{"id":1730,"date":"2022-02-07T13:49:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T12:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gloria.prinzdesign-berlin.de\/2012-letter-from-london-an-interview-with-gloria-zein-on-dancing-chickens-and-german-art-matthew-rose\/"},"modified":"2022-02-14T14:53:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T13:53:24","slug":"2012-letter-from-london-an-interview-with-gloria-zein-on-dancing-chickens-and-german-art-matthew-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloria-zein.com\/en\/2012-letter-from-london-an-interview-with-gloria-zein-on-dancing-chickens-and-german-art-matthew-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 \u2013 Letter From London – An interview with Gloria Zein, on dancing chickens and German art \u2013 Matthew Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Letter From London – An interview with Gloria Zein, on dancing chickens and German art \u2013 by Matthew Rose<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

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n 1998 I met the German artist Gloria Zein in Paris.\u00a0 We were on the street near my house in the 14th arrondissement.\u00a0 She handed me a postcard. It was a cross between a BYOA (Bring Your Own Artwork) and dinner at her house in Paris: one had to cut a circle out of her card and insert a \u201csign of our existence\u201d into it \u2013 an assignment with tape, staples or whatever was handy.\u00a0 Since then I have been following Gloria\u2019s career with wonder. (…)<\/p>\n

This interview is not conclusive, but with the installation of Zein\u2019s work at the Goethe-Institut on Exhibition Road in London \u2013 inside and out \u2013 it\u2019s hard to ignore this German artist who speaks four languages and lives in an increasingly networked world.\u00a0 All this in spite of the fact that she has a penchant for creating both quiet conceptual works and quite loud in-your-face monumental sculptures. The interview that follows was conducted via e mail and a bit of telephone….<\/p>\n

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GZ: I\u2019ve been exploring a participatory approach to art making for quite a while. For the Goethe-Institut project I interviewed every employee, from the receptionist, the librarian and cleaning staff to the German teachers, the cultural department workers and the director to understand the structure of the Institute before designing and dedicating a small sculpture for each function.
\nThis Goethe-Institut commission came at a perfect time, as it allowed me to closely weave these interests with my sculptural practice: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloria-zein.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloria-zein.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloria-zein.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloria-zein.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloria-zein.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloria-zein.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1731,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloria-zein.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions\/1731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloria-zein.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloria-zein.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloria-zein.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}