ART
interview by EMILIEN CRESPO and OLIVIER ZAHM
portrait by OLIVIER ZAHM
painting almost died in the ’90s and came back
as a powerful, fresh medium for a new generation of artists.
we asked a successful young belgian painter based
in new york about this explosive rebirth
and if there’s such a thing as a painter’s brain
OLIVIER ZAHM — There’s been a massive comeback of painting over the past decade. There are paintings everywhere today. For a moment there, it was dying…
HAROLD ANCART — Considered dead, even.
OLIVIER ZAHM — Exactly. And artists were deconstructing painting, using painting as a reference, but not actually painting as such.
HAROLD ANCART — Yeah. Like Daniel Buren with BMPT [a Paris-based art group made up of Daniel Buren, Olivier Mosset, Michel Parmentier, and Niele Toroni].
OLIVIER ZAHM — Voilà. That was some serious deconstruction, using the instrument of the painter as…