Love[f]Art #07 | Tony Albert

https://www.loveart.com/lovefart/article/love-f-art-07Hosted by Amanda Love, the LoveArt podcast brings listeners into direct conversation with contemporary artists, extending the work of the independent art advisory, LoveArt, based in Sydney, New York and Athens.The series draws from Love[f]Art, LoveArt’s ongoing program of intimate, in-conversation recordings with artists, originally conceived in 2020. Filmed in the most unlikely of settings—the guest powder room at the Love residence—the project strips things back to a one-to-one exchange, focusing on ideas, process and the conditions that shape contemporary practice.This episode features Tony Albert’s Interior Composition Tile, an extension of Albert’s Conversations with Margaret Preston series which dissects 20th-century Australian artist Margaret Preston’s iconography with a reverse ethnography. Drawing on both personal and collective histories, Albert explores the ways in which optimism might be utilised to overcome adversity.Recorded in March 2022, at the time of the work’s installation, the conversation offers a direct insight into the thinking behind the piece, and the broader concerns that underpin his practice.Tony Albert is represented by Sullivan+Strumpf.Additional information, including the video version of this podcast, is available here.