Izzy Bilkus

London

Editorial Assistant at Plaster Magazine

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In conversation with Maurizio Cattelan’s conscience

1 week 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 week 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...
Plaster Shoots: Nora Turato at the ICA

2 weeks ago | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus |Colin Mullins

4 min read We sent our Plaster Shoots photographer down to the ICA to capture the opening night of ‘pool7’, the first UK solo show by Nora Turato Last night the ICA opened ‘pool7’, Nora Turato’s collection of works spanning text, video, installation and sound. The crowd was bustling and pints were flowing throughout the evening, which was soundtracked by a DJ set from Zeynep Erbay. We knew one thing was for sure: we needed to get our mitts on one of the ‘I got fucked by an Excel spreadsheet’...
Lorena Lohr and the motel myth

2 weeks ago | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus

8 min read Ahead of a new exhibition ‘Motel Nudes’, Lorena Lohr talks cowboys, tombstone portraits and the ineffable pull of the road American motels hold a captivating mythology.
A crash course in roadkill fine dining

2 weeks ago | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus

8 min read We’re not afraid to put our constitutions on the line for a story, but, as Harriet Lloyd-Smith finds, artist Petr Davydtchenko’s roadkill experience takes drive-thru dining to a new level “Get up to anything nice last night?” My dentist asks, picking at the neglected crevices between my incisors. Before he pulls out, I have a moment to consider my response. Oh, go on then. “It was quite interesting”, I say, before spitting the acid green mouthwash and any dental remnants into the...
Plaster Shoots: Soldier at Kearsey & Gold

2 weeks ago | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus

4 min read Freddi Losel-Ingham captured the crowd at the opening of ‘Black Star’, Soldier’s solo show at Kearsey & Gold. Were you papped?
Don’t knock Sheffield: “There’s a sense that everything in the arts is closing, but we are just opening up”

2 weeks ago | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus

15 min read Northern cities like Sheffield often go underestimated and underfunded in the arts, but when Matthew Holman visits his hometown, he finds a burgeoning community of artists and galleries proving that it’s not ‘grim up north’ Sheffield isn’t much known for its art. For most people who have never been, what probably comes to mind will be somewhere between dreary smoke over the long-closed steel mills and spit-and-sawdust locals where you might run into a bedraggled Jarvis Cocker...
Plaster Shoots: Søren Arildsen at The Artist Room

4 weeks ago | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus

4 min read The Plaster team captured the special opening night of Søren Arildsen’s first UK solo show at The Artist Room Last night was a special one for Danish artist Søren Arildsen, as he opened his first UK solo show, ‘In the Seams’, at The Artist Room, above Plaster HQ.
Great artworks for sale in the Plaster Store

1 month ago | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus

7 min read From intestinal candles to zombie teddies and more, discover what’s on offer at the new Plaster Store in Soho The newly minted Plaster Store in Soho has more on offer than just our merch.
Painting paranoia, LA style

1 month ago | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus |Oskar Oprey

8 min read LA and the Paranoid style seem like a perfect match, according to a new politics and conspiracy-fuelled group show in London If I ever get stuck at a dinner party with a deranged pizza-gate enthusiast, a 9/11 truther or someone concerned that the US government are funding transgender mice, I’m going to say, “Babes, don’t get me wrong, I love your paranoid style, but could you please give it a rest and pass me the salt?” The Paranoid Style in American Politics was an influential...