Ep: 40 Anastasiya Tarasenko - An Undeniable Truth

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02/24/20 • 94 min

Humanist, Feminist, Hedonist, Painter! Anastasiya Tarasenko asks the hard brazen questions. Her thickly painted oil on copper paintings are unique and provocative. She employs a personalized and undeniable symbolic imagery that shares a simultaneously dark and humorous, specific yet universal, reduced yet refined commentary on existence.

Her fascinating vacillation between the macro and micro world views allows her to both appreciate and reconcile the ultimate dichotomy- That to exist- Is to live in contradiction with ones self.

Listen to this candid conversation as Marshall and Sophia and Anastasiya delve into all of the juicy stuff- sex, religion, morality, capitalism, and of course art!

Check out her solo show in Boston right now until the end of February 29, 2020 at Steven Zevitas Gallery
Anastasiya Tarasenko website: Atarasenko.com
Show Notes:
Intro: 01:20
Jenny Saville: 16:16
Dicks in paintings: 25:50
Karl Marx: 39:40
Break: 44:27
Objectum Sexuality Documentary: 46:49
Bret Easton Ellis - White : 54:06
Everyday Feminism: 56:21
Is this created by a woman?: 1:08:52
Ben's notes: 1:08:52
What makes a good painting?: 1:18:18
Copper surface: 1:19:54
Problems never really end: 1:31:16

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Her fascinating vacillation between the macro and micro world views allows her to both appreciate and reconcile the ultimate dichotomy- That to exist- Is to live in contradiction with ones self.

Listen to this candid conversation as Marshall and Sophia and Anastasiya delve into all of the juicy stuff- sex, religion, morality, capitalism, and of course art!

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Previous Episode

Gallery Openings 2/6/2020

Bonus episode of interviews from gallery openings in Chelsea.
Shout out to Fredrik Björeman the developer of Podcast Chapters who's helping me bring you images with each chapter on the podcast so you can see the artwork that's discussed in the episode with links.
Episode notes:
Noho M55 Gallery "Made in Japan 2020" Curated by Arisa Itami Feb 4-15, 2020
Balla Kouyaté
Davidson Gallery "Under a Concrete Sky" by Purvis Young. Feb 6 - Mar 21 2020
Laurence Miller Gallery "Body Of Evidence" Feb 6 - Mar 21 2020
Onishi Gallery "Kaede Five Winds" Feb 4 - 11 2020
David Krut Projects "SEED" by Judi Harvest - Feb 6 - Mar 20, 2020
Judi Harvest
First Street Gallery "Semantic Net" by Kyung Tae Kim Feb 6 -Feb 22, 2020
Fergus McCaffrey Gallery "Mercer Street" Feb 6 - Apr 25, 2020
Shigeko Kubota "Duchampiana: Bicycle Wheel One, Two, and Three, 1983"
The Phenomenal Rug (not actual title) by Marcia Hafif
Greene Naftali Gallery "The Fairy Godmother" by Mathieu Malouf "Feb 6 - Mar 7, 2020
Mark Miller Gallery "Tell Them Stories" curated by Marshall Jones and Tun Myaing

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Ep: 41 Ali Banisadr - Zen and the Symphonic Time Machine

You paint an eye. Is this the eye that everybody sees? Or is this the eye that only you see, and to you it means eye. All painters hope to become visual listeners with intuitive clarity. Benisadr has a special ability to listen to his paintings in a way that not many people can. Synesthesia is a neurological ability to process data in the form of several senses at once. When Ali made the decision to make work based on sounds he heard in color, he found a sort of freedom in meshing overwhelming sensations of rhythm, energy, time, and tones into a meditative experience that felt more real than anything else he’d ever done. Join in on this conversation as Marshall, Sophia, and Ali Benisadr talk about what it means to listen to an image and trust your inner knowledge as process no matter where it takes you.
Show notes:
07:23 - Gustave Courbet painting - The Painter's Studio
17:50 - Garden of Earthly Delights
24:50 - Rumi
39:01 - 8 years war
44:54 - Barry McGee
55:13 - Synesthesia
56:59 - Kandinsky's book
1:01:08 -The last judgement
1:01:50 - Bosch & Banisadr