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London based editor Zoltan Alexander of ZOLTAN+MEDIA meets artists, designers, musicians and people in the film industry to interview them for international publications. Audio & Video recordings.
nº00
MICHELE LAMY
PARIS
2020
Interview with muse and irresistible artist.
/ to be published in THE PUBLISHERS
/ text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº46
PARISPHOTO
GRAND PALAIS
2019
PARISPHOTO
ParisPhoto, the biggest photo fair in Europe held each November at the Grand Palais, returns with its 23rd edition.
/ published at THE PUBLISHERS
/ ParisPhoto 2019, Paris
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº45
FRIEZE WEEK
FRIEZE LONDON
2019
FREIEZE LONDON & FRIEZE MASTERS
The most significant contemporary art galleries shown at FRIEZE LONDON and FRIEZE MASTERS 2019. Report from Regent’s Park.
/ published in ARTLYST
/ Somerset House, London
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº43
PHOTO
LONDON
2019
THE FIRST-TIMERS
The 5th edition of PhotoLondon at Somerset House with 24 countries, 114 galleries, and over 42.000 visitors in four days.
/ published in ARTLYST
/ Somerset House, London
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº42
STANLEY
KUBRICK
2019
STANLEY KUBRICK X DESIGN MUSEUM
One of the greatest retrospectives on Kubrick's work “Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition” opens at the Design Museum, London.
/ published in ARTLYST
/ Design Museum, London
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº41
SHEN WEI
AT FLOWERS
2019
THE EROCTIC GARDEN OF SHEN WEI
Shen Wei's first solo exhibition in the UK at Flowers Gallery, London.
/ published in ARTLYST
/ Flowers Gallery, London
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº40
VASARELY
RETROSPECTIVE
2019
VASARELY. SHARING FORMS
“Vasarely. Sharing Forms” a homage to Op Art and Victor Vasarely at Centre Pompidou, Paris.
/ published in ARTLYST
/ Centre Pompidou, Paris
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº39
GATES
PALAIS DE TOKYO
2019
AMALGAM
The latest installation of Theaster Gates “Amalgam” opens at Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
/ published in ARTLYST
/ Palais de Tokyo, Paris
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº38
OTHONIEL
PERROTIN
2019
ORACLES
Jean-Michel Othoniel’s latest work “Oracles”, a set of sculptures made out of coloured glass and metal bricks at Galerie Perrotin, Paris
/ published in ARTLYST
/ Galerie Perrotin, Paris
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº37
VIK MUNIZ
RUINART
2019
SHARED ROOTS
“Shared Roots” by Brazilian artist, photographer Vik Muniz at Palais Brongniart, Paris by Maison Runart.
/ published in ARTLYST
/ Masion Ruinart Paris
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº36
BOSCO SODI
ATLANTES
2019
ATLANTES
Blain Southern London, Paul Kasmin Gallery New York and Galería Hilario Galguera in Mexico present an amazing site-specific installation by Bosco Sodi in Casa Wabi.
/ published in THE PUBLISHERS
/ Blain Southern London
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº35
BOSCO SODI
BLAIN SOUTHERN
2019
BRICK BY BRICK
Following Bosco Sodi's successful exhibition “Yügen” in 2016, three years later he returns to Blain Southern with "Heavens and the Earth”.
Interview with Bosco Sodi.
/ published in ARTLYST
/ Blain Southern London
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº34
BILL VIOLA &
MICHELANGELO
2019
LIFE, DEATH, REBIRTH
Is Viola’s art dated, dead in the water or he is one of the most famous video artists of our time?
/ published in ARTLYST
/ Royal Academy of Arts, London
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº33
UNIT LONDON
PHILIP COLBERT
2019
JOHNNY BURT & JOE KENNEDY OF UNIT AND PHILIP COLBERT AT SAATCHI
THE RINGMASTERS
Who’s behind Unit London? Where does this highly inspirational energy come from?
Interview with Joe Kennedy.
/ published in ARTLYST
/ Saatchi Gallery, London
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº32
PARISPHOTO
GRAND PALAIS
2018
PARISPHOTO
ParisPhoto, the biggest photo fair in Europe held each November at the Grand Palais, returns with its 22nd edition.
/ published in ARTLYST
/ ParisPhoto, Paris
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº31
FRIEZE WEEK
FRIEZE LONDON
2018
FRIEZE WEEK & FRIEZE ART FAIR
Reporting from the Art Fair and throughout Frieze Week highlighting dozens of art galleries including Thaddaeus Ropac, Stuart Shave, Kamel Mennour, Castelli New York.
/ published in BALKON
/ Freeze, London
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº30
FRIEZE LONDON
FRIEZE MASTERS
2018
THE SHREDDED ART WORD
The 10 most significant galleries at FRIEZE London and FRIEZE Masters. Report from Regent’s Park.
/ published in ARTLYST
/ Freeze, London
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº29
MIRO / SAATCHI
UNIT LONDON
2018
NO TIME FOR HIBERNATION
Three major London galleries, Victoria Miro, Saatchi Gallery and Unit London were investigated on their latest exhibitions.
/ published in BALKON
/ Victoria Miro, Saatchi Gallery, Unit, London
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº28
AMAR GALLERY
LONDON
2018
FROM THE FIFTIES BOYS’ CLUB TO ANGEL
Interview with Amar Singh of Amar Gallery London. His latest exhibition "Hiding in plain sight" celebrates female abstract expressionists of 1950s and 60s New York.
/ published in ARTLYST
/ Amar Gallery, London
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº27
CINDY SHERMAN
LONDON
2018
THE NEARLY IDENTICAL STARS
Sherman has long been known for her love of dressing up, inventing new characters, limitless forms that illuminate the nature of subjectivity and sexuality.
/ published in ARTLYST
/ Sprüth Magers Gallery, London
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº26
SPRÜTH MAGERS
LONDON
2018
THE FACE YOU DESERVE
Cindy Sherman, dressing up, inventing new characters in limitless forms and sexuality.
/ published in BALKON
/ Sprüth Magers Gallery, London
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº25
MASTERPIECE
LONDON
2018
GOLF CAR TO MORTALITY
The 9th edition of Masterpiece at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, offered an unparalleled opportunity for networking, champagne, and connoisseurship. A private walk with Paul Freud.
/ published in ARTLYST
/ Masterpiece, London
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº24
PHOTOLONDON
SOMERSET HOUSE
2018
PAPER CLOUDS & NUDITY
The core of PhotoLondon at Somerset House was based on sensual shapes, landscapes, still lives, abstract objects and nudity.
/ published in ARTLYST
/ PhotoLondon, Somerset House, London
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº23
HÄNDEL'S
RINALDO
2018
WITCHCRAFT AT THE BARBICAN
Händel's Rinaldo, a flamboyant drama of love, witchcraft and lot of fearless furies, was staged with a hypnotic cast including the young Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński.
/ published in ARTLYST
/ Barbican Art Centre, London
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº22
KATHARINA GROSSE
2018
KALEIDOSCOPIC MATTER AND ENERGY
The Gagosian gallery London presented a monumental and breathtaking installation of Katharina Grosse's bright, sprayed-on, acrylic, large-scale paintings.
/ published in ARTLYST
/ Gagosian Gallery, London
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº21
FESTIVAL D'HYÈRES
2018
UNDER THE SPELL OF THE NOAILLES
Investigating the 33rd International Festival of Fashion, Photography and Accessory Design in Hyères, in the South of France with Jean-Pierre Blanc, Haider Ackermann and Tilda Swinton.
/ published in ARTLYST
/ Villa Noailles, Hyères, France
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº20
JOAN JONAS
TATE MODERN
2018
PORTRAYALS OF FEMALE IDENTITY
How do we get through confusion and clutter from paper-mâché animal heads to Tilda Swinton’s dead fish?
Video installations by the celbrated American performance artists, Joan Jonas.
/ published in ARTLYST
/ Tate Modern, London
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº19
GENTA ISHIZUKA
ERSKINE HALL
2018
ORGANIC URUSHI
Genta Ishizuka's work, exhibited at Erskine Hall & Coe Gallery, was deeply inspired by the sculptural technique used in 7th to 8th Century Japan, applying the Urushi lacquering technic that covers the entire sculpture like a second skin.
/ published in ARTLYST
/ Erskine Hall & Coe Gallery, London
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº18
MCQUEEN/CARPENTERS/KABAKOV
2018
MCQUEEN at SARABANDE FOUNDATION
ILYA & EMILIA KABAKOV at TATE MODERN CARPENTERS WORKSHOP in LONDON
It is a story about three remarkable places in London, which share nothing in common, but they are unique and revolutionary in their own way.
/ published in ARTLYST
/ Tate Modern, Sarabande Foundation, Carpenters Workshop, London
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº17
EDDIE PEAKE
WHITE CUBE
2018
COMPULSIVE OBSESSION
Eddie Peake is anything but a conventional artist, he is a footballer, a musician, a dancer, a graffiti guy covered with spray-paint, a ferocious attention seeker, but also someone cramped with shyness and insecurity.
/ published in ARTLYST
/ White Cube Bermondsey, London
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº16
ART SELECTION
BUDAPEST
2018
EMERGING ARTISTS FROM BUDAPEST
Revisiting contemporary art galleries in Budapest and prompting a rhetorical question: "Could Hungary still retake its place on the art-map of Europe?"
/ published in ARTLYST
/ TOBE Gallery, Trafo, Trapez Gallery, Esernyos Gallery, Budapest
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº15
PARISPHOTO
GRAND PALAIS
2017
EBBS AND FLOWS
A fine selection of the 180 international galleries and publishers presented at the 21th ParisPhoto with the Fair’s Guest of Honour, Karl Lagerfeld, also Patti Smith, Sophie Calle, David Lynch, Martin Parr and Catharine Clark from San Francisco.
/ published in ARTLYST
/ ParisPhoto, Le Grand Palais, Paris
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº14
ART SELECTION
PARIS
2017
BLACK FLAGS, BEARS AND REFLECTIONS
Parallel with the 44th edition of FIAC at the Grand Palais, presenting a handful of art exhibitions throughout Paris.
William Forsythe at the Gagosian, MOMA at the Fondation Louis Vuitton.
/ published in ARTLYST
/ Gagosian, Le Bourget, Carpenters Workshop, Centre Pompidou, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Musée Rodin, Paris International Art Fair, L'Institut du Monde Arabe, Studio des Acacias, Paris
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº13
FRIEZE LONDON
FRIEZE MASTERS
2017
UNMISTAKABLE ART / UNCERTAIN TIMES
The 15th edition of FRIEZE London and FRIEZE Masters brought more than 160 international galleries together in Regent’s Park and the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair at Somerset House.
/ published in ARTLYST
/ Freeze, London
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº12
PARISPHOTO
GRAND PALAIS
2016
DIARY
The 20th edition of ParisPhoto was a drastically transformed perception of the medium in an age when we are saturated with an omnivorous barrage of distracting and singular imagery.
/ published in ARTLYST
/ ParisPhoto, Le Grand Palais, Paris
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº11
IBEY
PARIS
2015
Interview with French-Cuban musical duo, LISA-KAINDE DIAZ and NAOMI ZAYAS DIAZ of IBEY.
"IBEYI means twins. Our recording shows a strong and spiritual connection to our Yoruba roots, as we named our themes and titles"
/ published in UBIKWIST
/ photo © courtesy of Jean-Baptiste Mondino
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº10
KARL MESZLÉNYI
BUDAPEST
2015
Interview with Hungarian abstract-expressionist artist KARL MESZLÉNYI.
“The essence of my work is the material, based on painstaking research and experiments. I love to be challenged. I am like a living laboratory, fuming with ideas, blasting with energy".
/ published in UBIKWIST
/ photo © courtesy of Jonás Mátyássy
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
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VALENCIA JAMES
BUDAPEST
2015
Interview with Barbados-born contemporary dancer VALENCIA JAMES and co-dancer NELSON REGUERA from Havanna/Paris.
“I see myself as a perpetual student of performance and choreography".
/ published in UBIKWIST
/ photo © courtesy of Attila Glazer
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
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JEROME SOIMAUD
MIAMI
2015
Interview with French artist JEROME SOIMAUD.
"When 9 years ago I moved to Miami, Paris was still a fantastic place, multi-cultural, however eventually I was happy to leave because the Paris of my childhood no longer existed".
/ published in UBIKWIST
/ photo © courtesy of Jerome Soimaud
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
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GABOR MAGYARI
PARIS
2005
Interview with Hungarian industrial designer GABOR MAGYARI.
During his university studies he creates Mag-Netic, the prototype of a flying car, and is subsiquently invited at age of 23 to join the design studio at Renaut Paris .
/ published in BLAST
/ photo © courtesy of Studio Magyari
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
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ERIC VAN HOVE
PARIS
2004
Interview with artist ERIC VAN HOVE.
"Tentateur à 29 ans, il est un homme simple naturellement complexe, artiste, sculpteur, homéride, poète, écriveur, réservé, anachorète, pantagruéliste, amanuensis, philosophe, négateur, épicurien, réservé, menteur, séducteur et hédoniste".
/ published in BLAST
/ photo © courtesy of Eric van Hove
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA
nº1
YONDERBOI
PARIS
2003
Interview with Hungarian musician YONDERBOI.
"At age 21, he releases his first album Splendid Isolation and takes the music industry by surprise. Paris is celebrating his electro-Hungarian music".
/ published in BLAST
/ photo © courtesy of Yonderboi
/ cover + text © courtesy of ZOLTAN+MEDIA