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Plaster weld dealers1/20/2024 ![]() ![]() LS: This is a great time to be making art. Do you have a routine planned for that time? Are you allowed to communicate in other way? It is a scientific method and I am in awe of SahdGuru’s dedication to the well being of humanity. LS: I brought paper and watercolors so I’ve been drawing but really this Hatha yoga and Settha - ancient natural medicine- begins to open up your Nadis and your existence is transformed to one of unbounded love and awareness. L+T: What’s the premise for the short film on Sahdguru? I’m making a short film about the schools Isha Vidya has set up for children from rural villages who would not get an education other wise and preparing my system for eight days of silence (at the) end of February with a daily eight hour practice, devotion and raw food. It is a volunteered based program at the Velliangiri foothills near Coimbatore where the deity Shiva once walked in these mountains and the feeling is exuberant with mystery. It is structured in such a way that all that you have sparkling begins to shine and any thing dark is dispelled, this is the definition of the word GURU and his blessing. Doing spiritual studied and a mind altering practice I learned through Sahdguru’s teachings in an ashram near southern India called the ISHA Foundation. LS: I am writing you from heaven on earth. I admire how outspoken he is, that he says what he thinks and listens to himself. It’s almost as if he is consecrating what he touches and thousands of years are coming through him. He is committed to art and nothing else in a very spiritual way. I like that he breaks the conventions of paint on canvas. Dad uses materials off the beaten path - army tarps, velvet, maps, found objects, subversive materials. LS: My pops has an unbounded force within him that connects him to all my art gods - Caravaggio, Duchamp, Holbein, Katsuo Ohno the Butoh dancer, Andrei Tarkovsky, Sergaii Parajanov,, Brueghel - to name a few. How has your father influenced you and your work? Other major personal influences? L+T: People will naturally draw connections between you and your father, Julian, who also a painter. So I went to Benjamin Moore and picked up a sponge brush and a bucket of plaster weld. I had seen little pink corners in a house under construction and wondered what that color came. LS: I’m a wrangler of stuff and often look in hardware stores or off the beaten path for effects I see on ruins or demonstrated stains in the world outside my studio to replicate. How did you develop your process for working with these materials? L+T: You worked with bleached linen and rabbit glue, asphalt, plaster weld, and copper plating solution. I knew the mood of the pictures would be set by that limitation repeated. I wanted to pick out my ingredients and by containing myself with those go inside and out of that possibility. LS: Setting boundaries making a clear deduction to stop somewhere allows you to be more free. How did you select your color palette and what led you to five? L+T: I read that you limited your palette to five colors in the tradition of the Spanish Romantics. Say with an animal or nature while having, the elements -water sky and the horizon as a backdrop. It was a surrogate to explore the other kind of relationships love can be imbued in. I had been shown this film in Rome when I was 14 by the artist Luigi Ontani and in my memory had remembered it as a film about hermaphrodites. Lola Montes Schnabel: The narrative for the suite of paintings comes from a Greek film from 1968 called Young Aphrodite. Where did the narrative start for you? Did you travel to this island? Life+Times: In the show “Love Before Intimacy” at the Hole Gallery, you’ve constructed a narrative of androgynous youth on a remote Greek island. She spoke to Life + Times before taking a vow for ten days of silence in India. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Lola is her own woman, who turns to Spanish Romanticism and the Butoh dancer Katsuo Ohno for inspiration. Her brother Vito is an art dealer and her sister Stella is an actress. She is the daughter of artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel and fashion designer Jacqueline Schnabel. Schnabel has been in the limelight for most of her life. The work is made up of an electric pink, sea green, soft purple, chartreuse, and black. She produced five paintings using a five-color palette for the show. Lola Montes Schnabel’s first solo exhibition of paintings “Love Before Intimacy” opened at the Hole in New York City in December. ![]()
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