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izzy@plastermagazine.com The rise of ‘ugly’ art: “I think the internet has deeply, spiritually poisoned us”
From zombie clubbers to deep-fried portraits of celebs and airbrushed toilet paper, Izzy Bilkus dives into the rising trend of tasteless art
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God in the machine: decoding the art of Divine Machinery
Divine Machinery is an eerie aesthetic of malfunction and meaning lost in the feed. Izzy Bilkus explores how the social media trend has been seeping into contemporary art
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What’s it like to live in an art gallery?
“People are weirded out by the fact we live here.” Izzy Bilkus speaks to Final Hot Desert founders Marina Moro and Ben Anderson who run a gallery from their flat
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You can’t juice a dry fruit: Sylvie Fleury curates Matisse
Izzy Bilkus finds pleasure and pain in an unusual artist pairing at Luxembourg + Co.
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Tau Lewis: “Sometimes dark places are perfect”
Ahead of her new solo show at Sadie Coles HQ, Tau Lewis talks thrifting, mythology and struggling with goodbyes
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Spiralling with Alexandra Metcalf
The artist’s latest exhibition is a monument to madness, nostalgia and rebellious girlhood
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Lorena Lohr and the motel myth
Ahead of a new exhibition ‘Motel Nudes’, Lorena Lohr talks cowboys, tombstone portraits and the ineffable pull of the road
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Li Hei Di: “I become more insane at night – I think everyone does”
Repressed desire, bad fashion choices and “living in eternal darkness”: Izzy Bilkus speaks with painter Li Hei Di ahead of their first UK solo show
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Sergey Kononov doesn’t like to be rushed
The Ukrainian painter’s first UK solo show is a monument to friends and lovers
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Emma Prempeh wants you to feel what you can’t touch
Prempeh’s paintings are troves of nostalgia, identity and matriarchal strength, as Izzy Bilkus finds when she visits the artist’s studio for Plaster’s guest editorship of Catalogue Magazine Issue 7.0
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Raphaela Simon’s phantoms of pain
In recent times, the German artist’s work has taken a darker turn
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Is print still dead? Brooklyn Museum zines show says no
‘Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines’ celebrates the political, niche and sometimes freaky history of artist-created zines
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How punk was pictured by photographer Caroline Coon
A new exhibition at the Centre for British Photography shows how the ‘godmother of punk’ pictured the scene, while questioning the gender politics of its pioneers
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Get over tit! New show busts the great boob taboo
A new group show at Kunsthalle Wien aims to normalise the naked breast while highlighting queer and feminist critiques
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Orfeo Tagiuri on etching love’s delicate dance
The artist’s latest series memorialises the tender beginnings of a budding romance
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Paul Hameline’s Happy Accidents: “The world is kind of fucked, kind of messy. (So are we, no?)”
For his first curated show, Paul Hameline has put together ‘Happy Accidents’ at Galerie Sultana in Paris
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