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Peter Joseph
This short film was made in 2017, in preparation for Peter Joseph’s first New York show and was recorded at his home and studio. He discusses the influences of literature and philosophy on his practice, as well as the impossibility of using words to describe his artistic process: “The language itself is, is hopeless to explain the kind of feelings that you can find in painting. I needed something which to me was magic, it was the possibility of an endless wealth, of tone, light.” Joseph sadly died before he could see his long-planned second show, opening in New York on 16 February, but to celebrate we have also released an excerpt of a conversation conducted by Hans Ulrich Obrist, in which he discusses the genesis of his early paintings.
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