Frieze Masters Podcast 2024, Episode 6: Pictorial Language + Poetic Translations
Dia al-Azzawi, Glenn Ligon and Zoé Whitley look at the word in visual art, presented in collaboration with dunhill
Dia al-Azzawi, Glenn Ligon and Zoé Whitley look at the word in visual art, presented in collaboration with dunhill
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‘If I can let the viewer stand in front of my painting and question – if they can ask a question – this is success.’ – Glenn Ligon
How does the written and spoken word relate to the visual language of painting, sculpture and installation? To discuss this connection and the power and potential of poetry, the sixth episode of the Frieze Masters Podcast brings together artists Glenn Ligon and Dia al-Azzawi and Chisenhale Director Zoé Whitley.
Glenn Ligon is a New York-based artist whose career has explored history, literature and society through painting and conceptual art; Dia al-Azzawi is now a central figure in the development of modernist art in the Arab world; and Zoé Whitley is Director of the non-profit Chisenhale Gallery in London.
About Frieze Masters Podcast
The Frieze Masters Podcast is back for 2024, bringing you the annual Frieze Masters Talks programme recorded during this year’s fair. The series of seven discussions was curated by Sheena Wagstaff and Shanay Jhaveri, with the title ‘The Creative Mind’, and features 21 intergenerational and international speakers exploring how the art of the past can help make sense of the present.
The series includes topics ‘The State We’re In’, ‘The Faces of Community’ and ‘The Power of Painting’, with speakers ranging from artists – Nairy Baghramian, Jeremy Deller, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Shirazeh Houshiary, Mark Leckey, Glenn Ligon, Ming Smith – to curators such as Gabriele Finaldi, Glenn Lowry and Victoria Siddall, plus writers, thinkers, architects and politicians.
Listen now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
The Frieze Masters Talks programme and the Frieze Masters Podcast are brought to you by Frieze in collaboration with dunhill.
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Main Image: Dia al-Azzawi, The Ode of al-Harith Bin Hilza, 1980. Gouache on paper, 140 × 118 cm. Courtesy: the artist and Kinda Foundation
