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Check out the latest videos on the Artists channel. Here you'll find interviews and art market commentary from the likes of Ai Wei Wei, Richard Jackson, Ellsworth Kelly, Antony Caro, Anthony Gormley, David LaChapelle, Martin Parr, Julian Opie, Michael Craig-Martin to name but a few.
Massimo Bartolini's Musical Scaffolding
Date added: 26th August 2010
Speaking at Art Basel 2010, Massimo Bartolini explains the concept behind his popular installation, Organi 2007/8 in which he turned a scaffolding structure into an instrument controlled by an oversized music box roller. He also talks about his early life and the influences which led him to become an artist. Interview by Jean Wainwright.
Zilvinas Kempinas - Visual Audio Tape
Date added: 18th August 2010
Fair Oasis
Lithuanian artist Zilvinas Kempinas created a stir at Art Basel 41 with his floating tape sculpture Oasis generating an odd calm in the busy fair. Kempinas has been fascinated by such delicate sculptures from an early age and was encouraged by his parents who didn't seem to mind his penchant for interior re-decorating. Interview by Jean Wainwright.
Franco's Sexual Oppression
Date added: 10th August 2010
Simon Fujiwara's Spanish Fantasy
Baloise Prize winner Simon Fujiwara's piece Welcome to the Hotel Munber (2010) which showed in Art Statements at Art Basel, set the stage of the life of his parents during the Franco Era in Spain. With a backdrop of sexual oppression enforced by the dictator, Fujiwara creates an environment which is one minute comforting and the next, disturbing. Interview by Jean Wainwright
Seductive Sculptures - Maria Nepomuceno
Date added: 4th August 2010
Victoria Miro artist Maria Nepomuceno attracted attention at Art Statements in Basel this year with her hand made, woven-beaded scultpure Hammock Net. Combining organic shapes with vivid colour Nepomuceno toys with space and structure, form and concept. Interview by Jean Wainwright
"It's very large Pointillism"
Date added: 1st July 2010
Billy Childish talks to Jean Wainwright following his highly successful outing to Art Basel 41 in June 2010. Childish became immersed in the buzz surrounding Berlin's Neugerriemschneider gallery but still managed to find time to take tea with Bianca Jagger who purchased one of his paintings.