Can you tell us a bit about you? I’m a visual abstract artist painting in mixed media. My main inspiration is landscape, but I’m more interested in expressing my response to a place than creating a recognisable image. I was born in 1957 in Manchester and grew up close to the brooding Pennine hills in the northwest of England. I…
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When working on a new project, what are the first steps you take? In principal I’ll first of all explore the idea and concept for a new project on it’s values of transformation and contradiction. The process of creating a new series of work is fundamental to developing a visual language through which I can communicate the feeling of experiencing…
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Please introduce yourself to us! Pavel Wolberg (born 1966 in Leningrad, [St Petersburg,Russia] USSR) I am a visual artist and a former photojournalist living in Tel Aviv. What does art mean to you and what story do you want to tell with your art? To me art in general is an empty word and it means nothing to me, I…
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How did you find your voice as an artist? Over the years I have been experimenting with a variety of techniques, mostly painting. I evolved over time, putting my learning along the way into one comprehensive style that is mine alone. My artistic journey started in 2012 when I decided to experiment with mixed media. I worked for almost a…
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Can you describe your typical working day? It depends on what point I’m at with my work. I usually start a piece/series of work by taking photos. This means choosing the best time depending on the light – I usually prefer a bright sunny day when the shadows on buildings are strong which can be quite difficult in Britain. If…
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What is your artistic singularity ? My artistic singularity is probably my style and choice of motif. I choose a powerful, consciously confrontational pictorial language. I call my paintings loud. I have tried to create my own kind of contemporary art with a high recognition value and a lot of aesthetics. With my works I confront the viewer with boundless…
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How did you come to art, or how did art come to you? Since I was a child I have loved drawing, it was my real environment and the moments I felt the best were when I was drawing. I kept that passion, and after school, it was pretty clear to me that my studies would have been in that…
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If you had to describe yourself briefly in a couple of words, what would you say? Punk-pop artist. The music that matches with my paintings can be found on the album “Surfer Rosa“ by The Pixies. Growing up as a free spirit in East Germany, popular culture was my passion and subversion my stylistic device. The most important stages of…
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Short summary about you? I was born in Krakow, Poland in 1979 and immigrated to the USA with my mother when I was 5 years old. Istudied photography at Columbia College (1997-99), completing my BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2001.I currently reside and work in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. I am an artist,…
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What is your artistic singularity ? In all my artistic production, I do not try to represent reality, but rather the idea of reality. Images, unlike thoughts, do not impose opinions on things, but has to do with truth in the sense that it is the representation of our perceptions on a pure level. When I shoot, I focus my…
