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Art Talks | Angelbert Metoyer, Artist

— August 20, 2010—

Art Talks is an insight into the works of some of our favourite artists, as seen by them

The New Orleans-born artist Angelbert Metoyer is perhaps more deserving of the term “shaman” than most who are described as such, exploring what he calls the “hidden language of religion” across a broad variety of ritualistic processes and artistic mediums. Next month, he exhibits his latest works in an exhibition entitled Icon Execution at the GR N’Namdi Gallery in Chicago: a...

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Art Talks | Polly Morgan, Taxidermy Artist

— August 10, 2010—

Art Talks is an insight into the works of some of our favourite artists, as seen by them

Polly Morgan's latest show at Haunch of Venison represents a new conceptual watershed for the artist who has often been called the "queen of taxidermy." Exploring ideas about the journey of the soul after the point of death, Psychopomps presents us with the various winged vessels that Morgan has created to carry the spirit across the endless void. Here, she talks to John-Paul Pryor about employing her unique talen...

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Art Talks | Anna Mouglalis, Actress

— August 3, 2010—

Art Talks is an insight into the works of some of our favourite artists, as seen by them

Anna Mouglalis in a film still from Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky Anna Mouglalis is an accomplished actress renowned for her turn as Simone de Beauvoir in Les Amants du Flore and for being the face of Chanel’s luxury jewellery range. She brings something of the existential outsider to her portrayal of Coco Chanel in the startlingly dark art-house biopic Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky: a tale of passion, power and sexual obsession that could not be further in mood from it...

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Art Talks | The Knife with Mt Sims and Planningtorock

— July 15, 2010—

Art Talks is an insight into the works of some of our favourite artists, as seen by them

Tomorrow in a Year Illustrations by Sara Hernandez
In a highly abstract and collaborative project, Danish theatre experimentalists Hotel Pro Forma contacted iconoclastic Swedish electro pop duo The Knife, comprised of siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer, with the initial catalyst that would spark Tomorrow, In A Year. The idea was for an opera based on Charles Darwin and the development of natural selection – as published in his 1859 book On...

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Art Talks | John Bock

— June 28, 2010—

Art Talks is an insight into the works of some of our favourite artists, as seen by them

John Bock is a globally-renowned German artist whose bizarre performance-based interventions engage the audience in his uniquely surreal universe. For his current show at The Barbican he has created a strange mobile utopian living unit that recalls the post-apocalytpic humour of Spike Milligan's lesser-known classic The Bed Sitting Room. Here, he talks exclusively to AnOther about improvisation, future v...

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Art Talks | Bettina Buck

— June 23, 2010—

Art Talks is an insight into the works of some of our favourite artists, as seen by them

Bettina Buck, Booth (Basel), 2010 Courtesy of RokebyBettina Buck is a German artist whose work profoundly disorientates the viewer by redefining the relationship between artworks and the spaces they are exhibited in. She presents pieces that seem curiously disparate or out of place, and regularly reclaims mundane industrial or industrially produced objects. The subsequent transformation of these materials and objects questions notions of perception, and r...