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Olafur Eliasson: a quasi political interview

by Paul Laster

Olafur Eliasson: "I’m interested in how culture actually creates the world". We sat down with the artist to discuss about...

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‘Color has many amazing abilities, one is that it affects your ability to feel’ Katharina Grosse (an interview)

by Paul Laster

Celebrated for her painterly projects in major museums and international biennials, Katharina Grosse is primarily known in New York for...

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Who is Lavinia Calza? (an interview)

by Zihan Kassam

Kenya based art agent and collector Lavinia Calza sets down with Conceptual Fine Arts to talk about present and future...

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Frank Goddio, the deepest living archaeologist (an interview)

by Stefano Pirovano

Frank Goddio talks about his extraordinary discoveries and the exhibition presenting them at the European audience. And reveals some visionary...

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Elizabeth Peyton: ‘help me feel my feelings’ (an interview)

by Paul Laster

Painter Elizabeth Peyton discusses with CFA her painting and how she needs to portrait other people to understand herself.

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Kerry James Marshall: ‘I love art thanks to Leonardo da Vinci’ (an interview)

by Paul Laster

Growing up in Los Angeles during the turbulent times of racial unrest in the 1960s and settling in Chicago in...

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Mark Leckey: “technology essentially makes you believe in magic” (an interview)

by Paul Laster

A British artist who works in a variety of mediums, Mark Leckey’s first interests were music and technology and much...

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That’s how they are doing it in Finland (an interview with Leevi Haapala)

by Maria do Carmo de Pontes

Kiasma‘s director since June 2015, Leevi Haapala knows the vibrant Finnish contemporary art scene and its near future like few others....

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An interview with Rashid Johnson: “I was more African before going to Africa”

by Paul Laster

The youngest artist in the Studio Museum in Harlem’s seminal 2001 exhibition “Freestyle,” Rashid Johnson embraced curator Thelma Golden’s controversial...

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Hiltiland, where dreams come true

by Stefano Pirovano

President of Hilti Art Foundation Michael Hilti sits down with CFA to discuss about the strategy behind his family's extraordinary...

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Collector Luiz Augusto Teixeira de Freitas: “Too much art is produced just to feed the market”

by Stefano Pirovano

We met Brazilian lawyer and art collector Luiz Augusto Teixeira de Freitas a few weeks ago in Lisbon, where CFA...

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Anna Conway and how to switch on the painting’s inner light

by Stefano Pirovano

Our entry question for Anna Conway is about the weather. We are talking with her via Skype, in occasion of...

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A 3D dialogue between host Alfredo Aceto, curator Julie Boukobza and CFA’s lateral thinking

by Stefano Pirovano

We met Alfredo Aceto and Julie Boukobza at the dinner party celebrating the artist’s current solo show at Bugada &...

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Richard Feigen: a seminal interview

by Stefano Pirovano

Master art gallery owner Richard Feigen sat down with us to talk about the future of the old masters and...

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”Your work doesn’t look that Scandinavian at all”: an interview with Emanuel Röhss

by Stamatia Dimitrakopoulos

The first time we saw the work of Emanuel Röhss was online, after cruising his immaculate website. Intrigued by his...

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Adriano Pedrosa and the the MASP: an interview

by Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes

Adriano Pedrosa discuss with CFA his quest to make the MASP multiple, diverse and plural museum. And how to bring...

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This is my truth about Chinese art: an interview with Zhu Jinshi (with a three-years delay)

by Stefano Pirovano

In Summer of 2012 we travelled around China trying to get a firsthand experience of what at that time was...

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Giuseppe Iannaccone: comfortably unaffected by trends (an interview)

by Stefano Pirovano

One of the best qualities of Giuseppe Iannaccone, lawyer and experienced art collector, is certainly his cultural awareness. Mr. Iannaccone perfectly...

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I love Aby Warburg’s ideas of re-establishing pathos: an interview with Amie Dicke

by Francesca Verga

Artist Amie Dicke talks about iconography in art, religion and advertisement at her studio in Amsterdam, located in a former...

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Restorer Umberto Senserini reveals outcome of Piero della Francesca’ Resurrection cleaning

by Antonio Carnevale

The “Resurrection”, the mural painting preserved in the Museo Civico of Sansepolcro, is one of Piero della Francesca’s masterpieces. Giorgio...

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