Trebuchet Issue 4

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Spaceship Hype: Global Stakes Trapped in Story

Usually the truth is weirder than the hype, but in this case the truth is realer than the reality. Spaceship Earth a documentary on Biosphere 2....

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Punk Rock Fight Club: The Beat Down at CBGB

Anarchy is a return to the natural order. Might makes right. If you are a punk in the pit, you might get hit. ...

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In Sight of History

John Claridge: Being Aware. An interview with a legend on the photographing of legends...

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Decoding Future Music from Germany: Interview with Uwe Schütte

Alexei Monroe speaks to the author of the latest book to explore the art of Kraftwerk and their legacy....

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Growing an Identity

Dr. Heba El Aziz: Petri Portraits. Interview on Bio-art and the new portraiture....

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Alienated Ambiguity

Hedley Roberts: Unknown faces, arch pleasures. An interview on the harsh light of creative vision...

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Tearing the mouth of language

Nieto: Linguistic chaos. An interview with the most perverse artist in history, maybe....

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Portraits in the marketplace

Strident Sitters: Portraits in the Marketplace. Who's buying...

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Symbolic Awards

An obscure review of the 2019 BP Portrait Awards...

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Photographic Reality

Justin Hession: Caught on film. An interview with a deep event photographer on the nature of representation....

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Brains and Being

Luciana Haill: Portrait waves on the canvas of consciousness. Interview regarding brainwave mapping as portraiture....

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Saucy, Piquant, With a Faustian Aftertaste

A film for a specific taste is Phillip Humm's The Last Faust really that indigestible? A review and an entreaty for more divisive filmmaking ...

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Spiralling Intentionally Towards Figuration

David Treloar: Gestural Portraits and Simple Joy. An interview about focus and intention....

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The Finer Details of History

Massimiliano Pironti: Hyperreality. An Interview with 2019 BP Award Finalist. ...

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The Ghost Inside the Artist

Patrick Tresset: Robotic Portraits. Understanding the purpose of art by design, an interview....

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An Election Waiting to Happen with Billy Bragg

Every generation has to find its own way to deal with the problems it faces. Red Wedge was our generation and it came out of a specific set of circumstances. Other generations will find other ways....

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Conveying Connection: Charlie Schaffer

Charlie schaffer: The Emotion of Experience. Interview with BP Portrait Award 2019 Winner...

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Dreamstates and Mystery

Markus Åkesson: Finding what is hidden. New Realism and Painting...

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Banksy Withdrawn From Sotheby’s After Rival Artist Claims Ownership

The Drinker, estimated at £1m, was removed from the street by Andy Link in 2004 but later 'liberated' from his East End garden....

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Technical Innovation

Carl-Martin Sandvold: The big reveal. BP Award Nominee speaks to Trebuchet...

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No Heroic Male Master

Roxana Halls: The Figure Strikes Back...

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Henry Hussey, We Live in the Remains of the Gods

The transformative power of creative practice and its potential to remodel the artist and his audience are explored in Henry Hussey's new show. ...

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Three-sided World; Interview with Stuart Jones

Natural forces and man-made spaces preoccupy the work of artist Stuart Jones. ...

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Joker, a Film to Fall Out Over?

The most affecting film of 2019 has created debate and controversy, Trebuchet takes a closer look examining these and the underlying message at its core. ...

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William Kentridge In Praise of Shadows

The pursuit of truth should not lead us to totalitarian certainty and William Kentridge proposes that art practice is the key to holding illusion and insight in balance. ...

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Ken Nwandiogbu ‘Contemporealism’

Hyper real painting is given a contemporary African twist at The Brick Lane gallery with a show of work by Ken Nwadiogbu....

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Van Gogh, Messiah & Madman Debunked

Reflecting on the expressionism of Van Gough and thinking about what it offers to the contemporary painter Natalie Andrews takes a critical view of the mad-messiah stereotype and reminds us whats...

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Anticipating John Hoyland at the Tate

Anticipating John Hoyland at Tate, Natalie Andrews is thinking about the contemporary relevance of slow art. ...

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Unpicking The Expressive Fallacy

Can Hal Foster laugh authenticity out of existence? Revisiting 'The Expressive Fallacy', a rights of passage for artists....

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Fighting Art Forgery With Blockchain Weaponry

Originally interviewed for Trebuchet’s Art and Crime issue, dealers Thomas Crown Art have created a fascinating technological solution for the ever increasing issue of forgery in the art market....

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