FRAME BY FRAME
— NEXT COMES ACTION
ART
Go behind the scenes of Art Dubai to meet Farshad Farzankia, a rising star of the art world with a cinematic eye and a dreamer’s heart. The Danish Iranian artist created a series of drawings especially for the premiere issue of Ark Journal, and invited us into his Copenhagen studio for a talk about his urge to devour images and how to be present in the instance of painting.
“I WORK A LOT WITH THE SUBCONSCIOUS BEING WHERE IT’S AT IN THE INSTANCE OF PAINTING. IT TAKES A LONG TIME TO GET IN A STATE WHERE THERE’S SOMETHING WORTH EXPLORING AND HOLDING ONTO.”
This story is featured in Ark Journal VOL I
WORDS ALISA LARSEN
PHOTOGRAPHY/VIDEO PAW GISSEL
BETWEEN MEMORY AND MATTER
In Tashkent, a 1912 diesel station has been transformed by Studio KO into Uzbekistan’s first permanent centre for contemporary art — a place where history, material and contemporary culture meet.
MARFA MANIFESTATION: Donald Judd’s Marfa buildings restored through measured restraint
In the small town of Marfa, Texas, the Judd Foundation cares for 22 buildings acquired by Donald Judd and, since his death in 1994, has preserved them according to his artistic and architectural thinking.
MARAZZI, SHAPING INNOVATION THROUGH CERAMIC CRAFT
In the language of surfaces, few materials carry both memory and modernity as effortlessly as ceramic. For Marazzi, this duality has long defined its approach, an enduring dialogue between industrial precision and the human hand, between innovation and heritage.
FRAME BY FRAME
— NEXT COMES ACTION
art
Go behind the scenes of Art Dubai to meet Farshad Farzankia, a rising star of the art world with a cinematic eye and a dreamer’s heart. The Danish Iranian artist created a series of drawings especially for the premiere issue of Ark Journal, and invited us into his Copenhagen studio for a talk about his urge to devour images and how to be present in the instance of painting.
“I WORK A LOT WITH THE SUBCONSCIOUS BEING WHERE IT’S AT IN THE INSTANCE OF PAINTING. IT TAKES A LONG TIME TO GET IN A STATE WHERE THERE’S SOMETHING WORTH EXPLORING AND HOLDING ONTO.”
This story is featured in Ark Journal VOL I