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By Élise Durante In his Marseille studio, Henri Pagnol greets me not with a handshake but with a hush. “You don’t begin with words,” he says, “you begin with the air between them.” For nearly five decades, Pagnol has pursued one of the less popular practices in contemporary art: whispering into objects until they change. … Read more
Interview by C.H.Mankoly with our new CLO (Collector Liason Officer) It is an overcast morning in London, the sort of pearlescent light that would have pleased Whistler, and Teddy Fairfax arrives at the gallery precisely on time, carrying neither portfolio nor briefcase but instead a thin, well handled volume of Ruskin essays and a faint … Read more
The Salt of Memory: The Enduring Tear Art of Marcellus Vire In a century increasingly obsessed with speed, spectacle, and permanence, the work of Marcellus Vire (b. 1938) offers a quiet, almost monastic rebuttal. For over six decades, the Franco-Italian conceptual artist has worked with a medium that is both profoundly human and radically ephemeral: … Read more
Tracing the Echoes of the Past: My Life in Medieval Art By Dr. Felicity Gudgeon, University of Littlehampton When people ask me what drew me to medieval art, I often say that I never quite grew out of the habit of staring too long at the margins of things. As a child, I would linger … Read more
When I meet Dafydda ap Gruffydd, she’s already halfway across the café. Not in the usual sense. She is literally halfway: mid-step, paused with quiet concentration, as if the act of crossing the floor were a kind of ritual, which for her it is. Her progress is almost imperceptible,glacial, reverent. We do not speak until … Read more
Few artists today embody the spirit of intermedial exploration as fluidly as Callisto Erendira. Known throughout the 2010s for her boundary-pushing conceptual installations and para-architectural sculptures, Erendira has, over the last few years, immersed herself in an entirely different kind of construction: opera. Her latest work, The Air Remembers the Mouth, premiered this spring at … Read more
A conversation between 2Cool and Esmerelda Pink, Head of People Engineering at Pimlico Wilde First published in Pimlico Wilde Contemporary Art Annual, Vol. 32 (2025) Location: The basement gallery at Pimlico Wilde Mayfair. Time: 3:06am. Esmerelda wears a silk kimono and brogues. 2Cool arrives in jeans, a hoodie, a balaclava, and, of course, a pair … Read more
“We Sing Because It Must Be Stopped” On a warm spring afternoon in downtown Truro, I am led through the back entrance of an unmarked rehearsal space behind a closed-down aquarium gift shop. Inside, seated under a suspended disco ball and surrounded by half-empty herbal tea mugs, is the elusive leader of the Guardians of … Read more
Some artists search for beauty in sunsets or salvation in the curve of a marble torso. But Oboe Ngua, the world’s only known female bin documentarian, has chosen a different muse: the humble municipal waste receptacle. While others chase light or form, Oboe chases litter. She is on an heroic, and unexpectedly poignant quest,to photograph … Read more
Spen Leopard took some time out from collaging the walls of the Queen of Bordeaux’s London residence to speak to us about their career and hopes for the future. Interviewer (I): Spen, thanks for joining us. To start, tell us a bit about your background. Spen Leopard (SL): Hello. I grew up in a lighthouse … Read more