Voices On Art - The VAN HORN Gallery Podcast | hosted by Daniela Steinfeld Daniela Steinfeld

Janis Provisor is a New Yorker, residing between Connecticut and New York City.

Janis is an accomplished artist with a vast career in the arts, showing in galleries all over the world as well as having her work in many museum collections. Janis will be having a solo-presentation of her work with Halsey McKay at the Independent 2024.

Now in her seventies Janis gathered a lot of experience in art and life and shares her wisdom in our talk.

Being very young she was taken to Museums by Family members. She already felt then she wanted to be an artist, not knowing at all what that was about. She studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, right after the Summer of Love, receiving her MFA in 1971. Although the 70s were a great time for experimenting and going new ways in the arts
and society, it was not a great time for women resp. women artists. Janis reflects on how the status of women has changed in the past decades and how much there is still to do.

In 1989, along with her husband and son, she left New York for an adventure in China and Hong Kong, they ended up staying for nine years, running their own company Fort Street Studios in China in the 1990s, designing, manufacturing, and selling hand-knotted silk
carpets. Through all these years she constantly developed and experimented, which helped her finding her individual voice as artist and woman.

Janis often starts her paintings with writing and putting her thoughts, her feelings out on the canvas. In the process of painting those words often get obscured and a physical and emotional process starts, in which Janis let's loose and allows her body to paint the way it needs to. Being jewish, she now processes and expresses her torn feelings
about the war and the humanitarian crisis in the near east.

For the presentation at the Independent she is now creating a new body of work, which will be as free and open as possible, while still being very concentrated and essential to fit the format of a fair presentation.



41 min., recorded February 21, 2024, language english



https://www.independenthq.com/

artist website:

https://www.janisprovisorstudio.com/

artist history:

https://fortstreetstudio.com/founders/

https://www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9788891829627/

Gallery:

https://www.halseymckay.com/artists/janis-provisor

Your host:

https://van-horn.net

Instagram:

@independent_hq

@janisprovisor

@halseymckaygallery

@voicesonart

@van_horn_duesseldorf



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Vian Sora b. 1976 in Baghdad, Iraq, is an iraqi-american painter, living and working in Louisville, Kentucky.
Growing up in Baghdad in a kurdish arab family coming from academia and culture, the great and rich Mesopotamian foundation of her cultural heritage is fundamental to her. Her life was enriched by both cultures as well as threatened by the persecution her family experienced. War, violence and death were part of those years, as was the beauty and sublimity her parents tried to install in her life through exposure to culture and art.
Life and death were always on the same plate.

One can't approach Vian's work and her narrative without touching upon her background, which informed
her life and now is also lending itself as backdrop of the work. She uses herself, the bodily, emotional and
psychological experiences she had to go through to transform the hurt and pain into an utterly positive and
energetic lust for life, which is brought into the world through her body and flows into her paintings. Her aim
is to bring beauty and richness out of the horrific past.

Vian talks her migration through many countries, her studies (including Computer Science), her painterly
process, her obsession with color, form, texture, painting and her love for different cultures. She opens
herself up to a cornucopia of influences, landscapes, experiences, filtering it all through the microcosmos of
every cell in her body and releasing it onto the canvas. Her deep color sense, the patterns she finds are beautiful with a
very sophisticated sense of composition, however frequently a dark form lurks in the shadows.

Vian also discusses her solo presentation with David Nolan Gallery at the Independent, which she intends to be
an immersive experience for the viewer – a booth with large scale, vibrant paintings one can't only look
upon, but has to fully encounter.

Recorded February 20, 2024, 32 min., language english

https://www.independenthq.com/
artists website and instagram:
https://www.viansora.com/
https://www.instagram.com/viansora/
interview with Vian Sora:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVyo_c8-dJc&t=847s
gallery website:
https://www.davidnolangallery.com/artists/vian-sora
your host:
https://van-horn.net/podcast/

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This is a special episode created in collaboration with Independent NYC.
Anton Svyatsky (b. 1991, Moscow) is an American philosopher, curator, artist studio manager and gallery owner based in NYC. He has worked on, among others, parallel program exhibitions for different Biennials and has organized exhibitions at galleries in Europe and the US. He has been a guest lecturer at diverse Universities and is the studio director of the art collective AES+F.

Anton founded his gallery „Management“ in 2021 partly as reaction on the Covid crisis, partly because his
credentials didn't fit into other galleries job descriptions and partly because his threshold for taking risks has always been exceptionally low. Having the mind of a thinker, being a studied philosopher, he nevertheless turned out to be a self-taught maker and entrepreneur, first in his own design studio as well as now in
his gallery.

Anton reflects on him growing up as the son of a famous artist, dropping out of high school, studying philosophy and, after wearing many hats, „wiggling“ his way into the art world. He believes in serendipity and that doors open for somebody taking risks while at the same time having a plan. Quoting Hannibal
Smith of the A-Team, Anton says: „ I love it when a plan comes together“. Still, he doesn't take the easy road, he is interested in complicating things, playing the devils advocate and therefore chooses artists purely relying on his own taste and unique reaction to their work. Artists whose voices have the potential of becoming loud and being heard. He says: „You want to be part of something great and a gallery is a legitimate way of doing it.“

In our conversation, Anton covers the entire gamut of the art world, leaving us with smart reflections on art, the general gallery model, the voice of artists, the importance of art fairs and their intertwined relations.

At the Independent Art Fair „Management“ will show a solo presentation by Anastasia Komar, on which Anton reflects in depth. He explains the scientific background of her work, it's connections with something like the „divine“, how the works are executed and mentions their eerie beauty.

Anastasia's practice is highly original in both subject matter and execution. It looks at a field that is impenetrable to the layman and translates it into the realm of visceral visual communication that literally halts people in their tracks. With progress toward "divine powers" accelerating at an ever-increasing pace, from genetic modification to artificial intelligence, it is important to occasionally pause and ponder its implications. For Independent, Anastasia is preparing her most ambitious work to date which aims at nothing less than to ensnare the public and lead them to these urgent reflections.

Recorded January 23, 2024, 33 min., language english

Links:https://management.nyc/
https://www.independenthq.com/
https://van-horn.net/podcast/

Lingzhi Zhuang is a chinese exhibition maker, project space and gallery owner based in Shanghai.
Her gallery LINSEED was established in 2022, focusing on a younger generation of asian and international artists.
Having studied at Goldsmith's in London, Lingzhi received the call to take a post at Pearl Lam Galleries, one of the most acclaimed galleries in Asia, asking her to move to Shanghai. After several other stations Lingzhi decided during Covid to open her own space and ultimately her gallery LINSEED in 2022. The gallery highlights emerging artists and
fuses asian and western approaches.
Lingzhi relates the beginnings of her project space, the support she received to realize her vision and how she founded her gallery LINSEED in challenging times.
She reflects a new generation in China, to which she herself belongs to. Young people leading nomadic lifes, often going abroad to study in the UK, the US or elsewhere and bringing back those manifold influences to their home country.
She herself attaches great importance on friendship, trust and community. Although having learned her skills in galleries with a more corporate background, she believes in a new way of working together, while still not losing view of the business side of things.
Lingzhi also talks about the solo presentation of Asami SHOJI (b.1988, Japan) which LINSEED will show at Independent New York 2024. It will be featuring Shoji's latest series of daily and gestural paintings
that encapsulate the passing of time and life. Each painting in this series, created in a continuous sequence, represents a specific day or moment, reflecting the artist's state and her environment.
Recorded January 29, 2024, 32 min., language english
Links:
https://www.linseedprojects.space/https://www.independenthq.com/
https://van-horn.net/podcast/

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Koen Delaere, b. 1970 Brugges, Belgium is an artist, painter and professor. He lives and works in Tilburg, Netherlands.

For Delaere the body, it‘s unique expressions and sensitivities, the conditions under which it creates etc. are crucial in creating his bold material paintings.

Koen talks his childhood, being a kind of outsider, his need to create and invent from an early age on and his artistic roots in the world of music and punk.

His paintings are made from a realm of physical experience, of direct contact with and reactions on the nature of specific materials (like paint) and an almost performative element of execution.

His exhibition „Just Kids“, with Elisabeth Vary, is on view at VAN HORN, Düsseldorf through March 9, 2024.

Recorded January 10, 2024, 43 min., language english

https://van-horn.net/current-exhibition/

Instagram:

@koendelaere @voicesonart @van_horn_duesseldorf

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A very happy new year and welcome to the first episode of 2024, which at the same time is the last episode of 2023, as it was recorded November 29, 2023.
My guest Tobias Zielony is an artist, photographer, filmmaker, writer and Professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. Tobias relates his background and upbringing in the former industrial area of the Ruhrgebiet, the inheriting of his first camera from his older brother and the different stations of his studies - from his beginnings at one of the best schools for documentary photography in Wales in the UK to studying with Timm Rautert at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig.
Tobias talks his approach towards his artistic projects, building trust with his protagonists and the way he conducts his research. He addresses the small – and big – changes that happened within the media of photography and image making itself during the last decades and reflects this framework and his working within it from the 1990ies to the present day and beyond.
This Episode was recorded on 29 November, 2023 and published on 2 January 2024. 44 min, language english.
Portrait photo by Halina Kliem.
Shownotes:
https://van-horn.net/https://kow-berlin.com/artists/tobias-zielonyhttps://liarumma.com/artists/tobias-zielonyhttps://marta-herford.de/en/ausstellungen/dark-data/https://www.deutscheboersephotographyfoundation.org/en/collect/artists/tobias-zielony.php

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