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Interview: Balint Zsako

A graduate of Ryerson’s Photography program, New York-based Balint Zsako has emerged as a sort of Renaissance man, using his talents in a multitude of media including painting, illustration, sculpture and collage to embed absurdity into an age-old subject — the figure. Zsako is well known for his paintings — fine, black-ink detail outlining bright [...]

By Marissa | Posted 9 09 2008 in interview | Tagged , , , , | Comments (3)

Interview: Poster Boy, NYC (Part Two)

A few weeks ago I interviewed NYC’s Poster Boy, a mash-up artist who uses the subway system as his medium and gallery space. After admitting to functioning as several different personas in the art world and citing Cindy Sherman as one of his influences, I was interested in learning more about how his economic/political experiences [...]

By Marissa | Posted 23 06 2008 in interview | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Interview: Poster Boy, NYC (Part One)

In a reinvented, neo-Dada sort of way, Poster Boy’s on-site mash-ups appropriate advertising imagery to create subversive posters in very public spaces — the NYC subway system. I first came across Poster Boy on Gawker, where they noted how good vandals were becoming. After FFFFOUNDing one of his images, the artist emailed me, acknowledging my [...]

By Marissa | Posted 6 06 2008 in interview | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

Mircea Cantor

My favourite piece from last year’s Nuit Blanche was Mircea Cantor’s Deeparture, at the Isabel Bader Theatre. The work is a looped film wherein a deer and a wolf are confined together in a white cube space. The tension evoked in these few short minutes is electric. When I came home (at 5 a.m., beyond [...]

By Marissa | Posted 12 05 2008 in recommendation | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)