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1 month ago | 
plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus |Laurie Barron
19 min read It’s no rest for Laurie Barron, who, fresh from the 2024 Venice Biennale, dives headfirst into a mayhem-filled Frieze New York It was unfortunate timing that my editor, Harriet, was on a well-deserved holiday and couldn’t accept Frieze Art Fair’s generous invitation to attend their 12th annual New York edition, which opened at The Shed, Hudson Yard earlier this week. So, I took one for the team and jumped on the JetBlue flight to the Big Apple. It feels like this year the UK art...
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
10magazine.com | Laurie Barron
Philippines-born Joshua Serafin is among a new generation of artists connecting performance with speculative futurism, queer subcultures and postcolonial thinking. From Berlin to Hong Kong to New York, Serafin has entranced audiences with intense, otherworldly performances that convey feelings of otherness and the freedom of nightlife, distilling complex issues with captivating movement.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
japan.10magazine.com | Laurie Barron
「現実的になれ、という言葉が嫌いだ」と、アーティストのアレクサンダー・ジェームス（ Alexander James）は口を開いた。「誰かがそう言うときって、他人じゃなくて、あくまで自分にとってそれが現実的かどうか、ということしか考えていないような気がするんだ。自分にとって現実的なことが必ずしも別の人にとって現実的であるとは限らないよね。多くの人が道の半ばで足を止めてしまうのは、自分がやりたいことをするのはおかしなことだ、と思ってしまうからなんだ。心の底からそれがやりたいのなら、とにかく走り続けるしかない」と語るジェームスは、ロンドンのウエストボーン・パークにある自身のスタジオに座っている。それから1時間にわたって、アーティストとして誰もが羨むキャリアを形成するまでの道のりや、知られざる家族史、テーラーリングへの愛着、今後のグローバルプロジェクトについて語ってくれた。...
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
plastermagazine.com | Laurie Barron
14 min read Remember Zombie Formalism?
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
plastermagazine.com | Laurie Barron
0 min read It’s Frieze Week, 2018: I’m working on the front desk of a well-known gallery in central London. It’s hosting the launch of photographer Juerger Teller’s latest book; a compendium of typically playful photographs of mega-curators Hans Ulrich Obrist and Francesco Bonami. The room is full of die-hard Teller fans carrying backpacks full of his previous publications. They’re queuing up to have them signed by the photographer, known for his raw celebrity, fashion and art photography...
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
plastermagazine.com | Laurie Barron
6 min read Let’s begin at the beginning. Tell me about your practice and interests. The key element of the practice is exploring the relationship between humans and objects. Collecting objects, and an interest in value and scarcity, have always been prominent in my life. I was raised in a family of antique dealers and collectors. As a child, I was immersed in flicking through auction catalogues and absorbing objects like bronzes, furniture and toys. There’s also an alien, otherworldly element...
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
plastermagazine.com | Laurie Barron
0 min read “No one likes a gossip!” Ugh. The phrase makes me shudder with the embarrassing school-time feeling of being told off in front of the classroom. But it’s true, being known as a rumour spreader is never a good look. The sharing of secrets can have awkward – even nasty – consequences; particularly when the full picture of a story is not clear, or there is no way to verify a scintillating piece of tittle-tattle. But what if publicly or privately sharing ‘confidential’ information is...
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
plastermagazine.com | Laurie Barron
6 min read While travelling in Moscow in 1993, Georgian artist Karlo Kacharava was violently struck over the head by a robber. The resulting complications led to his tragic death from a brain aneurysm the following year in Tbilisi – he was aged just 30. Kacharava left an unfinished painting, The Art of Darkness (1994), which is now on view, almost three decades later, at S.M.A.K. in Ghent, which is are presenting the artist’s first-ever institutional solo exhibition outside Georgia. Curated...
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus |Laurie Barron
6 min read Paul Hameline’s first curated exhibition features works by Marilou Bal, David Benedikt Wirth, William S. Burroughs, Tom Chatenet, Derek Jarman, Catherine Mulligan, Taylor Marie Prendergast and Patrick Quinn. Ahead of the opening, we spoke to Paul about the evolution of the show, the agony and ecstasy of literature and the messiness inside us all. How did ‘Happy Accidents’ come about? I’ve been meaning to curate a show for a while. I wasn’t interested in curating a viewing room...
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
plastermagazine.com | Laurie Barron |Finn Constantine
12 min read “Oh my god, it’s as if someone’s sunbleached Memphis”, Rhys Coren says about his collaborative exhibition with Sean Thomson at The Artist Room gallery. The installation has also been likened to both a Lars von Trier film and a public toilet. They sat down with Laurie Barron at Plaster HQ to talk about American modernist taste, Raymond Hains paintings and ruthless art directors. ‘Sean Thompson x Rhys Coren’ continues in The Artist Room’s outdoor project space until 10th February....
