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Soundsuit #6 by Nick Cave
A Proust Questionnaire is a questionnaire about one’s personality. Its name and modern popularity as a form of interview is owed to the responses given by the French writer Marcel Proust. Inspired by the popularity and quirkiness of Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire, the editors of Artspace composed one to reveal another side of their favorite artists. Shortened versions can be found on several of the Artspace artist pages, and from time to time we’ll run the complete interviews on A+. Our nineteenth artist is Nick Cave, whose first love was Amsterdam.
Interdit, 2011by Julie Graham
A Proust Questionnaire is a questionnaire about one’s personality. Its name and modern popularity as a form of interview is owed to the responses given by the French writer Marcel Proust. Inspired by the popularity and quirkiness of Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire, the editors of Artspace composed one to reveal another side of their favorite artists. Shortened versions can be found on several of the Artspace artist pages, and from time to time we’ll run the complete interviews on A+. Our sixteenth artist is Julie Graham, whose dream holiday would be “in a foreign country with lots of light and open spaces, exotic sites and smells…”
Anselm Kiefer, La Berceuse (for Van Gogh), 2010 (detail). Photo Myra May
Commissioned to create a work in response to Rembrandt van Rijn’s most famous painting, The Night Watch, at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, German contemporary artist Anselm Kiefer invited controversy by instead making an installation of three glass-and-steel vitrines, filled with objects that reference the Netherlands’ other influential artist, Vincent van Gogh. Kiefer’s monumental triptych, La Berceuse (for Van Gogh), addresses the work of Van Gogh through his portrait of Augustine Roulin, the wife of the postmaster of Arles, and paintings of sunflowers from the same period, while reflecting Rembrandt’s heroic portrayal of 17th-century Dutch militiamen, which hangs opposite, in its glass.