I think again is informed though by something like Perajanov and perhaps goes back to when Lovecraft writes on the supernatural literature. Going back to film experiences as a child I remember watching Mascot the Red Death and the Roger Corman film which I found absolutely if you if you see that you can see their influence on me. What music or other audio do you listen to while you're working? Yeah I listen to all sorts of really ultimately because sometimes I wish I had more time you know to find out more things but I mean I know that the intensity when you're making works in space are very intense.
Ben Luke talks to Mike Nelson about his influences—from the worlds of literature, film, music and, of course, art—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work. Nelson, born in 1967 in Loughborough in the UK, is one of the most significant British sculptors and installation artists of this century. He has spent the past three decades assembling materials gathered in junkyards, flea markets, online auctions, even street-corner fly tips into often labyrinthine sculptural environments. He creates distinctive spaces that suggest fictional (and often science-fictional) narratives, while alluding to diverse histories, obscure countercultural or political movements and current affairs as well as his own biography. He discusses the early influence of Graham Sutherland and Francis Bacon, his elation at discovering the work of Paul Thek, how fiction—and science-fiction writers like Stanislaw Lem, J.G. Ballard and the Strugatsky brothers—liberated his approach to art making, and the enduring influence of film-makers including Jean-Luc Godard and Sergei Parajanov.
Mike Nelson: Extinction Beckons, Hayward Gallery, London, until 7 May.
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