Izzy Bilkus

London

Editorial Assistant at Plaster Magazine

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Oliver Osborne: old master, new tricks

1 week ago | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus

11 min read In an age saturated with instant images, Oliver Osborne reminds us of painting’s enduring power, across dual exhibitions in London and New York Oliver Osborne has been dubbed a ‘new Old Master’. Does this mean that he is an old soul adrift in the digital age, or that he is taking on the dedication to slow painting of the great artists of former times but with present-day subject matter? The words ‘new Old Master’ might make him sound like he makes pastiches of the past, but his...
Theodora Allen on finding poetry in ruin

2 weeks ago | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus

6 min read Ahead of a new show at Kasmin New York, Theodora Allen talks decay, regrowth and control in her Los Angeles studio Last Autumn, the artist Theodora Allen and her husband went on a self-guided tour of Ireland, climbing over fences and through cow pastures to find stone circles among the weeds. “It got me thinking about ruins,” she told me recently in her suburban Los Angeles studio, and the way she had seen them be ultimately overtaken by plantlife. “Nature is the thing that...
Introducing the Give me a break podcast

2 weeks ago | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus

2 min read Forget glossy success stories – our new podcast shares honest, unfiltered accounts from people who forged their own paths in the arts.
Plaster Shoots: Rene Matić at Arcadia Missa

2 weeks ago | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus

7 min read Turner Prize nominee Rene Matić opened their new photography show at Arcadia Missa.
The art world can’t escape influencers

2 weeks ago | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus

7 min read Influencers and influencer marketing are slowly but surely filtering into the art world. Can this be a force for good?
Painting is dead. Long live painting

3 weeks ago | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus

16 min read ‘Painting after Painting’ at S.M.A.K., Ghent, is the first attempt to survey contemporary Belgian painting since the major Luc Tuymans-curated 1999 show at M HKA in Antwerp. So no pressure.
Oliver Bak on paintings that grow in the dark

3 weeks ago | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus

7 min read Copenhagen-based artist Oliver Bak’s new works began life in the gloom of a Nordic winter It was a cold, dark winter in Copenhagen.
These artists should be on your radar

1 month ago | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus

6 min read In our monthly series, The Radar, we ask quick-fire questions to artists we’ve got our eye on.
In conversation with Maurizio Cattelan’s conscience

1 month ago | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus |Annabel Downes |Finn Constantine

9 min read Annabel Downes speaks to Francesco Bonami, speaking as Maurizio Cattelan, about Maurizio Cattelan, in conversation with himself, Francesco Bonami… got that?
This might hurt: Ed Atkins at Tate Britain

1 month ago | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus

11 min read Ed Atkins’ mid-career retrospective is a chaotic mix of digital doom and family nostalgia About halfway through Ed Atkins’ video piece Hisser (2015) a giant sinkhole opens up and swallows the protagonist. This happens shortly after the character has been shown wanking in the corner of his bedroom. And since the work consists of the same action across three separate screens, it’s triple the wanks and triple the sinkholes. What a way to go! Atkins, who is primarily known for his...