Painting

Pretty much, yeah.

So around this same time, he started a part-time construction business called PDM Contractors, and that stood for Painting, Decorating, and Maintenance.

And this company grew very rapidly, and by 1973, he had quit his job, uh, working as a chef, cook, whatever, uh, to focus solely on this construction business.

But, you know, this guy just, like we said, couldn't help himself.

Number one, keep in mind as we move forward the idea of using this business to procure victims.

That's gonna come up again.

And number two, I think that's a really good point, because, like, Painting, Decorating, Maintenance Contractors is, like, an objectively terrible name for [laughs] a construction company.

Like, you could name it anything, and that's what you came up with? So yeah, it almost seems like-

Um, and what makes you both happy?

Painting.

[laughs] Um, yeah, being in a, being in a moment of complete trance with it, and sort of knowing when something's, when you're in that lift, and then afterwards when you're, when you look at it and it's, you've done something that I feel surprised by, that, that I don't understand how it's made itself almost.

Yeah.

Neat to have you in.

The album's out October 2nd, and that track was called Painting.

Catch you next time, guys, and enjoy the tour.

Thank you very much,

I will go.

Painting in a Sedan Car Last winter, while motoring on Long Island, I spied, in a distance, near a little frozen stream, a few sticks and a bundle of clothing.

And as we came nearer, observed that the sticks were an easel, and the bundle of clothes was an artist.

His feet were deep in the snow, his hands were covered with heavy cloth gloves, and on his shivering knees rested a box of colors.

A true polymath, my guest is an artist, musician and philosopher whose work spans genres from neo-expressionism to photorealism.

His award-winning paintings are represented in major public collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery of Australia, the National Portrait Gallery in London and even the Throne Room of Buckingham Palace.

His portraits and contemporary works have been featured across television, radio and documentary programs on major international networks, earning him a reputation as one of the most distinguished contemporary artists working today.

Yet his creativity extends far beyond the canvas.

Well, it depends when in that decade you're talking about, but it did get progressively more and more crazy.

The better that we all did, the more partying there was.

And also, I mean, you know, there was a moment when the Metropolitan Museum chief curator came down and bought a couple of paintings of mine for the permanent collection.

And then suddenly, you know, you're treated like a rock star.

啊。

但我不会这样答，因为油画这个字，oil painting 这个 term 是很多 framework 在里的，是很多 default 的东西在里的。但很有趣的就是我们生活，人与人沟通，或者整个社会里面很需要这些 framework，没有这些 framework，没有这些 common language 的话呢，其实很难去到沟通喔。但是创作，我社会强烈那种模糊性或者暧昧性 ambiguity，这件事是存在的嘛。所以刚才你见到我这张到底是绘画还是摄影呢，在介乎两者之间，互为去到穿插的时候，那，那这些 framework 是什么来的呢？我们为什么要需要呢？但创作人其实很不想有这些 framework 的喔，那么怎样去处理呢？这个其实已经是我常年要想的其中一个问题啰。

嗯。我又，我又 get 到一些东西，我又 get 到一些东西，就是，呃，就是那个，我听下去，当你讲的时候，听下去就是其实好像每个人都很想了解大家。

嗯。

是啦，但是呢，其实我不是一个绿像艺术家来的，我仍然坚持我还是一个画画的人。但去到绿像一个屏幕的时候，怎样去到跟绘画去到一些的拉拉呢？所以我就将一些，呃，我日常拍到的照片印出来，印出来之后呢，就在照片上面再画啦。

嗯。

就是将它一个 image 变成一个 painting，再 scan 下去，再叫人帮忙去到做一条影片。

嗯。

. . Hello and welcome to the final episode of 10 Texts on Painting with Matthew de Kersaint-Giraudot.

That's me and Andrea Franchi who will join me when the episode starts.

This week's subject is painting and pedagogy.

Painting and teaching, painting and education, whatever you call it, that's what it is.

We get into details about the texts right at the start of the episode itself.

So I won't spend too much time on it.

I'll just say that we read an article from the Freelance Foundation called Painting Education in UK Higher Education 1950s Until Today by Matthew McCauley and Sylvie Jacoby.

We read sections from Mira Shaw's book Painting.

Later that year, her first European solo exhibition, Reverse Universe, opened at Montiate in Rome and was selected by Exhibit Art as a Must See exhibition.

in 2025 she was selected for a solo presentation at the art fair in boulogne and kiwa is exhibited at mindy solomon gallery chart fergus mcafree terry goldberg montiate ortega gasse projects call gallery and other venues in the u.s europe and asia she was nominated for the sovereign asian art prize in 2018 and was named one of our cubes discovery's top 100 early career artists for 2324.

Her work has been featured in Art Forum, Artsy, Art Tribune, New American Paintings, Two Coats of Paint, Vulture, Asian Art News, and Harper's Bazaar, amongst other publications.

Her paintings are held in the Morgan Stanley Art Collection and private collections internationally.

Kiwa and I talk about living in several countries, pattern, reverse light and perspective, color, music, punching through from the back, and much more.

Even if you should.

Well, I think with the Pintar game, they actually did.

I think that's the only one in history of sports I ever watched.

If you remember, they replayed the game the next day and they actually gave Brett the home run because of the Pintar.

Go look it up.

Youngers, you never know.

Go look up George Brett, the Pintar guy in Yankee Stadium sometime in the 80s in July where there was no replay back in the 80s.

And basically, it was some stupid rule about George Brett not having the Pintar above the trademark.