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>> Mark Khaisman
“My Tape Art is a conversation with light.“
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>>> Please tell us
your professional education and career ... Mark Khaisman, born in Kiev, Ukraine. I studied art and architecture in
Moscow Architectural Institute. Now I live and work in Philadelphia,
USA. I worked as an architect, interior architect, stained glass
designer, art director in animation and artist. Never worked at the Post
Office.
>>> What’s your
style ... My works are large archetypal representational
images, made from layer upon layer of translucent
packing tape, applied to clear Plexiglas and placed in front of a light box to
give the image shadow and depth.
>>> Tapeart is ... ... art as any other type of art. Some
artists are using paint, some stone, some sharks or skulls and diamonds; I
use tape. My Tape Art is a conversation with
light. I started it like a traditional stained glass artist, but with tape: I
found I could continue my conversation with light, but in a more
expedient, sketch like manner. >>> How do you feel about an ever-growing interest and commercial exploitation of street art ?
The city as a canvas is a great and
ambitious concept. I think that street art is a new
incarnation of art, which is working against the system and I hope that it will not
become a new art establishment any time soon to turn into the next
cliché. It’s always a temptation: artists want to be rebels, but
successful and established rebels. >>> A project you love to remember ...
I was given two large walls in the old
factory building converted into an art center to do an installation. I
rendered 12 chairs from the Louis XV epoch in a very large scale.
It was fun to do and the space was really converted
into something else. >>> Do you see your art as globally understandable ?
Judging by the response I’m getting
from all over the world it is universal. I myself am a person with no country;
maybe that’s why I am interested in universal subjects and a classic,
representational style. My material is pretty common too. >>> Which aspect of your work is overlooked ?The price tag. >>> What are you up to next ?
I am revisiting my cinema past right
now, as I am working on a video project, animating my film noir tape stills and inserting
them back into the movie from which they
were borrowed. >>> Last remarks ?Thanks for your interest. |
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