Bill Viola, Artist of Video Art
Irina Vernichenko, “Art &signature’s” interviewed Aleksandra Danilova, curator and Director of the Sector of the Western art at the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum to find out more behind Bill Viola’s videoart. Irina Vernichenko: The exhibitions of Bill Viola were recently showed at Palazzo Reale, in Milan (11 — 06. 2023) and in the Pushkin Museum […]
Forward-Looking Contemporary Art, Art Basel 2023
Irina Vernichenko from «Art &signatures» offers a review of Art Basel ( June 2023), the most intresting art event of the summer. Though contemporary art has taken many forms, it always follows one categorical imperative, that is to move forward. Paintings, decorative panels, installations, sculptures and other “consumer durables” that were shown by galleries at […]
Better, more beautiful and tolerant
Meet Dasha Feklenko, a film director and actress. Daria discusses her 2022-2023 television series with Art&signatures’s Irina Vernichenko. As a filmmaker Daria is committed to “all-embracing”, life-teaching cinema. Her characters always have style. Irina Vernichenko: What makes the art of directing contemporary television series? Daria Feklenko: Television series in Russia is a complicated genre nowadays. […]
Interview with Martha Fiennes
The artist tells “Art&signatures” what is behind “Yugen” digital art work: Irina Vernichenko, Artd&signatures: What is possible for artists in the expanded field of digital technologies ? Martha Fiennes : This time “Phygital”comes up a lot, this idea that works can exist in the real world, in the analogue world that we inhabit, and simultaneously […]
Australian Aboriginal Art at Foundation Burkhardt- Felder
This article is contributed to ArtDecision by Theresa Burkhardt-Felder. Theresa Burkhardt- Felder and her husband are the founders of the Foundation Burkhardt-Felder Arts and Culture and run an Australian Aboriginal Art Museum in Môtiers, Switzerland: Why and since when do we have this passion for Australian Aboriginal art? Once we had established ourselves in Australia in the […]
Collection of David H.Brolliet, Geneva and Dakar
David Brolliet about contemporary African art: I have two objectives: one is my personal collection, that I have been collecting for 40 years, – I am interested in collecting contemporary African art. Another goal is buying art from African, Senegalese artist and either leaving these art works in an African museum, or creating a new […]
Art Located in the Present: Vladimir Dubossarsky
Art is not life. Art is responsible for special zones and does not always directly answer questions, but art can take steps, break through space, and people may not understand that it was a breakthrough until humanity grows up to these standards.(V.Dubossarsky) On the precipice of 2022, artist Vladimir Dubossarsky shared his views with “Art& […]
Ilya Repin at Petit Palais, Paris
Sofia Aksenova, Tretyakov Gallery: For me the most appealing aspect of I.Repin’s story and personality is its modernity. How could we possibly describe his biography using modern language? -It was probably his conscious desire and belief in himself (that appeared from somewhere in early childhood in conditions where, it seems, nothing favoured it), that he […]
Jean-François Champollion, Rediscovering Egyptian
A new museum – le Musée Champollion -has opened its doors to visitors in Vif, France. “Art& Signatures” offers an interview with Professor, Senior Reseacher of Institute for Papyrology of University of Heidelberg – Dr. Rodney Ast about Jean-François Champollion’s discovery and about contemporary Egyptology. Irina Vernichenko: What is the future of Egyptology? Rodney Ast: The 19th and 20th century marked intense periods […]
Biennale Architettura 2021 “How Will We Live Together?”
“This report about attending the 2021 Biennale is subjective and biased. Venice is one of the most beautiful and interesting cities for me. This year, the trip to Venice was particularly special,” – Leonid Slonimsky. “It was the first time that I went there not only as a visitot but also as a participant of […]
