Conversation between Philip Tonda and Carlos Noronha Feio
“In my work, I like to strip down images of all meanings and show the Real”
 
Photo: Rug (2010) by Carlos Noronha Feio.
P T: Where are you right now?
C N F: Home, in London.
P T: What are you currently occupied with?
C N F: I’m currently doing some research [...]

As part of the exhibition “Between Our Eyes”, artist and curator Philip Tonda asked 3 people to pose questions about his latest work: Artist / photographer Christophe Beauregard, Artist / art critic Joël Riff and artist / curator Charlotte Seidel. Here you can see this special interview, composed by 3 different interviewers.:
You can look at [...]

‘I want to touch people with my work’
A conservation between Philip Tonda and the Belgium based artist Nathalie Vanheule. She spent half a year working in Paris where she experienced the locals lack of colour-use which influenced her work in a direct way. She’s now back in Kortijk, Belgium, where she, 9 months pregnant, continues her work with high [...]

Giorgio Sadotti, Whitechapel, London:

Photo from Giorgio Sadottis performance FLOWER SSNAKE (spells like tree spirit). Photo by Tate Britain.
What are you currently occupied with?
Several things occupy my time at the moment which is normal for me. Preeminently I am working on building a monster from various body part’s that I have asked other artist’s to author. [...]

BRIEF CONVERSATIONS is a new feature replacing IN THE ENVELOPE.
BRIEF CONVERSATIONS will on a regular base offer small interviews/ brief conversations between Philip Tonda and an artist or other person working in the field of art.
The conversations will be shown here on the front page and renewed regularly.

See a video clip HERE from the vernissage of DEVILS IN DISGUISE by Christophe Beauregard.
INTERVIEW:
If you are interested in reading the conversation between Philip Tonda and Christophe Beauregard that took place on the day of the exhibition opening, then you can find it HERE

“IN THE ENVELOPE” has been changed into “BRIEF CONVERSATIONS”:
Instead of the questions, there will here be posted small interviews with artists (and other people working with art) on a regular base.

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IN THE ENVELOPE…is a series of questions asked online by artists, curators and writers to anyone visiting this web site. Click on the particular question to [...]

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SHOULD NON-WESTERN ART BE “FOLK-ART”?

SHOULD ART BE VISIBLE?

IS ART BETTER IN THE COLD COUNTRIES?

SHALL WE BRING ART OUT INTO THE STREETS?

WHERE IS YOUR OLD WORK NOW?

MUST ART BE BEAUTIFUL?  And what about the artist, should he/she be beautiful as well?

IS ART SOMETHING WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT?

SHOULD ART BE SUBSIDIZED BY THE GOVERNMENT?

WHAT MAKES SOMETHING ART, AND WHAT MAKES IT A COMMERCIAL FORM OF ART?

IS GOOD CURATING NECESSARY?

WHAT WOULD BE THE VERY PERFECT CONDITION FOR EXHIBITING ONE OF YOUR ART WORKS? (If any place would be possible without restrictions).