Con una vida que se desarrolla entre las calles parisinas y Buenos Aires, María Ibáñez Lago, artista plástica y escenógrafa, se formó en Escenografía y Pintura en la Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, París, en el taller de Zao-Woo-ki y en Argentina tomó clínicas con Diana Aisenberg.
Time Levels: A Conversation with Claudia Wieser
German artist Claudia Wieser works with photo-based wallpaper, ceramic tile, and other seemingly decorative elements to create environments filled with crisscrossing historical and biographical narratives. Working between art and utilitarian object, she considers the various components in her structures, which refer to art, architecture, design, film, and theater, as “individuals in a constellation.”
Open Intervals: A Conversation with Lucila Sancineti
Lucila Sancineti, a visual artist trained at the University of Buenos Aires and a literature instructor, continuously explores ways of working with matter. Her interdisciplinary approach to sculpture and installation employs painting, textiles, ceramics, and biomaterials to extend our perceptions of ordinary encounters, objects, and experiences.
Interstitial Existence: A Conversation with Kishio Suga
For six decades, Kishio Suga has explored the question of whether intentions adhere to things. One of Japan’s most important artists and a key figure in the Mono-ha movement, he began his career in the late 1960s, using natural and industrial materials to create temporary installations that aimed to show “the reality of mono (things/materials) and the jōkyō (situation) that holds them together.”
Señalamientos: Una Conversación con Voluspa Jarpa
Oriunda de Rancagua, Chile, la artista multidisciplinaria Voluspa Jarpa, Docente Universidad Católica de Chile y con una vasta formación no solamente en el campo del arte sino en todas las áreas que comprometen, cultural y políticamente, el desarrollo y comprensión de los movimientos sociales, la historia y su representación.
Positive Negatives: A Conversation with Roland Persson
The work of Swedish artist Roland Persson manifests a profoundly complex verisimilitude. This applies not only to the nature of his subject matter, which ranges from dreams and personal experience to considerations of the human condition, our relationship to nature, and the vagaries of urban life, but also to form and content, which are governed by his scientific attention to detail, technical skill, material choices, and psychological approach.
Constant Negotiation: A Conversation with Anya Gallaccio
Anya Gallaccio’s sculptures and installations encourage deep engagement with the natural world and its cycles of growth and decay. Since the 1990s, she has been using organic materials, including apples, flowers, trees, chocolate, wax, ice, and chalk, that undergo radical transformation during the lifetime of the work.
No Clear Boundaries: A Conversation with Christopher McNulty
Recipient of the 2024 Educator Award For 25 years, Christopher McNulty, director and professor in the School of Art at the University of Tennessee, has examined the fragile equilibrium between humans and their surroundings.
Something Tangible: A Conversation with Stefanie Hollerbach
Dresden-based Stefanie Hollerbach is interested in materials and materiality, as well as paradoxes. After initially training as a wood sculptor, she went on to study with Alicja Kwade at the Dresden University of Fine Arts. Hollerbach’s works deal with the world of things, particularly ordinary, often overlooked details.
Object Lessons: Melissa Stern
I begin with the germ of an idea—a color, an object, a gesture. From that small beginning, a piece develops. I often make process drawings of a sculpture, but I never know what or who it’s going to be.
