Ben Luke
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 1 Sep
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And I also wanted to bring up this extraordinary experience, which I had no idea until I was researching that you spent some time in England and there was an art teacher who introduced you to Michelangelo's drawings.
So you were already, as you say, by eight or nine, your piano teachers picked up on your drawings.
But you came to England and were introduced to Michelangelo through an art teacher in England.
Is that right?
And so would you say that Michelangelo is the historical artist that you continue to turn to the most today or are there others?
And one spots that, you know, it's really clear also with, for instance, the Breguent's installation where you're using multiple forms, you're using different languages, which all are interrelated and you can pull and push different angles, if you like, on your broader themes by using different media.
Yeah.
Like, for instance, there's a deep connection and, you know, thinking about Michelangelo and Basquiat, in fact, you know, is that...
deep connection between drawing and the wider works as well you know i can see the drawing and the sculpture in deep interrelation you know they're very very much related there's no hierarchy i don't think but it feels that they are completely symbiotic if you like
Well, quite apart from anything else, there's an enormous amount of architecture and sculpture in Faust.
You know, actually, a lot of the dynamics of that work were as a result as much of the structure you had built, the physical structure you built, as the performance structures that you built.
And the two were utterly interrelated again.
You've already mentioned a couple, but which contemporary artist do you most admire?
This is Arthur Jaffer.
But it's interesting in the case of Cameron Rowland and Tino Seagal and Arthur Jaffer, because in various ways they have shown signs of kind of refusal towards the conventions of the art world.
I would group you in a similar way with them because there is an element in which by the very broad ranging polyphonous nature of your practice, you're saying you can't categorize me and I'm not going to let you.
But, you know, all of those artists in different ways have subverted art world norms.
And so have you, it seems to me.
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