Purple Magazine
— The Brain Issue #33 S/S 2020

harold ancart

ART interview by EMILIEN CRESPO and OLIVIER ZAHM portrait by OLIVIER ZAHM painting almost died in the ’90s and came back as a powerful, fresh medium for a new generation of artists. we asked a successful young belgian painter based in new york about this explosive rebirth and if there’s such a thing as a painter’s brain OLIVIER ZAHM — There’s been a massive comeback of painting over the past decade. There are paintings everywhere today. For a moment there, it was dying… HAROLD ANCART — Considered dead, even. OLIVIER ZAHM — Exactly. And artists were deconstructing painting, using painting as a reference, but not actually painting as such. HAROLD ANCART — Yeah. Like Daniel Buren with BMPT [a Paris-based art group made up of Daniel Buren, Olivier Mosset, Michel Parmentier, and Niele Toroni]. OLIVIER ZAHM — Voilà. That was some serious deconstruction, using the instrument of the painter as…

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