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.
Field of Experimentation: A Conversation with Sofía Salazar Rosales
Sofía Salazar Rosales, a sculptor and installation artist who lives in Amsterdam, explores a range of unexpected forms and materials, many of them referring to her Ecuadorian roots. She’s known for her “material-poetic” practice, often infused with sociopolitical content.
Ecophilia: A Conversation with Garret Kane
Garret Kane, an interdisciplinary sculptor, animator, and writer currently working in Brooklyn, New York, uses storytelling, myth-making, and character-building to create fictional worlds (complete with android-like beings) that fuse the organic and the technological.
La cerámica manda: Una Conversación con Santiago Lena
Santiago Lena, nacido en Puerto Madryn, se define como artista ceramista, una especialidad que lo lleva a explorar diversas técnicas y utilidades que le da a sus obras.
Vessels for Emotion: A Conversation with Heike Kabisch
Heike Kabisch’s work explores themes of “vulnerability, transformation and the complexities of the human condition.” In “Memories in deep creeks,” her current solo exhibition at ChertLüdde in Berlin, Germany, she turns to the mysterious ocean and its secret depths, with organic and anthropomorphic forms that map connections and distinctions.
