Art Adventures with Custorian

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Stories from Artists, Collectors & Curators. Brought to you by Custorian tours: Adventures into the worlds of artists and their creations. Follow along with guests as they discuss and attend 3D exhibitions shared in the show notes.

  1. 05/27/2021

    #07 Artist: Douglas Cantor

    Speaking with Artist Douglas Cantor. Join us in this episode while we visit the following 3D captures: 3D Capture: Douglas Cantor: ‘Horses and nudies’ show.custorian.com/2020-guts-2020ffs-douglascantor 3D Capture: Ruby Dickson “Working as one intended” show.custorian.com/2020-guts-2020ffs-rubydickson About this episode In this episode I meet with Artist and painter Douglas Cantor to discuss his exhibition “Horses and Nudies” Follow the links included to visit the shows along with us! Douglas Cantor was born in Puerto Bojaca in Columbia in 1989 but since 2012 he has lived his life as an artist through London, Glasgow and Berlin. Douglas’s paintings are often large romantic, richly coloured works with rearing horses and strong naked profiles. They share strong traits from how he chooses to identify with his Latin American heritage but also share tidbits from his life as he experiences it in being an immigrant in the UK. You will hear us attend Douglas’s exhibition “Horses and Nudies” as it is now available on Custorian. His exhibition was one of thirteen in a marathon of shows held as a collaboration between GUTS gallery and Soft Punk magazine during the final thirteen weeks of 2020. In discussion we consider his life in the lead up of this solo show, how his ideas take shape on each canvas and learn a little of the background thinking in how these works came into being. If you are still with us after that, you can hear Douglas’s impressions of us attending another exhibition by Ruby Dickson who displayed in the same physical space just a few weeks before. Please follow along and see what we see by visiting 3D captures of all the exhibitions we discuss, links to all these exhibitions are in the show notes, now let’s hear our chat. Available uncensored on Soundcloud:  https://soundcloud.com/user-18437174/07-artist-douglas-cantor-uncensored

    55 min
  2. 04/29/2021

    #05 Artist Olivia Sterling

    Chatting with Artist Olivia Sterling! Hear us visit the following 3D captures: 3D Capture: Olivia Sterling’s - It Clings like a leech https://show.custorian.com/2020-guts-2020ffs-oliviasterling 3D Capture: Olivia Sterling’s - Studio https://show.custorian.com/2021-guts-oliviasterling-studio After Olivia and I visit her exhibitions you can also hear her impressions of one of her peers exhibitions exhibited in the same space, a few weeks before. Listen along as Olivia gives her impressions of Elsa Rouy’s Cheeky sex nymphs in her show Plastic doesn’t sweat: 3D Capture: Elsa Rouy - Plastic doesn’t sweat https://show.custorian.com/2020-2020ffs-elsarouy About this Episode In this episode, Olivia Sterling and I visit and discuss her exhibition “It clings like a leech” We also visit her awesome studio in the epic, ROTUNDUS home of the former BBC Social Club. Follow the 3D Capture links included to visit the shows along with us! Born in Peterborough in 1996 and graduating from the RCA in 2020, Olivia Sterling has carved out a distinctive niche in using paint to address questions of blackness and whiteness in twenty-first century Britain. Colour, in her work, is both hedonism and neurosis. Her Day-Glo pigments and swooping, comic-book outlines are a raucous pleasure for the eyes; yet her signature ‘tagging’ of colour blocks with letters and numbers points to the obsessive compartmentalisation of skin tones and identities, a minefield of labels that invokes the shadow of racialised discourse. The use of everyday settings and subjects – which seem to spill over the edges of Sterling’s zoomed-in frames – points to the subtle ways in which even anodyne objects and scenes are encoded with structures of othering and difference, while stressing the fact that this is a drama that continues beyond the canvas. Olivia’s show “It clings like a leech” is now available on Custorian. Her exhibition was one of thirteen shown as a collaboration between GUTS gallery and Soft Punk magazine. During the final thirteen weeks of 2020, Olivia’s show was displayed in the arch behind Haggerston station in London. This episode is censored, an un-beeped version is available on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-18437174/05-art-adventures-olivia-sterling-uncensored.?

    50 min

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Stories from Artists, Collectors & Curators. Brought to you by Custorian tours: Adventures into the worlds of artists and their creations. Follow along with guests as they discuss and attend 3D exhibitions shared in the show notes.