delavigne. This past year, Daniel starred in Burberry Creative Director Riccardo Tischi’s Pride Month campaign. Along side Iggy Pop, he starred in H&M’s Close the Loop Campaign promoting sustainable clothing, as well as Bulgari’s Sustainable Future campaign in 2019 and newly released Bulgari 2020 campaign. Currently, Daniel presides as Circuit ambassador for the Tate Modern, and has presented two exhibitions at the Tate London.In this two-part interview we discuss Daniel’s work with Vivienne Westwood and her Climate Revolution projects, and his modeling career culminating in the September 2019 opening of Naomi Campbell’s Fashion for Relief runway show at the British Museum.We talk about Daniel’s costume design collaboration with Swarovski for the English National Opera’s production of The Mask of Orpheus, and his work with fellow Cool Earth Ambassador Pamela Anderson and David LaChapelle at the English National Ballet which he produced and starred in. We highlight Daniel’s candid interview with Tim Yip, Academy Award Winning Art Director of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. And share a sneak preview of Yip’s new film in which Daniel has a starring role. We hear about a celebrated punk exhibition on the Thames in the company of Vivienne Westwood...and so much more. If 2020 taught us anything it’s that we all crave freedom—freedom to create, freedom to prosper, and freedom to love. In that spirit, I hope you enjoy this two-part series in which we explore fashion as art, and the role creativity can play in bringing our world closer together. For links to Daniel Lismore’s Interview with Tim Yip and Vivienne Westwood’s Climate Revolution Project please click the links below. Interview with Tim Yip: https://www.instagram.com/p/CI4RFUrAAd2/ Vivienne Westwood's Climate Revolution Project and Map:https://climaterevolution.co.uk/wp/You can follow Daniel on Instagram: @daneillismore Facebook, Clubhouse, TikTok, Twitter and Linkedin. www.daniellelismore.com
Daniel Lismore is considered one of today’s most influential fashion leaders. His authenticity and personal courage have inspired works of striking originality and bold ideas. Through the medium of fashion, Daniel achieves a synthesis of art, history and culture that truly transcend time.His book, Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken, includes contributions by Debbie Harry, Boy George, Steven Fry, Vivienne Westwood and Stefano Pilati. His record-setting exhibition of the same name opened at SCAD FASH in 2016, followed by showings at Art Basel in Miami--later traveling to Iceland, Italy, and Poland. Over his career, Daniel has collaborated with photographers like Mario Testino, Steven Klein, and David LaChapelle. He’s worked with celebrated art directors, models, fashion designers, and actors. As Creative Director of Sorapol, he won critical acclaim for his work with some of the world’s most beautiful and influential women: Nicki Minaj, Mariah Carey, Rita Ora, Debbie Harry, and Cara Delavigne. This past year, Daniel starred in Burberry Creative Director Riccardo Tischi’s Pride Month campaign. Along side Iggy Pop, he starred in H&M’s Close the Loop Campaign promoting sustainable clothing, as well as Bulgari’s Sustainable Future campaign in 2019.Currently, Daniel presides as Circuit ambassador for the Tate Modern, and has presented two exhibitions at the Tate London.In this two-part interview we discuss Daniel’s work with Vivienne Westwood and her Climate Revolution projects, and his modeling career culminating in the September 2019 opening of Naomi Campbell’s Fashion for Relief runway show at the British Museum.We talk about Daniel’s costume design collaboration with Swarovski for the English National Opera’s production of The Mask of Orpheus, and his work with fellow Cool Earth Ambassador Pamela Anderson and David LaChapelle at the English National Ballet which he produced and starred in. We highlight Daniel’s candid interview with Tim Yip, Academy Award Winning Art Director of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. And share a sneak preview of Yip’s new film in which Daniel has a starring role.We hear about a celebrated punk exhibition on the Thames in the company of Vivienne Westwood...and so much more. If 2020 taught us anything it’s that we all crave freedom—freedom to create, freedom to prosper, and freedom to love. In that spirit, I hope you enjoy this two-part series in which we explore fashion as art, and the role creativity can play in bringing our world closer together. For links to Daniel Lismore’s Interview with Tim Yip and Vivienne Westwood’s Climate Revolution Project please click the links below. Interview with Tim Yip: https://www.instagram.com/p/CI4RFUrAAd2/ https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/gallery/londons-most-lavish-new-opera-costumes-daniel-lismore Vivienne Westwood's Climate Revolution Project and Map:https://climaterevolution.co.uk/wp/http://climaterevolution.co.uk/wp/2015/12/03/vivienne-westwood-full-speech/You can follow Daniel on Instagram: @daneillismore Facebook, Clubhouse, TikTok, Twitter and Linkedin. www.daniellelismore.com Thanks again for joining us on the GENIUS DESIGN TRANSCENDS TIME podcast.
Season 7 continues with another Talk Art exclusive! Russell & Robert meet artist Jadé Fadojutimi for a special tour of 'Jesture', her recent London solo exhibition at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery. Fadojutimi created this remarkable new series of paintings during lockdown. Next year, she will participate in Liverpool Biennial 2021 as well solo exhibitions at Institute of Contemporary Art (Miami), The Hepworth (Wakefield) and Taka Ishii (Tokyo). The title of the exhibition, Jesture, touches on a sense of the absurd, responding to the disruption of daily rhythms arising from forced isolation during lockdown. Central to Fadojutimi’s practice is a repeated questioning of identity, its fluid nature and how the understanding of notions of pleasure, desire and choice are integral to a sense of self. Addressing the exchange between an individual and their environment, the vivid choices of colour and form derive from the associative qualities of the special items that capture her attention and the memories they invoke. Fadojutimi’s studio is filled with objects, drawings and writings that evoke nostalgic pleasure. Powerful memories, experienced whilst listening to film, animation and video game soundtracks, transport Fadojutimi to the first time she encountered them, eliciting a response that is experienced through intense colour. The synthesis of these various influences, through which Fadojutimi understands her sense of self, is transformed into large-scale gestural paintings charged with energy and emotion. Described by Fadojutimi as environments, these complex compositions, neither wholly abstract nor figurative, are built up with layers of oil paint, interrupted by the more linear mark-making made possible by her recent adoption of oil pastels. The introduction of new materials into her painting has enabled the artist to think more broadly about palette, composition and depth, while translating the spontaneity of her drawing on to the canvas. Jadé Fadojutimi (b.1993) lives and works in London. She earned a BA from The Slade School of Fine Art, London in 2015 and an MA from the Royal College of Art, London in 2017. After Pippy Houldsworth Gallery took on representation of the artist and presented her first solo exhibition at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery in 2017-18, she had her first one-person institutional show at PEER UK, London in 2019. Acquisitions by Tate London; ICA Miami, and a promised gift to Dallas Museum of Art followed soon after. She had her first solo exhibition in Germany with Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, in 2018 and will have her first solo exhibition in Japan with Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, opening March 2021. Fadojutimi has been selected to participate in Liverpool Biennial 2021. Her first solo US museum exhibition will be presented at ICA Miami, opening in November 2021. She will also have a solo exhibition of new work at The Hepworth Wakefield in 2021.Visit her website at: http://jadefadojutimi.com/ and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery: https://www.houldsworth.co.uk/. Follow Jade at Instagram: @JadeFadojutimiFor images of all artworks discussed in this episode visit @TalkArt. Talk Art theme music by Jack Northover @JackNorthoverMusic courtesy of HowlTown.com We've just joined Twitter too @TalkArt. If you've enjoyed this... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
We're BACK and we are partying like it's NINE (teen) NINETY NINE...it's the ninth episode as you can clearly see. We return with talk about a petrol station ruckus, a day at Tate London and how violence is never the answer...unless the question is, 'What is never the answer?"... Obviously, the old Listy Hate Hate is back with some vehemence focusing on Beard Accessories and Flearthing, among other things. We have a NEW FEATURE called 'Beakle's About' where we are helped out with keeping our fingers very much on the pulse. If you want to get in touch follow us on Instagram and Twitter @babblementpod Facebook fb.me/babblmentpod or email us babblementpod@gmail.com
This week: Artist and educator Steve Reinke. Steve Reinke is an artist and writer best known for his single channel videos, which have been screened, exhibited and collected worldwide. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Guelph and York University, as well as a Master of Fine Arts from NSCAD University. The Hundred Videos — Mr. Reinke's work as a young artist — was completed in 1996, several years ahead of schedule. Since then he has completed many short single channel works and has had several solo exhibitions/screenings, in various venues such as the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), The Power Plant (Toronto), the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Argos Festival (Brussels), Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Tate (London). His tapes typically have diaristic or collage formats, and his autobiographical voice-overs share his desires and pop culture appraisals with endearing wit. His fertile brain and restless energy have led to a prolific output: Reinke's ambitious project The Hundred Videos (1989-1996), which runs about five hours, appeared first in a VHS video-cassette compilation, then was released as a triple DVD set by Art Metropole in Toronto in 2007. His double DVD set My Rectum is not a Grave (Notes to a Film Industry in Crisis), also from Art Metropole, 2007, includes fourteen titles dating from 1997 to 2006. Mr. Reinke's video work is an extension of literature, focusing on the voice and performance. His video essays often feature first-person monologues in an ironic/satiric mode. Where earlier work was often concerned with an interrogation of desire and subjectivity, more recent work, collected under the umbrella of Final Thoughts, concerns the limits of things: discourse, experience, events, thought. His single channel work is distributed in Canada by Vtape and he is represented by Birch Libralato Gallery in Toronto. He is currently associate professor of Art Theory & Practice at Northwestern University. In the 1990's he produced a book of his scripts, Everybody Loves Nothing: Scripts 1997 – 2005, which was published by Coach House (Toronto). He has also co-edited several books, including By the Skin of Their Tongues: Artist Video Scripts (co-edited with Nelson Henricks, 1997), Lux: A Decade of Artists' Film and Video (with Tom Taylor, 2000), and The Sharpest Point: Animation at the End of Cinema (with Chris Gehman, 2005). In awarding the Bell Canada prize for Video Art to Steve Reinke, the assessment committee said: “Steve Reinke is one of the most influential artists currently working in video. With the first installments of The Hundred Videos in the early 1990's he led a generation away from the studio into a new conceptual fiction. But Mr. Reinke's contribution goes beyond his important tapes, he is a committed teacher and he has edited and co-edited several important media arts anthologies.” Check out Steve's websites: www.myrectumisnotagrave.com www.fennelplunger.com