Tally Beck on Sheng Qi Beijing-based artist Sheng Qi is probably best known for his act of personal defiance following the events in Tiananmen Square in June 1989: he cut off the little finger of his left hand.  Since then, he has incorporated the image and concept of this self-mutilation into his work, which includes […]

My early work in the aquarium involved plaster models of mountains arranged into a landscape, the tank filled with water, various gel covered lights and colored liquid paint dispersed into the water to make cloud effects.  The back of the tank was covered with translucent Mylar and more lights were shining through this layer to […]

Life on a Leaf explores the possibilities of building a personal house as a total artwork. Andersson is interested in the way stories can influence the shape, the ornaments and the interior of a house. The aesthetics of the house is inspired by the Art Nouveau concept of the house as a shelter for an […]

I have always been inspired to an extent by escapism. When I was young I used to lie in bed with my Walkman on. Eyes closed, I would enter a place in my head where I could spend hours creating an ever-evolving world of super heroes, theme park rides and flying machines. I was compelled […]

When I was 18 I was…a girl, hitching across Europe with a friend, another girl, who had an old Rolliflex medium format camera. This impressed me greatly. After 6 months of high adventure, we returned to our small town on the California coast and I decided what I wanted to do with my life. I […]

Photography is something of an evolution for me. I was always connected with painting; I grew up surrounded by paints and brushes, and it seemed as if everybody around me was always painting or drawing. I was watching and touching beautiful handmade frames my grandmother made 50 years earlier, my grandfather was making beautiful hand […]

Linus, you are a very optimistic person, with a good disposition and a lot of enthusiasm. You love freedom and hate daily routine. You are very restless and curious, which will engender unexpected and risky situations. Thanks to your ingenuity and optimism you will always come out ahead, either by receiving unexpected help or by […]

I was born in in Vienna, Austria. I originally studied at the university of applied arts fashion design, and since 2006 presenting I have been showing my collections in Paris and London and Berlin. Photography in my cigarette break. Sometimes I wish all colors would fade. monochrome desire. Anna Aichinger   I was born in […]

These five photographs were taken in 1987 and printed in 2006, when I went through all the thousands of proof sheets I had produced between 1972 and 1995 and found a number of images that I had overlooked at the time that I now felt should be printed. They are photographs of above-ground tombs that […]

It is not easy to be confronted with the painting of a master. It is unsettling. It unnerves one. It may even bring tears to the eyes. How can one look at Picassoís Les Demoiselles DíAvignon and not reexamine oneís notion of art? Forget traditional concepts of art. Ignore ideas of beauty and harmony. Picassoís […]