David Elia and Rob Goyanes in Conversation
In October 2023 writer Rob Goyanes and David Elia met up for an online conversation about art, landscape and environment and sources of inspiration from the light of Rio and the south of France to Color Field painting and Jaques Tati - and surprisingly into Weird Barbie’s house in the lates film.
David Elia trained as a designer but has in last years focused more on painting and drawing. Still there’s much that connect his paintings and his design objects, he brings a keen interest in the environment, history and social questions into his work abstracted into grids and dots. Rob Goyanes is a writer and editor from Miami, Florida, living in Los Angeles. He works as an editor for book publishers, popular and unpopular magazines, fiction writers, artists, curators, and music labels.
I recognized the special light there [in the South of France] that artists often talk about. Cezanne and Matisse always spoke about how the light was very conducive to their work, that luminous quality. The light in Rio, it’s a different kind of light, it’s stronger, yet the sky is much darker.
(Photo: Mat Smith Photography)
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.
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