World of Art and Design Fall 2023 Art Special

Fall is here and we’re highlighting artists from Scandinavia, via the South of France to Peru and Mexico. We love to hear artists talking about their work and the inspiration behind it - this newsletter is dedicated to the long read. Read the conversation between artist and designer David Elia and critic Rob Goyanes about art, landscape and environment and about sources of inspiration from the light of Rio and the South of France to Color Field painting and Jacques Tati - and weird Barbie, dots and grids.

With disarming humor and playfulness, Ingela Ihrman's work tackles questions concerning the conditions of one's own existence. By donning sculptural costumes fabricated by herself, the artist pretends to be someone else: a giant otter giving birth, a blooming giant water lily, a fig splitting in two. At the same time, the work brings forth the imbalance and the problems that have arisen ever since humans began to distinguish themselves as superior to nature. Hear the artists talking about her ongoing exhibition Frutti di Mare at Malmö Konsthall which she coincidentally envisioned as a giant pizza.

In Mexico City artist Miguel Andrade Valdez opens at the gallery Proyecto Nasal. The exhibition premiers a new series of paintings and drawings on canvas. It takes us back to the artist’s beginnings as a painter after having focused on sculpture and installations for many years, it also takes us into the body and mind.